What did you do at the range lately?

[Hoser]

As a spin-off of this thread, https://www.ar-15.co/threads/87717-W...ing-room-today I thought a "What did you do at the range today" might be cool. After all this is a site about firearms and we are shooters right?

I went to the range with a Revolver and a Bolt Gun, a Smith and Wesson 929 and an Accuracy International PSR. I shot a little bit of revo, maybe 150-200 rounds and then headed over to the rifle range.

I just got a new Bartlien 8 twist barrel in 6CM for it. I got lucky as my old pet load worked just fine. Then I yanked the barrel and swapped it over to 300 Win Mag (4-5 minutes tops to change calibers) for some load development. The first load I tried, 70.0 gns of H-1000 under a Berger 230 gn Hybrid put 5 rounds just under 3/8 at 100 yards. And Tim says this load development stuff is hard... Recoil was a lot less than I had thought it would be. Now to load up 20 more to see how they do at distance. Hopefully Tuesday or Wednesday. Might shoot the 300 this Sunday in Raton.

[Jamnanc]

Took my three daughters 8-15 and one's friend to the pawnee. Shot 1ar, one 10/22, one 308 bolt, one 20 guage, a glock, and a 22 pistol. Shot paper and steel and everyone was safe and had fun.

Started off the day fishing with the two younger girls. It was a good day.

[wctriumph]

Nothing today but going with my daughter tomorrow - Monday out to Baker Draw. We are going to shoot pistols at paper.

[buffalobo]

IDPA yesterday, no range time today but my granddaughters helped me sort some cans of 38spl/9mm brass after we got back from the school playground.

[ray1970]

IDPA yesterday, no range time today but my granddaughters helped me sort some cans of 38spl/9mm brass after we got back from the school playground.

So, you were collecting brass from the school playground?

[buffalobo]

So, you were collecting brass from the school playground?

Well played. Almost got coffee out the nose.

[Marine24]

Went out to Fort Carson to finally get around to sighting in my 260 Rem, 17HMR, 223 Rem and 7mm-08 bolt guns. Shot out at range 2 and there was just two of us.

My 260 Rem likes the 139gr Scenar ammo from Southwest.



Not so much on the Barnes 120 TTSX load



Had fun taking a crack at the steel antelope at 411 yards with my 223 Remington and the scuba tanks at 600+ yards. Antelope was pretty simple but had trouble hearing hits on the scuba tanks.

[Aloha_Shooter]

Helped some Scouts realize they can hit a clay from 100 yards using a .22. Also had several shooting paintballs off golf tees at 50 feet using iron sights. They were lined up to try the (relatively) long range shooting.

[Hoser]

Took my 6 Grendel that member AKA Spook built for me out for some load development. Varget was a little high pressure with the really accurate load, so I decided to try H4895 with 105 Berger Hybrids.

I had also swapped out uppers. I had it in a LaRue OBR Lite upper and I moved it to a VLTOR monolithic upper. The monolithic uppers make mounting scopes much easier. And of course, a Thunderbeast suppressor and a S&B 4-16x42.

This is 5 shots at 610 yards. Pretty happy with that.

[Hoser]

I took my new 223 Ackley bolt gun to a match yesterday.

I had my new Terminus action barreled by Fritz at Black Canyon Rifles a few weeks ago. This replaced my Bighorn that was being an asshole feeding and caliber with a 223 based case. This action feeds like butter. Much smoother than the Bighorn.

Using a stout load of Varget in Lapua brass, I am pushing 80 gn Sierra bullets just over 3,000 fps.

I really like the minimal recoil and noise. After a string of 7 shots, my RO told me that the timer didnt pick up a single shot. My reply "You say that like its a bad thing." Gotta love Thunderbeast suppressors.

Here is a picture from a couple weeks ago. I was practing shooting off a tripod at 1,000 yards.