Demi-human
maybe likes firearms a little bit…
It was a nice day, so after blowing four inches of fresh snow I went out yesterday to plink with my 1911 and try out a new trigger on my 450 Bushmaster AR.
I set my Champion spinner at the base of a removed stump that had been dropped off on the berm out at the forest turn around. I bounced between the two bottom ones, pelting them with 200 grain SWCs from two ten round magazines. Then I put a seven in and shot the top target, very slowly. Darn fine group at twenty five yards.
Then I sat in the truck to warm my hands. I got out the AR twenty rounders and loaded them up. Only five rounds of Bushmaster fit in those. I drove the truck another thirty or so yards away from the target berm.
I had a target a foot away and at least two feet higher than the steel, pinned to the stump, a three foot wide birch.
The new trigger on this AR is a CMC straight bow @ 2.5lbs. I like the little ledge at the bottom.
The first magazine went well. But the trigger didn’t feel wonderful. Not much different than the five pound binary I was using last week on a rimfire.
On the second shot of the third magazine I had a jam. I looked and yup, this is that blued mag I bought specifically for the Bushmaster, made by Bushmaster rather than modified by myself, and always gives me problems. I think I’m going to smash it.
After fiddling with that for a moment, I righted the rifle and began my sweep from low right to upper left at the target.
>BOOM!<
Dang! That was early! A lot!
Whether it settled in or the time spent with the jamb softened some grease I hadn’t removed, the trigger was now very light!
I scanned the snow in front of me, that’s how wrong and early it felt. No marks.
Had I been using iron sights, instead of a new Crossfire II scope I would have seen the show…
In spite of the obvious contact, that is an embarrassing miss!
Gah! That’s my favorite target! My Dad got me that. I’ve repainted the whole thing barbecue black twice!
The paddle is bent backwards and to the right, both at about 20*. The marks on the target paper and tree show it was spun around and flung three feet back at the tree, tearing through the target bottom. The 250 grain Speer at over twice the speed of sound ruined the top paddle. The cavernous Hollow-point left a sharp point in the middle I drew blood on while admiring it. There are cracks in the back, it almost made it through!
With luck I can straighten, pound it flat, and weld shut the divot.
Crestfallen, I called it a day, with more than a hundred rounds of 45 Auto left.
I was so mad at me I forgot to take a photo of the rifle target, it was quite good. My hand could cover it, taking out the target killing one foot flier, of course.
The spot of lead smear at the top of the paddle and one just to the right was the seven shots from the Dan Wesson. Man, I love that pistol!
Not so sure about the AR trigger. I have several and really like them. This is my lightest CMC, but not my lightest trigger. Hopefully it was just a goof of being new and cold out.
So, the moral of this long winded story is,
Never put anything down range you’ll miss if it’s
Destroyed!
And also, a bad day shooting beats a good day shoveling.
Have you any hit-targets-that-were-really-misses stories?
I set my Champion spinner at the base of a removed stump that had been dropped off on the berm out at the forest turn around. I bounced between the two bottom ones, pelting them with 200 grain SWCs from two ten round magazines. Then I put a seven in and shot the top target, very slowly. Darn fine group at twenty five yards.
Then I sat in the truck to warm my hands. I got out the AR twenty rounders and loaded them up. Only five rounds of Bushmaster fit in those. I drove the truck another thirty or so yards away from the target berm.
I had a target a foot away and at least two feet higher than the steel, pinned to the stump, a three foot wide birch.
The new trigger on this AR is a CMC straight bow @ 2.5lbs. I like the little ledge at the bottom.
The first magazine went well. But the trigger didn’t feel wonderful. Not much different than the five pound binary I was using last week on a rimfire.
On the second shot of the third magazine I had a jam. I looked and yup, this is that blued mag I bought specifically for the Bushmaster, made by Bushmaster rather than modified by myself, and always gives me problems. I think I’m going to smash it.
After fiddling with that for a moment, I righted the rifle and began my sweep from low right to upper left at the target.
>BOOM!<
Dang! That was early! A lot!
Whether it settled in or the time spent with the jamb softened some grease I hadn’t removed, the trigger was now very light!
I scanned the snow in front of me, that’s how wrong and early it felt. No marks.
Had I been using iron sights, instead of a new Crossfire II scope I would have seen the show…
In spite of the obvious contact, that is an embarrassing miss!
Gah! That’s my favorite target! My Dad got me that. I’ve repainted the whole thing barbecue black twice!
The paddle is bent backwards and to the right, both at about 20*. The marks on the target paper and tree show it was spun around and flung three feet back at the tree, tearing through the target bottom. The 250 grain Speer at over twice the speed of sound ruined the top paddle. The cavernous Hollow-point left a sharp point in the middle I drew blood on while admiring it. There are cracks in the back, it almost made it through!
With luck I can straighten, pound it flat, and weld shut the divot.
Crestfallen, I called it a day, with more than a hundred rounds of 45 Auto left.
I was so mad at me I forgot to take a photo of the rifle target, it was quite good. My hand could cover it, taking out the target killing one foot flier, of course.
The spot of lead smear at the top of the paddle and one just to the right was the seven shots from the Dan Wesson. Man, I love that pistol!
Not so sure about the AR trigger. I have several and really like them. This is my lightest CMC, but not my lightest trigger. Hopefully it was just a goof of being new and cold out.
So, the moral of this long winded story is,
Never put anything down range you’ll miss if it’s
Destroyed!
And also, a bad day shooting beats a good day shoveling.
Have you any hit-targets-that-were-really-misses stories?
