Sunday, January 26, 2014

A very fine Sunday...

Since we had Men's Bible Study at Dennis's home last evening we were wound up and ready to worship the Lord and study His word today. The discussions at Sunday school took from everyone and gave everyone many things to consider in the coming week.

After class I said farewell to the normal sit around and talk some more guys, wishing them well and I headed for the range. To get some more time with my new rifle, particularly check the zero with ten rounds, shoot thirteen in a Red Coat target and another forty within the time and position constraints of a regular AQT. While looking at what others are shooting, how well they are shooting and talking about anything Appleseed since I had a trifold or two and some spare Red Coats to share.

Now, if I settle down, I will one day be a fine shooter, for sure I must quit thinking about the next target I can only affect the one I am shooting NOW, not the next one. I blame all rounds that don't hit center on the need for speed, which is only in my mind. I had time on each stage without worry, even with a couple of stove pipes, I am getting better at clearing the brass and getting on with the shooting.

So I didn't clean the Red Coat, make all hits count, but I was close. I only got 190 points on the AQT, mostly because of three non-counting flyers, and then poor time use and NPOA verification on stage four, should have checked it twice. I am so good at giving advice that I don't follow, for no good reason. Sigh.

Still it was a beautiful day, which finished with me watching Name of the Rose on video. Sad movie and story, very well done.


7 comments:

  1. Earl - Took my new LTR to the range Friday first time. Pre-zeroed with laser bore sighter @25 yds and was off by only 1 inch @5:00. Scrounged together 4 brands of ammo, all copper plated. No redcoats but printed off 1-inch bulls, 5 per sheet. Dialed in then shot five 5-shot groups per brand. Several holes-in-one and a few 4-in-one holes with a flyer, likely the cold bore shot, from bench rest. CCI Mini-mags best closely followed by CCI AR Tactical, Win M22 and Super-X HS. No jams, stovepipes or FTFs. Very happy with the LTR.

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    1. It gets better every time I go out, cleaning the rifle tonight. You must have lots of ammunition choices. Lucky you.

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    2. Sportsman's, Wednesday, 9am. Two per until gone. Unverified second-hand info.

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  2. Still, trigger time will help bring that in, and getting more comfortable with the new rifle....

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    1. I am sure trigger time will help, it already has, and I will never shoot as much on this rifle as a regular Appleseed would in two days, I am just looking at sixty three rounds per test.

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  3. Frankly, having read the book (yes, I made it through all of that book), and having seen the movie: I liked the book better. The movie put some things out too soon for my tastes, but then I read the book first.

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