Since I last posted some real words instead of placeholders we've been shooting almost every weekend except for this last weekend. This weekend we prepped a couple of hundred pieces of .308 brass. We loaded half up with our standard accurate plinking load (Hornady 150 gn fmj bullet & 44gn Varget) and the other half for water bottles, milk jugs, hedge apples and if you're feelin' cocky, walnuts (Hornady 110gn V-max bullet & 46gn H335).
We often split our time between the high power and the pistol range but usually it's the pistol range that gets short shrift. And on the high power range my time is split between workin' some off-hand CQB drills with my carbine and bench resting it so I can shoot the 200 yard gong using my red dot optic. Then there's plinkin' the 200 or 300 yard gong with my .308 or getting serious and fully resting my .308 to see how tight I can get my groups if there's a paper at the 200 or 300 yard target.
At the pistol range other than occasionally shooting a few magazines at the 50 yard gong with my or one of Mr WK's pistols I usually stick to target acquisition drills. I may not be much quicker but I'm a heck of a lot more accurate that I was a year ago when I started working strictly on target acquisition.
And a word about shooting the 50 yard gongs on the pistol range, freehand with a pistol. Five or six months ago they moved the gongs from the small free-form pistol range to the edge of the large pistol range with the target stands at 25 yards. My hand and arm strength has improved a great deal since I started shooting at least a magazine or so at them every time we shoot at the pistol range. I can hold the pistol steady enough now to hit it most of the time at first, then as I tire, about half the time and then it goes down rapidly from there. When they first moved them the only way I could hit them was to bench rest the pistol and then it was mostly likely a lucky shot.
This Sunday we've got an IDPA match at the Cap City range. We haven't shot an IDPA match since we shot the 2011 IDPA Postal Match the first of November. This one will be chilly with highs in the high 30's from an overnight low in the mid 20's. Set-up starts at 7:30am and the match starts at 10am. At least it's supposed to be dry and sunny. We'll just layer up!
blogging to: Pandora Radio seeded with Manheim Steamroller Christmas
reading: Murder by Bicycle by Veronica Heley (an Ellie Quicke mystery)
Parting Shot:
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We often split our time between the high power and the pistol range but usually it's the pistol range that gets short shrift. And on the high power range my time is split between workin' some off-hand CQB drills with my carbine and bench resting it so I can shoot the 200 yard gong using my red dot optic. Then there's plinkin' the 200 or 300 yard gong with my .308 or getting serious and fully resting my .308 to see how tight I can get my groups if there's a paper at the 200 or 300 yard target.
At the pistol range other than occasionally shooting a few magazines at the 50 yard gong with my or one of Mr WK's pistols I usually stick to target acquisition drills. I may not be much quicker but I'm a heck of a lot more accurate that I was a year ago when I started working strictly on target acquisition.
And a word about shooting the 50 yard gongs on the pistol range, freehand with a pistol. Five or six months ago they moved the gongs from the small free-form pistol range to the edge of the large pistol range with the target stands at 25 yards. My hand and arm strength has improved a great deal since I started shooting at least a magazine or so at them every time we shoot at the pistol range. I can hold the pistol steady enough now to hit it most of the time at first, then as I tire, about half the time and then it goes down rapidly from there. When they first moved them the only way I could hit them was to bench rest the pistol and then it was mostly likely a lucky shot.
This Sunday we've got an IDPA match at the Cap City range. We haven't shot an IDPA match since we shot the 2011 IDPA Postal Match the first of November. This one will be chilly with highs in the high 30's from an overnight low in the mid 20's. Set-up starts at 7:30am and the match starts at 10am. At least it's supposed to be dry and sunny. We'll just layer up!
blogging to: Pandora Radio seeded with Manheim Steamroller Christmas
reading: Murder by Bicycle by Veronica Heley (an Ellie Quicke mystery)
Parting Shot:
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