The Model 28-2 is a helluofagun. This is sort of a range report I suppose. I don't have pictures of targets to go along with it, but I took my 28-2 to the range with me yesterday along with 110 wadcutter loads (148 DEWC Berry's over Win 231) and 50 rounds of starting level 357 magnums (158 grain TC Berry's over Win 244). I figured that should hold me long enough for my back to really start hurting and be ready to go.
I started off running a double handful of the wadcutters through my 642 carry gun. It's actually fun to shoot with wadcutters. Now I'm working on being accurate with the little thing. It's a work in progress but coming along nicely.
Then I stapled up a B-27 and ran it out to the twenty yard line. That was a mistake. Between my back hurting, and the red insert front sight blending in perfectly with the red 10/X ring on these targets, I was all over the place. Ran it back in to seven yards. I shoot just for the fun of it and it's more fun to hit what I'm shooting at. That was a big difference (obviously). Suddenly I could see my sights and proceeded to cut the 10/X ring out of a couple of those B-27's. Just left a big hole in the cardboard backing. Those wadcutter loads are FUN in that big gun. Sort of a POP...a little muzzle rise and back on target. I'd load five, shoot five, call the target back, set down on my walker, kick the empties out, put them back in the box, and load five more, check the target and run it out again. When the target got too ragged to tell where I was hitting, I'd change targets. Not very tactical, but almost as much fun as shooting tin cans down on the creek bank.
By the time I got finished with the wadcutters, I was getting a little tired, but wanted to shoot some 357's again, just for grins and giggles. I switched out to smaller target with a couple of IPSC type silioutes on one paper. The magnums had a lot more boom and flash, but shot just about as well. I budgeted 25 per target and didn't do too awful I suppose. The range guys didn't tell me to leave, which is my ultimate measure of success. Actually one of them came over and asked what I was shooting and we talked revolvers a bit.
All the shooting was double action by the way. Since I started really working on DA with my Colt Python, it seems I've forgotten how to shoot SA. Even when I shoot off the bench I use DA.
Anyway, if you've stuck with it this long expecting it to get interesting, I'm sorry. Just an old man talking himself really.
