Old history. I got an invite to the Boulder Firearm Range. Spent the day at the 100yrd range and sighted in several rifles.
Moved here in '95 and the wait was 3yrs. Today the wait is 10yrs. Hind sight...
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Old history. I got an invite to the Boulder Firearm Range. Spent the day at the 100yrd range and sighted in several rifles.
Moved here in '95 and the wait was 3yrs. Today the wait is 10yrs. Hind sight...
Ran 375rds through my ar-9 trying out the new sba3. Very comfortable now.
I shot a couple hundred rounds through my old LaRue OBR Lite (5.56) yesterday at the Pueblo Tactical Rifle Match. 10-12 years old and several barrel changes later, it is still a hammer.
Now I have to figure out which AK to use next month for the AK vs AR match.
More like, I actually found a range. An older fellow named Jim, a farmer whose family has lived in this little town since 1890, was in the coffee shop this morning. He lives less than a mile from me and he and his sons and grandsons farm hundreds of acres nearby. He mentioned he and his grandson, who I also learned is an FFL dealer, had built a range in one of their fields. I asked him if it was in a particular location (because I'd noticed it last week where no range was before)...he said that was it. Jim also mentioned his grandson had got him a new AR but he hadn't been able to shoot it because he can't find ammo.
Later in the morning I rounded up 500 rounds of 5.56 ammo and went and dropped it off at his house. He asked me how much? I said, "Well...will that buy me a little time on your range?" Apparently it will. I now have permission to visit his range and use it any time I want to. Which is a good thing because there'snot a lot ofno public land in OK where you can just go out and shoot.
Side note: I met Jim's son, Scott, at the coffee shop the first morning after I arrived in town. He asked if I needed help and offered to round up all his brothers and adult sons to help me unload the U-Haul. Very, very nice family.
So, that's what I did at the range today.
Basic range but no dummies to contend with and I have plenty of steel and other targets to jazz things up a bit:
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And, when I miss, I have the perfect, built in, excuse: "The sun was in my eyes!"
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Thats a great score BG!!!!
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Originally Posted by Bailey Guns
Had to look twice. At first i thought it was a massive red ant colony, complete with furniture. ;)
I haven't seen any large ant colonies here at all. Very few ants of any kind, as a matter of fact. Lots of grasshoppers. The only thing that's really bad here are ticks. Lots and lots of ticks. Ticks are the antifa of the bug world...like antifa are the ticks of the human world.
Ticks are OK's state bird. You could be standing in a well paved parking lot and find / feel 1 or 2 crawling on you.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bailey Guns
That, my friend, is a fact.
scored 1500 of these eley sub sonic 22's at a garage sale last year. Decided to break out the 77/22 to see how they perform. Running a 1st gen TBAC 4" 22 can, 3-9 burris fullfield and harris bipod. This was a test to see how they performed and papered. My only issue is light strikes. I'll see how they do in the TOZ-78 bolt action, before any upgrades to triggers, if needed. I want a dedicated suppressed bolt action.
Anyway.
20 rds @ 25 yds. Again no scope adj, just seeing how they papered.. The sound of the trigger / firing pin is louder than these rounds were, with the can
https://i.imgur.com/0k5G9qGl.jpg
Then road tested some 150 gr 30 cal reduced recoil loads in the LTR. 10 rds. 5 @ 50, 5@ 100 to see if there was any tumbling, before loading to shoot suppressed. Info on load data is in the reloading forum.
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