The Real Gun Guys

Change We Can Believe In!

This is freaking hilarious! To bad they don’t have Obama too.

(h/t) 45-Caliber Justice

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Gangsta’

Found here and modified by me with The Gimp. This reminds me of the HomeBoy Sights which I posted about a while back.

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Smoking Some Pins

I went up with Jeffersonian yesterday morning to the Wolverton Mountain Gun Club in tiny Ariel, WA for their monthly pin shoot. How did I do? Honestly not that great, but I had fun and that’s all that matters.

The main problem with pins is they fall over and roll around on the table instead of leaving the table. You have to shoot them in just the right place to get them to fly off the table. If you’re lucky, they’ll roll off the side of the table without you having to shoot them again. Also, when they’re laying on the table you’re presented with a much smaller target than when they were upright. Contrast this to an eight inch steel plate that falls over and stays down once hit.

Anyway, I had a blast (pun intended) and was happy with my trigger control and my reloads have improved a lot since last time. Here I am (right) preparing to draw my revolver at the beginning of a stage.

My GP-100 ate all of my handloads just fine and everything performed flawlessly. The two new (to me) speed loaders I got at the last Barberton gun show worked great. I like that I only have to insert the cartridges into the cylinder and push the button instead of having to turn the knob. To me it’s a more natural motion.

This last picture is of me trying to persuade some bowling pins to leave the table. The damn things were laying down on the job instead of flying off the table like good little pins would. According to another shooter, the trick is to aim for the bottom stripe on the neck. If shot COM like I was doing they just fall over and lay down.

I’ll have to remember that for next time!

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What kind of Gun am I?

I am a: Colt model 1911 in 45ACP

What kind of handgun are YOU?

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22 Match This Morning

My range has started a new match on Thursday mornings for .22’s. So this morning I packed up the kids and dropped them off at school and then proceeded to the range. The match started at 9AM and I managed to get there just in time to shoot in the second relay. I also shot an additional target for no score for the practice.

The targets were set out at 50 yards and consisted of twenty five small bullseyes and three sighters, which I needed because my custom Ruger 10/22 had been sighted in for 100 yards. I shot the low velocity Federal Premium .22lr (40gn LRN - 1,050 FPS) today.

I finally got my scope sighted in on the sighters and shot my first target. I didn’t do too badly, though there were better shooters than I there. For the first target I got 177 out of 250 points. The second target I did better with 182 out of 250 points, but that one didn’t count.

Even though I didn’t win I had fun and that’s what counts!

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Range Day

Neither rain, nor snow, nor sleet, nor ill health shall keep the shooter from going to the range. It was cold and rainy yesterday and I wasn’t feeling in the best of health, but I went anyway. Heck, I had guns to shoot and shit.

Mossberg Single Shot .22 (anything):

I got this rifle at the Barberton gun show several months ago for my son to learn on when I feel he is ready for it. It languished for several months in a gunsmiths shop when I found out it wouldn’t fire. I bought a replacement firing pin and took it in, but he never got around to it. I got it back and at the last show a gun savvy guy there helped me get the new firing pin installed. Once I got it home, I pulled the bullets from two .22lr cartridges and dumped the powder. I verified that the primer fired on both and put it away until I went up to the range the next day.

Now I’m getting light strikes about 3/4 of the time, although it will fire if the phases of the moon are just right. I also had a problem of cases sticking in the chamber. No, I was not using Remington Golden Bullet ammo, I was using bulk pack Federal which I’ve had zero problems with.

Of the rounds that did fire the POI was way down and to the right at 25 yards. Obviously the sights need adjustment too. I’ll continue to work on it as I have time and money.

One thing I found odd was the ejection. Fired cases ejected almost straight ahead of the rifle, while unfired cases ejected to the right. I’ve never had a rifle do this before. Peculiar, but not really a bad thing. Like I said, it’s just odd.

Yugo SKS (again):

Well, what can I say. *sigh* I set out a target at 100 yards and only had one strike out of a magazine. The POI was way high. Back to 25 yards I came and soon had it zeroed from real good.

I then went back to 100 yards and was hitting high, then low after adjustment and lastly to the right. It was like buckshot…

Something I don’t quite understand is going on and I don’t yet know precisely what it is.

Either the scope or the mount is shifting under recoil. I’ve already locktited the set screws on the mount. The scope is supposed to be able to handle the recoil too, so I don’t know. I’ll keep working at it.

I ran out of time and was going to chrono some Mosin rounds, but it turns out that all of the clubs chrono’s have either been shot, or are otherwise non-functional. I don’t have one either, so I guess I’m going to have to get one for myself next month, finances willing.

All in all it was a frustrating day at the range, but it was still fun getting outside!

UPDATE: Upon cleaning I have discovered the screws on the scope rings themselves have come loose. These are the ones on the bottom which connect the rings to the scope rail. The front one was loose enough I could turn it with my fingers and the rear one was rattling it was so loose.Looks like I’m going to have to locktite them too.

I originally tightened them down with a pair of channel lock pliers so I know they were tight. The screws holding the mount to the gun are still tight, as are the ones holding the rail posts into the mount. I guess another range day is in order.

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Gun Show Loot

I went to a gun show last Saturday and while I didn’t get a new gun, I did get some other cool loot.

Here we see (clockwise from 12:00) a Cold Steel “Bushman” survival knife, Bunker Hill electronic digital safe, a cheap nylon holster (gifted by Jeffersonian), batteries and fasteners (came with the safe), compass (freebie), and two speed loaders with leather belt pouch ( steal at $10) which I got for my Ruger GP100. I also got a bag of previously fired .223 brass for $5.

Most of all it was just fun being there!

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Target from yesterday

Yes, obviously I need to practice a bit more with this weapon, but I’m still not upset with the results so far.

I can’t help but think I’d have better results with some handloaded ammo. I’ll have to see about getting some brass and projectiles…

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Plate Match Today

I didn’t win, but I had fun and that’s what counts. The Volquartsen vertical compensator I put on my Ruger 22/45 worked great. I noticed a definite reduction in muzzle jump with it on. I heartily recommend it! Not only does it work, but it looks great too!

Here are a couple videos I took at the match. I’m not in these but I thought people would find them interesting.

In this first one, John Goss is in the foreground with Jim Breen on the other side with Jeffersonian officiating. They are each shooting .22’s with red dot’s.

I was also going to sight in my SKS with the donated red dot after the match today, but the honest truth is I was so cold at that point that I chickened out and came home. I’ll try and get it sighted in asap though. When I do I’ll be sure and take some pictures!

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Wolverton Mountain Gun Club Pin Shoot

Yesterday, Jeffersonian and I went up to the Wolverton Mountain Gun Club for their bowling pin shoot. This was the second time I’ve taken part in the shoot, but Jeffersonian’s been up there many times. That’s me at the left, blowing the snot out of the advancing evil bowling pin horde with my Ruger GP100.

We got there just after 9AM and got signed and holstered up for the match. I was shooter 10 out of 11, so I got to observe the other shooters prior to my time on the firing line.

For this match I used the same 9 gn Blue Dot, Federal MSPP and 158 gn Hornady LRN bullet load I used previous. Oddly, this time I didn’t notice the recoil and no blister was rubbed in my thumb. Weird.

My favorite and best round, was the last one, where the shooter is seated with his hands on his knees, with a loaded pistol on the “table” in front of him. At the beep, the shooter picks up the pistol and knocks over the four pins on the platform in front of him, reloads, and with the strong hand only, shoots the pin on the ground as the stop pin. Failure to follow this leads to a :03 penalty.

If you have a chance to shoot bowling pins, I recommend you give it a try!

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