What did you shoot today?

[Jeff62]

I did some casual plinking down by my pond with my old Hi Standard Double 9 .22 and my Ruger Vaquero 45lc. I’m trying to re acquire off hand shooting skills. I made a left handed holster for the Vaquero and the Hi Standard fits though a bit loose.
I’m not ready to share a target photo but I think I shot pretty well.

 

[DustyGmt]

Shot my trap grade Wingmaster 870TB for the first time this year, haven't shot trap since last fall. I don't know why but I thought I was going to shoot straight 25's, as much as I envisioned it and imagined it over the last 5+ months

I shot a 18/25 1st round, 17/25 2nd round, 20/25 3rd round and a 22/25 on the last round. Not too terrible for being out of practice, it wasn't very impressive but it felt good. Can't wait to do it twice a week for the next 15-20 weeks..... spring is here, yaay!


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[Big44mag]

A little plinking last night with these four.

1) Weatherby Mark V Accumark in 300 Wby
2) 1886 Browning in 45/70
3) Wildey 6" in 45 Win Mag
4) Canik TP9 Elite Combat in 9mm

 

[wiscoaster]

Live-fire function test of my "new" Swede Mauser M38 1942 Husqvarna made round holes in a tight pattern at 25 yds inside range. Now I need to take the new guy to an outdoor range and see how it does at 100 yds against its big brother, my 1915 Carl Gustav M96.

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BTW, anyone here know any Swedish? I need to try and figure out what the placard says.

 

[Mars5l]

Live-fire function test of my "new" Swede Mauser M38 1942 Husqvarna made round holes in a tight pattern at 25 yds inside range. Now I need to take the new guy to an outdoor range and see how it does at 100 yds against its big brother, my 1915 Carl Gustav M96.

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BTW, anyone here know any Swedish? I need to try and figure out what the placard says.

The original sights were set for a round nose bullet. The 6.5x55 was updated to a Spitzer round and rather than change the sights completely they just added a placard that tells you were to hold. Probably won't matter much til you start to stretch the distance

 

[wiscoaster]

The original sights were set for a round nose bullet. The 6.5x55 was updated to a Spitzer round and rather than change the sights completely they just added a placard that tells you were to hold. Probably won't matter much til you start to stretch the distance

This rifle has the original 600 meter rear sight, not the "T" marked sights for the Spitzer bullet, and therefore the need for the placard at the longer ranges. With a manufacture date of 1942 I don't know why. My 1915 M96 has a "T" front sight and a disc "Overslag" of "0", but I suppose that's an arsenal retrofit. This M38's front sight is marked "50" and the disc "Overslag" is unmarked, so I'm guessing that's the offset into the placard's table. If I'm reading the table right, the hold-over for that front sight is zero. In other words, much ado about nothing. We'll find out when we get out to the outdoor range......

 

[hso]

Tossed the suppressor on the Ruger 22/45 and poked holes in paper and made steel sing. I'd almost forgotten how much fun that was.

 

[DustyGmt]

Live-fire function test of my "new" Swede Mauser M38 1942 Husqvarna made round holes in a tight pattern at 25 yds inside range. Now I need to take the new guy to an outdoor range and see how it does at 100 yds against its big brother, my 1915 Carl Gustav M96.

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BTW, anyone here know any Swedish? I need to try and figure out what the placard says.

There is an App and some websites have a translator/alphabet for the desired language text. Like for instance you would enter the characters/letters on the placard into the window and hit enter and it will give you the English translation. Pretty neat. I don't have a link but it should be pretty easy to find.i didn't have to sign up or create an account t or anything

 

[CoalCrackerAl]

We took a hike today. And i like to shoot at stuff the ATV'S drop along the trails. I used my Rossi gallery gun. Nice light little rifle to carry on a hike.

 

[.308 Norma]

That was my wife and her Ruger "American Rimfire" .22LR this morning. There was about to be one less ground squirrel (out of thousands) over on our friend's ranch.

 

[1976B.L.Johns.]

one less ground squirrel

Yeah........evil little garden raiding blankity blanks!

 

[.308 Norma]

Yeah........evil little garden raiding blankity blanks!

Yeppers, or in our rancher friend's case, "evil little hole and tunnel digging blankity blanks" that make traps for horses and cattle to step in.

 

[Trey Veston]

Glock G35 and G23 at a GSSF match on Saturday...



Then shot my buffalo rifle on Sunday to try and get it dialed in...

 

[tws3b2]

Today I shot my Taurus g3c, s&w 642-1, Remington 550-1 and my Winchester 94 30-30. A good day in my book. The Remington 550-1 was Extra sweet. And, I love shooting the 94 30-30. A Great Day.

 

[Ignition Override]

My PTR-91, a clone of the civilian semi-auto HK-91 version. The HKs and PTR "classic GI" versions look identical to this military G3..other than the newer style of handguards.

The 'policy' is to answer the question and provide a little visual appeal (for most guys).

based on many complaints---many American men can't seem to handle the HK-91 clone/PTR-91 (HK clone)....on Semi-auto.....

 

[44caliberkid]

I took out two 1893 Spanish Mauser carbines, 7x57, one with a sporterized stock, but still the military barrel and sights. The other has a replacement commercial barrel and nicely Mannlicher stocked, drilled and tapped for a 3x9 scope. To finish up I ran a few rounds through a Colt Official Police in 32-20.

 

[wiscoaster]

Another "Big brother and little brother" theme range day today, with the Arisaka Type 38 brothers - that would be big bro on the left, a Type 38 long rifle, Koishikawa, series none (ie presumed pre-1933 per serial number), and lil bro on the right, a Type 38 carbine, Kokura, second series, presumed ca 1940 per serial number:

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I only had 15 rounds of 6.5 x 50 Jap left for the boys to play with, so shot three apiece at 50 yds to get a feel for where they were hitting for POA, three more apiece at 100 yds to confirm, then rang a few steels at 100 yds with big bro using up the last of the ammo.

 

[Ignition Override]

Czechpoint VZ-58 (7.62x39).

PTR-91 , 'A3SK' (.308).

 

[wiscoaster]

Needed to get some distraction and release some frustrations over a bass guitar mod project throwing me some annoying problems, er ... challenges ... so took one of my more "ordinary" rifles out to the range to make some noise and destroy some targets: my AR-15 with the 300 Blackout upper. Reason I chose that upper is because I have plenty of 300 AAC ammo to waste, and also the store shelves around here seem to be overflowing with it lately, so I have no worries about replacing what I shot. Had a good time and wasted several boxes of 300 AAC.

 

[AzShooter1]

Spent the morning with my favorite revolver and a good friend.

He has only been out of his house when I've taken him to the range, since the pandemic. Every two weeks I make sure he gets some fun.

Yesterday I did a little work on my 617 's trigger. With the shortage of ammo I decided I wanted it to work with all the .22 ammo I have stored over the years. The trigger is very smooth and very light, averaging just over 7 pounds double action using my Lyman digital scale.

I was running 6.5 pounds but today I had a few rounds not go off so I increased the strain screw to get 7.5 pounds. After than I fired a variety of ammo, CCI Mini Mags, Eley Force, Federal 800 round blue box and CCI Blazer with no problems.

I even tested single action and it's amazing. Weighs 1 pound 7 ounces. I passed my gun to my friend for him to test it and he couldn't shoot it double action. At 75 we are not as healthy as we once were. When I told him to try the single action he was impressed. It's better than his Browning Buckmark.

 

[Mars5l]

Mostly successful range day. Got new firing pins for my "last ditch" Type 99 Arisaka, also got a used but working firing pin for my 1895 Chilean Mauser, my m96 Swedish Mauser and my Italian Carcano carbine to try new ammo with. New firing pins were working. Hit paper fine, forgot a clip for my Carcano so I had to hand feed ammo one by one. Let some ppl at the range take a shot with them.

 

[jonnyc]

Fun day, but not too accurate. Shot an Israeli .308 Mauser, Mannlicher M95 Long Rifle, and my KT P17.
Any range day is a good day.

 

[wiscoaster]

.... forgot a clip for my Carcano so I had to hand feed ammo one by one. ....

Please don't do that. You might break the extractor. And they're not easily replaced. You can get away with that on a Mauser, but the Carcano's extractor isn't strong enough to take getting forced over a chambered rim on a routine basis.

 

[Mars5l]

Please don't do that. You might break the extractor. And they're not easily replaced. You can get away with that on a Mauser, but the Carcano's extractor isn't strong enough to take getting forced over a chambered rim on a routine basis.

I know you can damage but I wasn't trying to push it over the rim. I was holding the cartridge down in the magazine well against the spring and letting it come up into the groove in the bolt face then it would chamber smoothly.

 

[wiscoaster]

I was holding the cartridge down in the magazine well against the spring and letting it come up into the groove in the bolt face then it would chamber smoothly.

I guess you have more finger dexterity than I do.

I've even gone so far as to remove the bolt, clip the round into the bolt face and reinsert the bolt with round attached.

I have one Carcano, a 91 T/S, that I turned into a parts gun because the extractor was chipped and I broke it trying to remove and replace it. It was frozen into the bolt. (It was already chipped when I got it). So maybe that makes me overly-sensitive on the topic of Carcano extractors.