Monday, November 19, 2012

Boom boom day

After a 45 minute drive, we arrived at a nice shooting spot. There are shooting spots closer but they either cost money to use or are completely trashed out by all the irresponsible shooters who use them. The bonus is the longer the drive, the less people you will encounter. We shared the spot with one other group of shooters, for a total of 9 people.

This is my neighbors daughter shooting the other halfs carbine. I left mine at home and spent most of the time sighting in my .308 (the one on the ground) and still didn't get it dialed in perfectly. I really need a bench and a better spotter, but for what I had to work with I was drilling center mass at about 300 feet.
I love to shoot, I hate to clean up. Not only do we pick up all of our trash, we also pick up a ton of other garbage that people leave. It's not hard, just frustrating that even the people we range shared with left trash. We got lots of brass, I might look into reloading if I get a year end bonus, shooting $100 of .308 and about $250 of other calibers adds up fast, luckily we don't shoot so often and one of our group does reload. I'm honestly not sure I have enough time, or want to dedicate the time.

Made a few loaves of bread, finished a book, worked out at the gym, cleaned the house, went to the movies and saw Skyfall. Great movie with a small audience right next to huge wrap around lines to see Twilight. Yuck.

5 comments:

  1. I'm the same way at the indoor range, I try to leave it cleaner, even of only slightly, than when I got there. I usually leave wondering why though, the range normally has at least one or two lanes without functioning lighting or the (sorry, brain dump here) thingys that you attach the target to that runs it out to whatever yardage that you width to shoot at.

    Hey, looks like you had a great weekend... good deal.

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    1. The indoor shooting range is something like $600 per couple to start and $45 a month... I'll shoot in the woods for free or an outdoor real range for $10.
      For $600+ I will put up with shooting outdoors. That's money I can spend on other things, like ammo.

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    2. Yeah, around here it's about 10 or 15 bucks for an hour. No membership fees. It stays packed.

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  2. Sounds like a really great day. Shooting and baking. Can't get too much better than that!

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    1. Well it could always rain gold... but that would probably dent the car. :)

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