Woohoo! Finally got some range time....

[mfree]

...and it was good. I'd been looking forward to it since I'd made a spring change in my CZ75, I'd thought the factory spring had gotten a little light (10.5 pounds "tested") and stuck a Wolff 20# in it's place.

I also had and have some bad habits to work on. The parallelogram and weaver stances I find damned uncomfortable, and when the CZ went iffy during the last session it fostered a *nasty* flinch.

I worked the flinch out in teh forst 50 rounds or so form my P22. Trouble is, the Walther is beginnign to feel it's "age".... I've had the gun for 3 months now but I'm already edging towards 1000 rounds, should pass that on the next range session. The safety feels looser, and the sights seemed to be drifting along without me. Still, didn't do bad with it, could keep a 4" group at 7 yards on a target I could barely see, moved back to 15 yards with a better target and got good results, picked off some 3x5 index cards at 7 yards, rapid fire, and then just plinked at a 3'x3' target at 25 yards. Mind you, I've got the short version. I did find the barrel had loosened when I got home though.

The P22 burnt me once though, ejection distance was just enough to land the shell on top of my index finger. I felt good that my immediate reflex was to take care of the gun, then shed the burning hot shell.... i didn't even think about it until after I'd done it.

The CZ75's new spring is awesome It feels like it did new..... still flinching a little, and having trouble figuring out my holds and stances. Everything works middling so far, as long as I can remember to squeeze the trigger slowly and be able to not get the shakes, I'm hitting the X-ring at 15 yards easy. Trouble with me is, once I lock my elbow I'm using muscles I haven't built up in a while and the sights start wagging. I've also got terrible eyesight... I keep losing my target in distance fuzziness. Once I figure how to shoot with both eyes open it shouldn't be too much problem (My scrip is -7 spherical in both eyes, even my polycarb glasses are heavy).

Once I got home though, I did something stupid.... I tried to pick up the little zippered bag I was using after I'd unzippered it. Both guns were in there action open with no mags though, but it's still sickening to watch your prized CZ plummet to the floor from 3' up. I did get my foot under it before it struck though... ow. No damage, other than my pride and humility.

Once I field stripped everything, I noticed something odd.... both guns were unusually clean, just a little powder, and the barrels only needed a patch of hoppes and a dry patch each. I 'd put over 400 rounds through the walther, so it had some caked powder on the breech face, but the 75 just had a little dusting of soot. Pretty good for 100 there too.

Can't wait to get an anuual membership to the range... I'd burn 500 round bulk packs through my walther in a heartbeat if I had free range time

 

[halvey]

Sounds like a fun day!

Just make sure when burning bricks of .22 you are still concentrating on your shooting. I used to shoot a LOT per session, but have backed down to 250 rounds or so. Towards the end of my brick, I tended just to shoot and not really work on what I was doing. I hear shooting less rounds per session and increasing your number of sessions is the best.

 

[sturmruger]

You should be able to get a lot more rounds through a P22 then a 1K. All guns go through a break in period I would recomend some lock tite for the sights and maybe disasemble the P22 to see if you can firm up that safety.


I love shooting my .22s and occasionaly will go to the range with nothing but .22s.

 

[Stickjockey]

At 1000 rounds, that gun should just be getting broken in..

 

[mfree]

the action of the gun is breaking in fine, but the fit and finish aren't standing up, that's my beef. it's the cheap plastic bits that are getting me, the safety levers keep loosening and the "adjustable" rear sight was drifting left.

Oh, and the barrel nut came loose again.

I think this gun may end up drenched in locktite. (figuratively). I should probably go find some of the lower-temp stuff and go ahead and fix the barrel nut, and find somethign less tacky for the sight adjustement screw and the safety lever screws.

it's a $240 gun, I think I've gotten my money's worth out of it already because it was the tool that helped fix my flinching problem. I may just buy 8-10 bricks or several 1K cases and shoot the hell out of it until it breaks something and send it to S&W for a re-fit, it's still in warranty after all

Wonder how many range hours it'd take to burn through 3000 rounds, and how big a pile of brass that'd be.... and what kind of looks I'd get from the other people at the range for standing in the middle of it

 

[mfree]

Halvey,

I was rapid-firing, but i was still paying attention... I knew my fine control was leaving me (was an our and a half in of near constant firing) so what I did was start moving my targets out to 15 and 25 yards and aim the first shot carefully, and then try to bring that sight picture back as quickly as possible and fire the next shot, ad slidelockum. i was also attempting to figure out what gave me the bext mix of control and speed back to the sight picture with my hold.... hard to figure out with a near pinky-dangler like the walther.

Didn't do too bad, by the end of the day I could keep all my shots on a 3x5 index card with a blue circle on it at 7 yards, and about half those shots in the circle itself at ~2 yards, at the rapid fire pace... 15 yards netted me about a 30% x-ring with spread to 5" or so and 25 yards was about 15% and spread to 8-10" groups.

Basically, I think I've gotten to the point where, armed with the P22 (heh, like that'll ever happen) I could unload the entire clip into COM at 25 yards or closer in roughly 15 seconds. Which I'll need to do in that situation, since it's a .22

Still a great plinker I've been focusing on fine target skills with the CZ75 because the sights are *so* much better... they both have 3-dot combat sights but the P22's have such a wide gap in the rears that it's impossible to tell sometimes if you're lined up.