Don Foreman wrote:

I think I'm going back tomorrow. I'm taking my Marlin 1985 guide gun in .45-70, a Marlin
.22rf rifle for warm up, the Security Six, the P90 and the Ruger MKII Target .22. I'll
check the garage but I think I'm out of .380 except for what is in my magazines.

I went today also. If today was any indicator, my best shooting days
may be behind me. I did not carefully preserve my target to take
home for photos and email brags.

What I did was sign it "Ryan" with a Sharpie, fold it neatly and
stuff it in the trash can at the range. Ryan is running for sherriff
in Stevens county...


Sly

What the hell, I had a nice time. Having fun is job 1.

youbetcha

I only shot one magazine of .380ACP. Those little cases disappear
into the grass and I only have about a thousand of them. I'll
practice with the .380 back home where there's class V underfoot and
brass is easy to find and retrieve. I then shot the LCR revolver for
a while and then some .45ACP because I have about a lifetime supply of
.45ACP brass.

One reason I like shooting a revolver is you don't have to chase those darn cases. Usually
when I buy a centerfire handgun, I buy 500 empty cases from Starline to get going.


I tried the LCR .38 without a shooting glove today. As suspected, I
observed no difference in comfort. Those Hogue grips are that good.
The glove definitely contributes to comfort with my little .380's.

If they are like pachmayrs, I'm sure they are worth the expense.


I stopped over to uncles to retrieve the adjustable iris disk that is currently screwed to
my .62 under hammer uncle borrowed to shoot. He made the rifle for me a few years ago but
he usually is the one that shoots it. I have a .58 he made many years ago and got rid of.
I ended up buying it from a third or fourth party and now after some cutting and chopping
and grinding, it is a pretty nice rifle. I prefer it to the .62 .

Anyway, I ask him what he is going to do and he says go out to the 40 to shoot his
highwall. Oh, mind if I come along? He said, I thought you were going to your club? I
told him I'm still going but I can shoot with you first.

So we head out to the 40 and at the gate, I realize I brought the gun, the ammo, but left
my ear protection at his place. Back we went.

He had 5 rounds he wanted to fire at 100 yards and he realized he should have loaded a
fouling shot. I gave him one of my cartridges.

His group wasn't worth talking about.

Then we moved the target to 50 yards since I'm using iron sights. My first 5 shots were
not so good but I put another 5 into the same target and if we extended things to 100, the
gun is shooting 4 moa up and down and about 2 moa sideways. Well, at least that is its
tendency if you know what I mean. I'm sure I could improve that a bit using optics. My
eyes are not what they used to be.

I still got ammo so I ask uncle to get his Browning Highwall back out and let me run my
405g 45-70 handloads though it.

That rifle shot nice. He has a light crisp trigger, I turned the scope down to 7 power,
he had a target scope on it and I don't like taking my pulse looking through the scope

Damn deer flies are eating me up now. AB positive must be a real treat. The group was
far far better than what I could shoot with the marlin.

I was tempted to put the target back at 100 and see what I could wring out of this but the
wind was really whipping up so I'm saving that for another morning with uncle.

Trip to the club shooting plates was okay, I'm really hating that DA/SA trigger on my P90.
I practiced draws on a plate firing from decocked for the most part. I'd really like to
see a LDA in a 7 + 1 configuration. I checked Davidsons and came up empty. Must be
popular.

I have a feeling I was shooting high The ammo I found out in the garage was some stuff I
made out of bullets for a .45 long colt I purchased by accident. These were 255g flat
nosed things. Not a wad cutter but not a SWC profile. I got one stove pipe and only lost
4 cases out of 80. I had fun though and there wasn't any damn deer flys at the club
range.

I had fun which is all that matters.

Wes