Riomouse911
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I posted about this invite in another thread, but not this part:
I got invited to a private member-guest range last Friday, and one of my buddies (also a guest) asked me to bring along a Gen 3 Glock 19 and 17, since those are still copasetic in CA and he wanted to try them out before he bought.
So, I threw the 17 and 19 into the pistol case. Then I thought he may like a G-3 Glock 34, so I added that. I tossed in the Glock 44 .22 LR as a training gun, plus I wanted to try out my “bought but still unused” rimfire dueling tree. Well, since that tree was going, in went a Ruger Mark IV with a 5.5” red dot upper and a 10” open sighted one, too.
My buddy has a 1911 .45, so I thought a CZ 75 D compact may be in the mix over the Glock 19, and because those are ok here to buy I brought mine. Then I thought he may like a CZ 75 P-01 over the G-17, so that came along. ( That gun is not on the OK list but the 75B is, and since they are kind of similar, why not? )Then I added an OK to buy, but discontinued, CZ97B .45 as well.
A couple of the members who invited us shoot a lot of 3- gun, IPSC type stuff. Since I had just picked up a CZ Shadow 2, I just had to try that out on plates and move-shoot-move stuff that I can’t do at the indoor range. (Glad I did, I’ll do a post on that gun another time.)
Kimber full size 1911 are OK, so I brought a 9mm Stainless Target II, then I added a commander-sized SR 1911 so he could compare it to his 5” one.
I picked up a 4 5/8” .45 Colt Blackhawk the other day so that came along, and dang it! The .44 Spl. Flattop had to tag along as well.
Then I brought two AR’s, one open sighted with a “Dissipator” 16” upper and one pencil-barrel with a dot. A Ruger PC9 carbine had to come along dince they’re do much fun. My final guns were the CZ 455 and Ruger 10-22 International rimfires (for that tree!)
Along with the rimfire tree, I brought a centerfire tree, a torso sized plate and pipe-rack, two 10” round plates that mount on T posts and a twin idpa-plate/swinging plate stand with a paper target holder I bought from Alco Target. (First time shooting with this one, too.)
I believe brought enough ammo in .30 caliber cans for all these things to give a football lineman a hernia. These weigh a lot when full!
Myself and my friends shot my Glocks and CZ’s, and one buddy and I fired my Ruger Single actions. One other shot several mags through my dot-sighted AR, as I learned my new dissipator was a single shot. I guess the upper wasn’t gassed/buffered right so it fired, extracted, ejected and cocked the action fine, but it never picked up the next round in the magazine.
( I will work on that at a later time.) The PC9 got a good workout. Two of the guys shot one for the first time, and both were ringing steel with every shot fired out to 50 yds and said this was going to be one of their next gun buys (That will make 4 guys that shot it and bought one. I should get a commission.)
It got pretty hot, roughly 90 and zero clouds. By the time we got done running through a bunch of multi-target and steel plate drills, plus other training for two of the guys who aren’t very experienced, we ran out of steam.
Five guns went home dusty but completely untouched; the Ruger Mk IV .22, both 1911’s, and the two rimfire rifles. A couple of others were only fired a few times, the AR, single actions and the CZ 75 compact. Only the PC9, Glocks and the full sized CZ’s were fired a lot.
At least now I know what to expect when (if?) I get to go back to that range with them; I will be bringing fewer guns but more steel plates. (I have almost four milk crates full of them.)
It took a couple of hours to clean and lube them for my next range trip… but it was worth it.
Stay safe.
I got invited to a private member-guest range last Friday, and one of my buddies (also a guest) asked me to bring along a Gen 3 Glock 19 and 17, since those are still copasetic in CA and he wanted to try them out before he bought.
So, I threw the 17 and 19 into the pistol case. Then I thought he may like a G-3 Glock 34, so I added that. I tossed in the Glock 44 .22 LR as a training gun, plus I wanted to try out my “bought but still unused” rimfire dueling tree. Well, since that tree was going, in went a Ruger Mark IV with a 5.5” red dot upper and a 10” open sighted one, too.
My buddy has a 1911 .45, so I thought a CZ 75 D compact may be in the mix over the Glock 19, and because those are ok here to buy I brought mine. Then I thought he may like a CZ 75 P-01 over the G-17, so that came along. ( That gun is not on the OK list but the 75B is, and since they are kind of similar, why not? )Then I added an OK to buy, but discontinued, CZ97B .45 as well.
A couple of the members who invited us shoot a lot of 3- gun, IPSC type stuff. Since I had just picked up a CZ Shadow 2, I just had to try that out on plates and move-shoot-move stuff that I can’t do at the indoor range. (Glad I did, I’ll do a post on that gun another time.)
Kimber full size 1911 are OK, so I brought a 9mm Stainless Target II, then I added a commander-sized SR 1911 so he could compare it to his 5” one.
I picked up a 4 5/8” .45 Colt Blackhawk the other day so that came along, and dang it! The .44 Spl. Flattop had to tag along as well.
Then I brought two AR’s, one open sighted with a “Dissipator” 16” upper and one pencil-barrel with a dot. A Ruger PC9 carbine had to come along dince they’re do much fun. My final guns were the CZ 455 and Ruger 10-22 International rimfires (for that tree!)
Along with the rimfire tree, I brought a centerfire tree, a torso sized plate and pipe-rack, two 10” round plates that mount on T posts and a twin idpa-plate/swinging plate stand with a paper target holder I bought from Alco Target. (First time shooting with this one, too.)
I believe brought enough ammo in .30 caliber cans for all these things to give a football lineman a hernia. These weigh a lot when full!
Myself and my friends shot my Glocks and CZ’s, and one buddy and I fired my Ruger Single actions. One other shot several mags through my dot-sighted AR, as I learned my new dissipator was a single shot. I guess the upper wasn’t gassed/buffered right so it fired, extracted, ejected and cocked the action fine, but it never picked up the next round in the magazine.
( I will work on that at a later time.) The PC9 got a good workout. Two of the guys shot one for the first time, and both were ringing steel with every shot fired out to 50 yds and said this was going to be one of their next gun buys (That will make 4 guys that shot it and bought one. I should get a commission.) It got pretty hot, roughly 90 and zero clouds. By the time we got done running through a bunch of multi-target and steel plate drills, plus other training for two of the guys who aren’t very experienced, we ran out of steam.
Five guns went home dusty but completely untouched; the Ruger Mk IV .22, both 1911’s, and the two rimfire rifles. A couple of others were only fired a few times, the AR, single actions and the CZ 75 compact. Only the PC9, Glocks and the full sized CZ’s were fired a lot.
At least now I know what to expect when (if?) I get to go back to that range with them; I will be bringing fewer guns but more steel plates. (I have almost four milk crates full of them.
)It took a couple of hours to clean and lube them for my next range trip… but it was worth it.
Stay safe.
