The Real Gun Guys

Poll Results

Here are the results of the machine gun poll.

When faced with a lone machine gun, most of you (70%) said that you’d take it under “protective custody” and “keep it safe for a rainy day.” After all, it might come in useful one day…

Nineteen percent would tell the authorities where it was, five percent would take it to the police and a mere three percent would simply walk away.

I hope you found this poll to be as interesting as I did! A new poll will be up soon.

Feel free to discuss this poll in the comments!

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Plate Match Round-up

Well, I didn’t win…my suckage was on full display this morning up at the range.

A mis-feed with my 22/45 popped me into the losers bracket, from which I never recovered. My sights were mis-adjusted on my GP100, causing me to shoot low. I managed to raise the rear sight 5 or 6 clicks and I was back on target, but my confidence was blown. Plus, the new load I am trying kicks harder than I’m used to, add to that the fact that the LRN bullets I loaded have a small ledge between the body and the nose part which hangs on the chamber edges in my cylinder. This makes it hard to do a fast reload from my speedloaders. I also tried shooting my Kahr CW9 today for the first time in competition and had trouble with pulling the muzzle down slightly as I pulled the trigger. As the match went on though I managed to work out of that to a large extent. Once I stopped doing that I managed to hit a lot of the plates just fine. I wasn’t good enough though to hang with the other autoloader shooters. This being the first time I’ve shot it in competition though I’m sure I’ll improve over time.

So, not a great day at the range, but winning is secondary for me. I go to the plate match just for the fun of it and the fellowship of the other shooters. I’ll keep working at my accuracy and shooting technique and improve.

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Sharpshooter Shootout Match Results

Well, I did okay in the match, 6th in a field of 14 (154 of 260 possible points). I was the only one shooting a Ruger 10/22, in fact I was the only one shooting .22lr period. Most of the other shooters used .308’s and I saw two or three .22-250’s there as well, plus a .17 or two… Let me tell you, getting a slow moving (1000 FPS), light weight (40gn) projectile to impact a 1.5″ target from 100 yards isn’t easy.

The match was held in three rounds of ten shots each, plus as many sighters as we wanted. The first target I got five shots in the black circles and kept improving until the third and final target I had most of them in the black. At that point though it was over and my score reflected the low scoring targets. I’m not whining, don’t get me wrong. My misses seemed to hover around the two inch mark, which is fine for small game, but bad for paper.

Oh well, I had fun. Winning would have been great, but that’s not why I shoot matches. In fact, if I’m not having fun shooting, I can’t see much point in it.

I’m thinking perhaps if I switched to a caliber with a little more “umph” behind it I might fare a little better. My suspicion is that the wind may have been playing havoc with my POI. *shrug* Well, I have some time to think about it until the next match.

One thought I had was perhaps scoping one of my milsurp rifles like my Mosin Nagant M91/30, or perhaps saving up the cash and getting an AR-15. The problem with that though is I’m not a rich guy and saving up that kind of money is hard for me to do.

Anyway, I’ll think of something!

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