Like I mentioned in the weekly report me and a couple of my friends went out shooting last Saturday for probably the last time this year as the weather is getting too nasty to go outside and shoot. Probably won't keep me from going to the indoor range during the winter though. Since it was the last time I wanted to take everything I had out there and take some pictures for the blog and just have a good time.

I took out the Maverick 88 (cheaper version of the Mossbreg 500) shotgun and this time the flashlight actually survived the outing and stayed attached to the shotgun. If you don't remember the last time I took out the shotgun I had another flashlight attached to the shotgun but after the second or so round the flashlight came flying off of the shotgun. I'm still not that great at shooting the shotgun but getting better. I don't like using the front bead sight and don't exactly know where I'm suposed to aim so might get either a ghost ring sight for it or go with another inexpensive red dot system. Of course that means more work but hey that just sounds like a winter time fun project.

Also along for this journey was the custom hand made 25-06 rifle that my grandpa made for me for the 18th birthday but I received it as a graduation gift. It's a beautiful rifle if I don't say so myself even if it does shoot a bit right of AOP. I took it along mostly because I really wanted to try out my own handloads that I did some time ago. I was shooting 90grain hollowpoints and I think they did pretty good for a first time reloading. I really need to pick up a small portable bench rest though as using the hood of the Subaru isn't all that great of an idea but it work for the day.

A trip out shooting isn't complete without the Ruger 10/22 and boy does it look small in pictures. Nothing really too new about this one as it's almost always coming along thanks to it being a .22 and thankfully still cheap and fun to shoot. The battery is still going strong (now that I remember to take it out of the scope) and the new Tactical Solutions magazine release lever is fantastic even if the fit is a bit off.

Last but not least are the two revolvers the Sig Sauer Mosquito is running much much better now that I know to keep it lubed up like a tight...well you know what I mean. Nothing really new there. New for the Model 15 though is the chance to actually use the speedloader and it was pretty handy and easy to use. I probably haven't mentioned this but I did apply red modelers paint to the top of the front sight and it helps immensely for aiming. Just a little trick I learned from reading and listening to Michael Bane's blog.

Oh yes what a fun afternoon of shooting it was a bit drizzly so didn't end up using the pro-camera even though I took it out there and instead used the handy Canon G6 for these pictures. My friend Nick's SKS only fired one out of 10 rounds and after a quick look at the primers it looked like the firing pin wasn't hitting as hard as it was supposed to so that will need to be looked at.

Because of the light showers though there was a little bit of mud out there and on the drive back we had a little fun off roading the Subaru Outback even though the mudflaps did a good job of keeping the mud off the car it was still fun. Probably one of few actually off roaded Outbacks though. But that was our day out shooting and you can check out the pictures at flickr

It's been a while since I've been to the range and in that time I picked up the Hogue overmold plastic grips and a new case. I heard that some people really just don't like the Hogue grips but after shooting with them this morning I think those people are just smoking freaking crack or something. The Model 15 was much more managable and comfortable to shoot with the new grips. It also makes the Model 15 look just that much better in my opinion. The first group of 50 rounds were pretty good the second 50 rounds...not so much. I think that had more to do with the heavier loads in the second group. The wadcutters were nice and lite and didn't have much more kick than the 22 but the semi-wadcutters had a bit more oomph to them so I caught myself pushing the revolver in anticipation of the recoil. Also not so good. All in all I really like the new grips and the new bag is really handy to have as well.

Also finished off the rest of the 22 ammo that I had brought with me too. Ending up being just shy of 130 rounds. With the Mosquito well lubbed up I was able to get through all that with only 3 FTF or FTE. That is what you call impressive for a Mosquito which has a healthy history of not wanting to even go through an entire magazine without a problem. With the Mosquito I'm mostly just having fun and messing around with it so have a ton of rounds outside of the orange but nothing to drasticly bad.

200 rounds of boom boom fun. I Was able to make it to the shooting range this morning afterall. Made it there just as they were opening up so it wasn't crowded which is a nice thing. I'll never go to the range again on a Saturday afternoon, to many douche bags and wannabe thugs there doing dumb ass shit. Like not hitting the broadside a target. Anyways that has nothing to do with the range report and is just random ranting on my part.

So I took 100 rounds with me for the 38. I mixed and matched a bit with the diffferent loads that I have but mostly used the wadcutter rounds which were lite compared to the hollow points and semi wadcutters. I was also worried that the sights were off because I was looking around reading up on the gun and people said that the sights are easy to knock out of wack. Lucky me they were still spot on for at least 10 yards which is a good distance for pistol shooting. Like I said the semi-wadcutters were pretty lite to shoot so it was pretty comfortable shooting for the most part. Still more powerful and a lot more smoker than the 22 is though which is alright but I couldn't get the taste of gunpowder out of my mouth forever though. BLEH! That's one major problem with shooting indoors. So yeah it was a lot of fun shooting it and didn't have any problems with it all but damn was it dirty gun after shooting.

I just didn't take the 38 though. I also brought along the Mosquito for some fun blasting. You gotta just love 22 pistols they don't do much for self defence really but they do punch nice little holes in paper. One of the good things is that I was able to go through 4 magazines without a single failure. That's pretty good for the Mosquito when your shooting Federal bulk Ammo. So yeah 100 rounds later and I was good to go for the day. On the way home I stopped off at the local Cabellas store to look and see if they had Hogue grips for the Revolver and turns out that they do and cheaper than what I can find them for on the internet. I know what I'm getting with the next paycheck.

last little notes for now. I really need to practice more with bigger guns I was all over the place with the 38 revolver, but out of a 100 rounds I only missed once. I really need to train my right eye to be the dominate one and those "fog free" safety glasses suck some major ass as they were constantly getting foggy if I had them fit snug on the face.