I took the drive to the Oakdale Gun Club and it was misting a bit, and got a bit heavier, then when I got closer it started drying the the clouds got a bit lighter!
Yes!
No direct sunlight, a little bit of wind, not insanely hot and humid, pretty good day.
Good day shooting too.
Not a lot of people and being at the 100yard line I was away from a lot of the potential kBs.
Although someone two lanes to my left popped out their bushmaster and starting launching shells at me.
Bad thing for me was that he only used his brass catcher on the reloadable brass.
So there I am, catching the bloody steel case. :/
It slipped my mind to bring the M38 or M44 to have some fireball fun, I wont do that again, it's fun hearing the range officers go, "WTF?" and see them jump from the corner of my eye.
Anyway, the range reports.
K31 did superbly well with the GP11 ammo, first two shots hit the friggin paper, Bravo.
Only fired 5 on the yellow, was gonna do the 6th but they called the line for clear while I was looking through the scope and picking up my brass.
Ex-Dragoon, that was a pain in the a**.
It took me about 20 or more rounds to even get onto the damn paper.
It shoots extremely high and to the right, for me to get that group in the red I had to shoot at the bottom left corner of the paper and a little bit out of it.
Those +#s are the strays that went somewhere off the damn paper.
Damn, I'm almost tempted to turn it into a sniper.
That's with commercial 203 gr Barnaul. :O
At the range this guy had a 1917 Enfield that was a bit sporterized, not by him, someone else.
Front sight was removed and the stock was so badly butchered that it couldn't have been saved, so he put on an '03 stock and called it done.
It actually looked very nice.
He had a no-drill scope mount that replaces the rear sight.
Said it doesn't hold zero too good but, that's what sometimes happens with the no drill stuff.
He smiled when I guessed the rifle right.
Hehe
A bit earlier than that a group of girls and one male came in with an M1 Garand. Nice. Girls didn't look bad either.
There was another M1 but the guy didn't stay too long, I guess he only had two or three clips of ammo. :/ Either that or he went to the 200 or 50 yard line.
He had a scope on his.
Sorry, no range report on the PSL, got extremely worried about how to clean the gas port on the damn thing that I couldn't risk doing it without further info.
I did lob some 7.62x39 down range through my SKS, worked like a champ, the range report on that was... not something to write home about.
It was old ammo, steel case not even lacquer coated so it was getting rust, main reason why I was throwing it away.
Also, after 50 or 60 of the rounds I went to put the rifle away, touched the metal to see if it was hot.
Yeah, 10 more rounds and I'm sure I would have had a lasting burn.
Oh almost forgot!
Best for last I guess.
Well, best story not accuracy.
I took my Enfield out and shot some of that old '60s surplus ammo. Got a compliment from the '17 guy.
I couldn't hit s**t with that s**t.
It was all over the target.
And, scary thing:
There were delays in the rounds going off.
I could hear the hammer 'click' then, 'BOOM!'.
One particular round had almost a One second delay.
So I heard;
Click-boom!
click-boom!
repeat for about 18 more rounds
Click..(what seems like an eternity in about a second)..boom!
My eyes went wide when that big delay went, and I stopped five rounds after that.
I'm sure that didn't help my accuracy much.
Both my SKS and Enfield was gummed up.
Dirty, dirty ammunition.
Boiling water cleaned the Enfield and solvent cleaned the SKS.
