Trip To The Range

Managed to drag my brother and one of his friends to the range yesterday. Got a chance to workout my rebuilt BAG-day gun(George Bush Jr.) and battle-rifle(Carolynn McCarthy), as well as my Sig220(Paul Nelson).

The BAG-day gun was the surprise of a lifetime. It's a heavy sucker, and my arms still ache from holding it up, but that's my only complaint. Out of 40rds through 2 magazines (detachable mags for this type of rifle are supposed to suck, but Tapco delivered) I had only one jam, and I suspect that was peculiar to that particular round, as it wouldn't feed even after multiple replacements in the mag. Everything else ran wonderfully. I was amazed by this thing - hardly ANY recoil, and the brass (er, steel) didn't fly all over tarnation either, it just flipped gently a few feet to the right). Accuracy was fantastic. Out of 20 rounds, I put everything inside two inches (diameter) at 25 yards, excluding 2 flyers that I couldn't find.

Carolynn was a major disappointment. When she ran, she ran perfectly. When she wanted to misbehave...jam-o-matic. I have never seen this platform jam before. I've never had a problem with it. But I guess even peasant guns can shake your faith, and mine was shaken. We must've had 20 jams out out of 50rds. Of course, we replaced the jammed round in the mag every time, and that might've had something to do with it, because it'd run 15-20 rds before a jam, then fail-to-feed a certain round or two 5 times in a row. I've gotta give her a gasoline bath, clean the dickens out of her, and then reshoot. If it's still a problem, off to Gander we go. Oh yeah and, accuracy was just fine for this particular variety of rifle. 2-3 inches (diameter) at 25. That's still minute-of-chest when you've got the adrenaline dump, and that's a good starting point for me. I'll get better.

Mr. Nelson was fun. Put probably 50rds through him, and he is, as my dad would say A Blaster. You really gotta hang on for the ride, but the Hogues do a good job. Blew an index card sized sticker to bits at 10yds, and that's pretty good IMO.

My brother and his friend were loving the .22 rifle and pistol, and once I'd shot through the expensive ammunition (.45 and ammo for my rifles is a killer on a college student budge, that's why I shoot a ton of 9 when I can, and only run a few mags through the battle-rifles when I take them out), and when I was done with the function testing I needed to do, we had a contest trying to see who could shoot the sticker off a 10yd backstop first. The sticker was an inch square, roughly, and we'd take turns with the .22s.

Tons of good, wholesome fun.