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Not able to make it to the range today, buthe did a good amount of dry firing. From malfunction drills, to firing to a cadence,and trigger manipulation. Dry fire is always a good way to go when I can't make it to the range. I saw marked improvement on my groups last time at the range as a result.
Renewed my membership to Bristlecone, and shot the AR pistol with the new LaRue MBT. Very impressive stuff, I'll never be able to look at a milspec trigger the same way. Wasn't sure if a 2-stage on the pistol would feel right, but I love it. I imagine it'll be even better for a long range gun.
My red dot (bushnell trs-25) had been left on, so dead battery, and I didn't have a spare with me. Replaced the battery when I got home, and stuck 2 spares in the magpul grip.
Switched to the iron sights, and with the way the pistol is set up, I'm basically nose to charging handle, and my reading vision has gotten bad, so I was pretty much unable to use the rear sight. I know it's supposed to be out of focus, but it was so bad I couldn't tell if I was looking thru the rear sight aperture. Moved it forward about an inch. Looks wrong, but now it'll work right for me.
More fun with the garand. I've got a total of 60 rounds thru it so far, runs like a champ.
My wife shot 8 rounds from it today, off the sandbag. She did pretty good once she got the sight picture worked out. She was worried about recoil with it, but it didn't kick as hard as she expected.
I'm getting better at loading it, and slowly improving my offhand accuracy. 16 rounds offhand at 25 yards (I know a real shooter can do much better, but at least I'm improving)
http://i.imgur.com/cFKF6uk.jpg
Nice shooting DenverGP.
I managed to get twenty rounds off at a B-27 with my Glock 29. Sort of a cadence drill. Ten rounds each at seven and ten yards.
What sort of drill? I've done a few, but haven't found one that I liked enough to make it part of every range visit.
My pistol accuracy has been improving, but I still tend to slap the trigger when I try to go too fast, resulting in pulling the shots low. I find I need to force myself to go slow for a bit, then gradually pick up the pace to avoid the slap. Every range trip to play with one of the rifles, I'll put 20-30 rounds thru my carry pistol as well.
Saw a older gentleman at Bristlecone today who was working on some USPSA practice with his full on race 1911 (huge magwell, compensator, etc). He was shooting some pretty fast strings, but I noticed his first 3-4 shots were nice grouping, but additional shots were climbing the target pretty steady up and right, usually resulting in his last shots from each mag ending up/right off the USPSA target.
Not exactly from today:
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What kind of distance you shooting at? I really want to take some rifles out to longer distances, but haven't found anywhere close. Planning to head down to Cheyenne Mountain Shooting Complex one of these days.Quote:
Originally Posted by electronman1729
"Drill" is probably not the correct word. It's hard to get much out of a drill if 20 rounds is all you're going to shoot. But, since I said drill, I guess I would describe it as a very slow "Bill Drill" with three to five shots. Such an exercise makes for a quick range trip, 15-20 minutes maybe(?) that I can get in a couple/three times a week. What I was doing consisted of drawing from concealment, picking up the front sight, getting a good sight picture, exercising good trigger control and proper grip, then watching the shot as I "follow through". The 10mm Auto isn't as scary as some writers have led the public to believe but it is a handful, especially in a relatively small frame. It's easy for me to get too much "hand" on the gun and drive the shots low and to the left. Especially when I increase the tempo.Quote:
Originally Posted by DenverGP
Took the garand out to 100 yards today at blucore (indoor range, lighting wasn't great). Shooting off sand bags on the bench.
I had previously sighted it in at 25 yards (9 clicks up). I had read to lower by 1-2 clicks for 100 yards, but even with that, I was still coming in high. The target I was shooting was a white paper target with some red lines on it. At 100 yards, it was just a white sheet of paper. After I put one of my 6" shoot-n-c stickers on it, suddenly I had some reference to actually aim at. I figured out I was aiming way too high on the initial shots. Fired 8 shots working on the sight picture, but sights were adjusted low... that resulted in a pretty large group of 8 rounds spread below the black sticker, with one round on the sticker.
http://i.imgur.com/lnT6KBD.jpg
Adjusted back up 2 clicks (ended up just a single click lower than my original 25 yard sight in), and sent the target back out to 100 yards to try for a careful 3 shot group (on the same black target sticker):
http://i.imgur.com/wugCqmS.jpg
Measured out about 1.25" for that 3 shot group.
A little later, I actually had a "bump fire" where I didn't hold the trigger back after the shot broke, and as my shoulder pushed the gun forward after the recoil, fired a second shot. Amazingly, the bump fired shot was still within the 6" circle.
Shot my best group yet with my PSA 18" AR. If i'm measuring right, it's .32 MOA. First and second shots are pretty close to thru the same hole, but if you jump before and after the 2nd shot, you can see the hole get slightly larger.
Did some warm up / sighting in shots using my regular plinking ammo, then switched to some hand loaded rounds using Federal Fusion 62gr BTSP with 24gr of Ramshot TAC.
https://vimeo.com/233062827