What did you do at the range lately?

[jhood001]

Made up some drills. Shot them. Got tired. I might need to find a tactical cane or something to help me get up off the ground.

Fun day!

[BigBear]

Wife n I went out for some bow and clays and .22 yesterday for my "burfday". It was a relaxing time for sure! ...been waaay to long since I've been out.

[Great-Kazoo]

Made up some drills. Shot them. Got tired. I might need to find a tactical cane or something to help me get up off the ground.

Fun day!

You're in luck, i have a camo one. I prefer black myself, less light reflection.

[ray1970]

Went out for some much needed trigger time on a couple of handguns today. Weather was awesome. First time I have fired a live round since probably last August.

Fired a total of 400 rounds. Didn't start out so well. A lot of my shots were going about three inches left as I often tend to do. Decided to do a little experimenting. What I found was that if I slowed down, took my time, focused on the front sight, and squeezed the trigger everything was going left. If I totally ignored the sights, focused on and pointed at my target, and sped things up then all of my shots were tight and in the center where I was pointing. Isn't this the opposite of how things are supposed to go? Four hundred rounds gave me plenty of time to switch back and forth between "proper technique" and just pointing and burning rounds off. Never changed. The more I tried to do it right, I just kept shooting left. When I would just point and shoot everything was good.

I'm going to try my new technique (or lack thereof) next time there's an IDPA match and see what happens.

[Irving]

I'm going to try my new technique (or lack thereof) next time there's an IDPA match and see what happens.

I recently went through the exact same exercise. The next match there were a lot of point-shoot distance targets. I had never thought of targets like that before, but once I got into that mentality, I was really able to open up my speed and placed 3rd over all. There was still a significant gap between me and 1st and 2nd place though. It's amazing how much you can cut down your time when you aren't hunting for sights. I want to say that the point-shoot distance (for me) is anything out to 7 yards? I had to be shown that I could do that. I wouldn't have even thought to try that technique on my own.

*Pretty sure a few of the top spot shooters also were not there last match.

[TheBelly]

load testing in .308. I found some 168gr AMAX to tide me over until the shipment of 175gr BTHPs show up.

believe it or not, they go pretty slow out of a 16" barrel. 2415fps average speed, actually.... I think I can throw faster than that!

[Hoser]

I went to a rifle match Saturday. I shot my new-ish AKA-Spook built 6 Grendel. With minimal load development I had what I thought was going to be a pretty solid load.

The first string was prone, the two small targets were a 3x5 and a 5 inch round plate at 300 yards. I had three misses. I added two clicks of elevation and went on to clean the rest of the match. I guess spending a lot of time shooting my air rifle kneeling and off sticks in my basement paid off. Having a crazy accurate gun does not hurt either...

[TheBelly]

I guess spending a lot of time shooting my air rifle kneeling and off sticks in my basement paid off.

I wish I could kneel again. Enjoy it while you can.

ETA: I've got quite the love affair with tripods and shooting sticks these days. As an old instructor of mine would say: "Get off your damn stomach! You will NEVER encounter a prone shot in the real world, you a$$hole!"

[Hoser]

I wish I could kneel again. Enjoy it while you can.

800mg of Motrin when I wake up on match day and another 800 on the way home. Lots of stretching helps as does having the left knee rebuilt already.

[TheBelly]

800mg of Motrin when I wake up on match day and another 800 on the way home. Lots of stretching helps as does having the left knee rebuilt already.

I go to the carpenter to get it fixed in a little bit. Things that used to move are about to not move ever again. ugh! Again, I really love shooting sticks and tripods!!