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Hi friends -
Kirill and I went to my friend Art's farmland yesterday to do some shooting. At our normal club range, we have to be good - no exploding targets.
Art says "bring it on!", so Kirill had bought some Tannerite last year at Knob Creek, which we proceeded to set up and explode it.
A load of firepower in Art's truck.
Lot's of room in the Super Crew - and that was a good thing too!
Setting up - Kirill had his home-made swinging gong - unfortunatley he was missing one of the parts and we could only use it for paper targets.
My 10-22 that I bought from Mr. K - after cleaning it up and adjusting the sight, it is a tack driver at 50 yards easy.
First we got Kirill's new Mosin Nagant on the paper - it was very accurate, and it has a heck of a kick!
We had a ton of fun - we set up several spinning targets and my 4 position self resetting drop target, and proceeded to have a ton of fun with our Ruger 10-22s, and Art's HK and Ruger Mark III at about 50 yards.
I also took the opportunity to get some practice in with my carry piece, my Kimber Ultra RCP II. I threw out a couple of those little orange "self healing" bounce targets at about 20 yards, and was able to hit it with pretty good accuracy. I am getting used to the trough-site on the little Kimber, it is pretty accurate for a 3" 1911.
Then I pulled out my Magnum .500, and Art his .460 Magnum, and we took some practice at the spinners at 50 yards. I am getting much better with the big boy, able to make the smallish (10" diameter?) target spin three out of 5 shots. The thing with the Magnum is your flinch reflex - it's tough to keep from flinching with that one. I was firing hand-loads with a 380 gr. projectile. No, not a misprint, these cartridges are the size of a double a battery!
Comparison shot showing a .500, a .460, a .45 long colt and .45acp.
Here is a neat shot I took when I had finished putting 6 downrange with Art's New Vaquero -
Then we pulled back to around 120 yards and started shooting the high velocity stuff at Art's gong target.
Here is Kirills JSP and my custom RRA/WOA AR15
I was able to bang the gong easily from 120 yards with the Eotech sight. Unfortunatley, Kirill was able to hit the s-hook on the chain, so the target flopped. An easy fix, but it ended our gong shooting.
I took a shot at it at 50 yards and the 5.56 round perforated the target (sorry Art!!) leaving the projectile sticking out the back side of the thick steel target.
The end of a great trip. Art is a knife guy, notice his Vic on his keychain.
Sometimes it is good to live in the cornfields, this was one occasion!
best
mqqn
Kirill and I went to my friend Art's farmland yesterday to do some shooting. At our normal club range, we have to be good - no exploding targets.
Art says "bring it on!", so Kirill had bought some Tannerite last year at Knob Creek, which we proceeded to set up and explode it.
A load of firepower in Art's truck.
Lot's of room in the Super Crew - and that was a good thing too!
Setting up - Kirill had his home-made swinging gong - unfortunatley he was missing one of the parts and we could only use it for paper targets.
My 10-22 that I bought from Mr. K - after cleaning it up and adjusting the sight, it is a tack driver at 50 yards easy.
First we got Kirill's new Mosin Nagant on the paper - it was very accurate, and it has a heck of a kick!
We had a ton of fun - we set up several spinning targets and my 4 position self resetting drop target, and proceeded to have a ton of fun with our Ruger 10-22s, and Art's HK and Ruger Mark III at about 50 yards.
I also took the opportunity to get some practice in with my carry piece, my Kimber Ultra RCP II. I threw out a couple of those little orange "self healing" bounce targets at about 20 yards, and was able to hit it with pretty good accuracy. I am getting used to the trough-site on the little Kimber, it is pretty accurate for a 3" 1911.
Then I pulled out my Magnum .500, and Art his .460 Magnum, and we took some practice at the spinners at 50 yards. I am getting much better with the big boy, able to make the smallish (10" diameter?) target spin three out of 5 shots. The thing with the Magnum is your flinch reflex - it's tough to keep from flinching with that one. I was firing hand-loads with a 380 gr. projectile. No, not a misprint, these cartridges are the size of a double a battery!
Comparison shot showing a .500, a .460, a .45 long colt and .45acp.
Here is a neat shot I took when I had finished putting 6 downrange with Art's New Vaquero -
Then we pulled back to around 120 yards and started shooting the high velocity stuff at Art's gong target.
Here is Kirills JSP and my custom RRA/WOA AR15
I was able to bang the gong easily from 120 yards with the Eotech sight. Unfortunatley, Kirill was able to hit the s-hook on the chain, so the target flopped. An easy fix, but it ended our gong shooting.
I took a shot at it at 50 yards and the 5.56 round perforated the target (sorry Art!!) leaving the projectile sticking out the back side of the thick steel target.
The end of a great trip. Art is a knife guy, notice his Vic on his keychain.
Sometimes it is good to live in the cornfields, this was one occasion!
best
mqqn
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thanks for sharing again
