Given a few hundred more rounds, a mossberg might have become a close friend of mine....

I danced some bottles down a ditch, and blew up a gallon jug. Between 44 mag and 357, I took the mirror apart on an old car door, and almost tore the rear pillar off of it.

The feel of a weapon matters a lot. I think I expended four hundred rounds, and just got comfortable with the weapons I was firing. I have a lot of respect now for Hornady firearms....

Today was cool!

TIPS: If firing a shotgun under a shoulder, as with a bow - stabilise the gun at the same "Lock-Point". This maintains a useable sight picture.

Quail shot is useful for sandblasting - it don't penetatrate for didly. For target practice it sucks.

 

I haven't gone shooting in years. Kinda miss it.

And your right; bird shot just doesn't do it for me either.

I used to shoot BRI Sabot Slugs, but they weren't cheap and were bought out by, I think Remington.

The only shotgun I had at the time was a Luigi Franchi SPAS 12.

The sabots were more accurate than the regular slugs.

Wish I new how to post pics, cause I have a nice one
the vehicle we bought and used as target practice.

 

I used to use the BRI sabot in my 12 guage for deer.They were very accurate in my gun.Couldn't get them for a year or 2 and then I see Winchester bought them out.That was probably about 4 or 5 years ago.

My new weapon of choice for deer is a 30-30 T/C pistol with red dot scope.

I haven't been shooting for a few months,but I do enjoy target practice and clay pigeon shooting.

 

I try a get out shooting onec every week or so. I have everything from a 10-22 , model 94 30-30, .300 wsm, .243, to my newest, a Ruger super redhawk .454 Casul. It is a BEAST. I love going out shooting.

 

I try to shoot as often as possible. Just recently got into trap. I'm left eye dominant and right handed, so I'm trying to teach myself to shoot left handed.

Springfield 12ga. A5
Ruger 10-22
Ruger Mini 14
AR15 Carbine
38 Special
Walther PPKS
HK USP 40 LE

I'd like to get a Colt 1911 and one of those new Ruger Mark IIIs

 

have you tried blocking your your left eyeglass lens with tape? if one eye is blurry the other takes over. works unless you have a really severe eye dominat problem.
hope your not trying to shoot a right handed auto loader.

 

i went out yesterday and poped off about 200 rounds, just to help get over the worst week of my life.
94-30/30 winchester
94-22
10-22 ruger
1100 winchester.
10 g remington side by side
45 cal hawkin a real one not repo.

 

I've been trying to get out to the stateland around here to shoot but they police have had it blocked off due to a missing person. A range is way too expensive, but I might buy a year pass or something if they don't reopen the stateland soon. I don't shoot anything but a handgun though... but man, do I love my handgun! I don't hunt deer (except with my truck j/k) and I don't really enjoy rifles all that much. Bra straps tend to rest around the same place as the gun in my shoulder and that hurts. But a couple of years ago I did try a little trap shooting and loved it. I'd love to take that up and all, but I'd first need to find a gun I like. Although, you know what's interesting about guns... I've never liked anybody's gun as much as I like my own. I was kind of interested in guns before but lost interest kind of quickly. But this one is mine and I can shoot it for hours. I've had the good fortune to shoot a lot of different guns owned (restored & built by too) by real enthusiasts, but I've never felt totally comfortable with them.
I've got a Springfield XD-40 sub-compact, by the way. Feel free to recommend any relatively low-recoil rifles... I promise I'll check them out when I'm looking for my next gun.

 

I took my 9 yr. old son to the range, yesterday.

I had taken him to a gunshow, back in April, and he saw a "Chipmunk" (22 lr.) and asked me if I would buy it for him.

Would I?!?!?!?!!? "Yes Brad. I'll be glad to!!"

Anyway. . . I put a little 4x scope on it and we finally got a couple of hours to ourselves, and some range time.

I try to teach gun safety as well as marksmanship. (I used to run a High Power Rifle Program for my Sportsman's Club and used to be a rifle/pistol instructor.)

Anyway, I put a target up at 10 yds. just to get him on paper.
I put my "Bull's Bag" on the bench and set up his rifle for him. After the mandatory eye and ear protection is put on, we got out the ammo.
I showed him on a target (on a clipboard) where to hold the crosshairs and to let out his breath and stop about mid-way on exhale, and squeeeeeeze the trigger. Bang!

His first shot was 1" low and 1/4" left.
I told him to do EXACTLY the same thing, again. Bang!
This shot was 1/8" above the first. Let's do this again.
The 3rd shot was touching the first!

I moved the sight over (what I thought was 1/4") and up about 1".
The next three shots were 1/8" left and 1/4" low.
A little 'tweaking' of the scope and he was dead on!!!!!

Brad had the BIGGEST grin on his face.

When we moved the target out to 25 yds, we had to re-adjust the scope a little.
I had him shooting 'groups' (off of the "Bull's Bag") for the next half hour.
When he had the trigger pull down 'pat', I got out a set of 'clangers' and set them up.
This little boy was thrilled to see the 'clangers' spin around on the 'rack'.

I brought out my Remington 541-T (22 lr.) and showed him how accurate it is at 50 and 100 yds.
It is a little big for him, but, with the aid of the 'Bag' he was shooting at and hitting 12 ga. shotshells (empty) at 50 yds., after a little practice.


Ahhhhhhhhh. That's my boy!!!

 

d-ranged
i hear you. my favorit is my s&w model 29, 44 mag. the dirty harry gun.
the state range is 4 miles from my house and it to is way to costly. have a farmer i'm pals with and he lets us shot in his bankrun/sand pit when he's not mining it. man i would hate to see how much lead he screens out