I bought an inexpensive H&R 6 inch .22 LR revolver a little while back to just have fun with, as maybe a survival kit gun, for general plinking and of course to try and conserve money on ammo. With price of ammo being what it is it's even getting expensive to shoot 9mm or .38 Special. Only thing is that I didn't have a handgun in .22 LR until I bought this recently.
Anyway, I had a chance to go to the range today after buying some of the cheapest ammo I could find ($8 for 500 rds of Federal Lightening 40 grain Lubricated Lead Round Nose). It didn't do half bad for being an inexpensive gun that you have to practically take apart in order to load (you hit the rod button parallel to the barrel and just underneath it, you pull out the rod and the cylinder comes out completely, you load up the cylinder, replace the cylinder and stick the rod back in through it, you fire the gun until empty and then repeat the process - I used the cylinder rod to knock out some of the stubborn empty cases).
I put up the target at 25 yards since I bought it as kind of a general field/survival type plinker that might end up possibly being used on squirrels and rabbits so I figured that it would be best shot at that range as usually that's about the closest you'll be able to get to small animals. I bought a silhouette type of a target because there's more paper to shoot up. You just pick a different place on the target and then just shoot that part instead as you go instead of constantly aiming for the head or center mass. That's what I do anyway.
The range / The target's 2nd from left.
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I fired one round over the silhouettes shoulder and then just aimed for that bullet hole with the rest.
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Initial shot's 1 inch down from the 'I' and 'G' in the part of the script that says 'Signature' in the sentence 'Range Officers Signature'
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It's not that bad for a 9 shot group with crappy ammo while just screwing around huh? I fired single action, but as soon as the sight was I just fired again and I didn't end up waiting a long time between shots trying to get it perfect. I shot over the shoulder because by that point the target was pretty chewed up and I didn't feel like buying another one and then waiting 15 minutes to put up another one and then waiting 15 minutes more to go down range and grab it.
Anybody else bought an inexpensive .22 LR revolver for the same purpose?
Anyway, I had a chance to go to the range today after buying some of the cheapest ammo I could find ($8 for 500 rds of Federal Lightening 40 grain Lubricated Lead Round Nose). It didn't do half bad for being an inexpensive gun that you have to practically take apart in order to load (you hit the rod button parallel to the barrel and just underneath it, you pull out the rod and the cylinder comes out completely, you load up the cylinder, replace the cylinder and stick the rod back in through it, you fire the gun until empty and then repeat the process - I used the cylinder rod to knock out some of the stubborn empty cases).
I put up the target at 25 yards since I bought it as kind of a general field/survival type plinker that might end up possibly being used on squirrels and rabbits so I figured that it would be best shot at that range as usually that's about the closest you'll be able to get to small animals. I bought a silhouette type of a target because there's more paper to shoot up. You just pick a different place on the target and then just shoot that part instead as you go instead of constantly aiming for the head or center mass. That's what I do anyway.
The range / The target's 2nd from left.
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I fired one round over the silhouettes shoulder and then just aimed for that bullet hole with the rest.
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Initial shot's 1 inch down from the 'I' and 'G' in the part of the script that says 'Signature' in the sentence 'Range Officers Signature'
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It's not that bad for a 9 shot group with crappy ammo while just screwing around huh? I fired single action, but as soon as the sight was I just fired again and I didn't end up waiting a long time between shots trying to get it perfect. I shot over the shoulder because by that point the target was pretty chewed up and I didn't feel like buying another one and then waiting 15 minutes to put up another one and then waiting 15 minutes more to go down range and grab it.
Anybody else bought an inexpensive .22 LR revolver for the same purpose?
