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Old 06-22-2017, 03:13 PM
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The indoor range I belong to is real nice for "senior citizens" (read old...slow...wheel gun guys like me). Annual membership buys me unlimited range time (open to close), reservation of lane choice (Monday - Fri) and some other perks.

When I just want to have simple, plain fun shooting, not for accuracy, not for speed, not mag dump, not wanting "wrist twist" (leave the Model 19 and 28 at home), but wanting a little more bang..........I bring the 38 wheel guns, but only the 4 inchers and the long Tom.

So......Model 10-5 4 inch, Model 15-3 also 4 inch, Model 14-3, 8-3/8", 5 or 6 boxes of PMC Bronze 132 grain FMJ's and just take my time, usually FBI silhouette's, maybe a group to center mass, another to shoulder or elsewhere in torso. I get a lot of fun for my time. Usually no "plastic blasters" anywhere around doing mag dumps and that sort of stuff...so like I said, plain, simple FUN.

Ever notice how a Model 10 with pencil barrel feels sweet yet different after a couple cylinders in the 15 Combat Masterpiece? Ever feel the increase in time on target and better grouping with the bucoo longer tube?

What guns and ammo do you take for plain fun with no pressure at your range? Pictures are mandatory for replies!!!
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Update and correction;

OK..........so I lied! Actually I forgot that I always have my EDC Model 637 on my belt, and yes....towards the end of the fun session, the range is usually empty in all lanes except mine so lights are dimmed if on at all. I'll kill the lights on my target, pull out the 637 and touch off a cylinder or two of +P...just to watch that fireball fan out.

At least it wakes up the RSO who knows me and has been checking his eyelids for holes for the last couple hours.

My correction has to do with 4th para where I meant to say, ever notice the DEcrease in time back on target with the longer tube. Evidently brain sprain or something.
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I carry a Ruger LC9 so any range time I try to shoot a few magazines through it.
For fun either a K22 or Model 18 and then a center fire revolver.
Model 64 3 inch, a K38 , a 681 or a 586 6 inch depending on range, indoor or outdoor.
I especially like the looks of younger shooters with their wonder 9s and such when I shoot a steel gun.
Several have stop to ask questions and seem genuinely interested.
I shoot a 8 inch orange peel target then replace the center with a 5 inch. I don't shoot very long distance mostly 10 yards.
Many of the people with the 9s will use a silhouette target that's ends up looking like it was shot with a shotgun, pray and spray mentality.
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I bring my 617 and shoot a few hundred rounds of .22. Sometimes I bring my 4 inch heavy barrel .38 Model 10 and 50 rounds of ammo.

Most times I'm shooting my Ruger Mark IV for fun.
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For just plain fun I take my Mk II and 10/22. For serious practice I take my carry weapons.
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I bought a CZ P07 then a couple of weeks later a Kadet conversion to .22 kit. Range timeusually consists of 50 rds using 9mm then 75 to 100 just drilling various targets with the .22 kit. Nice to use the same gun for both types of ammo
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Sticking to handguns only, every time I go to the range I take guns just for fun. I might be wringing out my carry guns, like a 6906, CS-9, or a snubby wheelgun but the whole exercise is always just for fun. One can argue that it's only fun if you're not shooting your fighting guns but I consider most of them fighting guns. I suppose if I brought my single action revolvers that is solely for fun. I just shoot the same way at the range all the time, bullseye accuracy, or scoring on an official carry target, or point shooting accuracy. I run the same drills for all my guns. For me that's total fun. There is no pressure on me, even if I am just banging away with carry guns it's fun. It's extremely relaxing, too.

But when I take a combat course of any kind I don't feel pressure, either. It's just fun to learn and practice what you might need for real.

Then, again, I thought Basic Training was fun, too, so what do I know?
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I love my little Beretta 87 for range fun.

22LR is cheap, and a 12" reactive target at 25 yards can be hit a good many times holding 2-handed.

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Where I am there are no indoor ranges and only one outdoor..AZ in the national forest. $50 annual family unlimited access (24 hours, bring a generator for night practices)

But the outdoor has lots of members and competitions are several times a week..

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saturdays 9 am 3 gun cowboy..

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My "Just for fun" guns are my S&W Victory model in .38 S&W and my Astra Constable in .32 Auto.

Ammo is a 148 gn SWC over 2.4 gn Mulwex AP50 N in the .38 and in the absense of Federal factory ammo (the pistol does not like harder primers and misfires with all other factory ammo) 1.8 - 2 gns of the same powder under a 70 gn LRN.
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I've started bringing a 22 along.

Usually my M18-4.

It's nice to see small groups on the target for a change. :-)

I just got a M650 and will probably bring that often.

It sounds like a big gun, and shoots fire like a big gun, but no recoil.

22 WMR is fun.
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Always my 1948 vintage K-22 and whatever 32 or 38 I happen to have ammo loaded for (and can grab quickly out of the safe.) Of course whatever is in the CCW rotation that day if I have some fun ammo available for it should also get a little trigger time.

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With the exception of a couple of magnum rifles, every firearm I own is fun to shoot at the range.

While there are quite a few indoor ranges in my area, I am more of an outdoors kind of guy and prefer a little fresh air and sunshine when I shoot so I stick to the outdoor range.
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Well, it was not too hot today, so this one went to the range with me.
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For fun, I like "big" .380's. Well, big for .380's. Double stack magazines, good sights, and 3" + barrels. The cartridge is just a lot of fun and cheap to reload.

A 13 round Chiappa (Girsan) MC-14 and a 15 rounds Taurus PT 638.
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This is pretty typical for me. I take some revolver: Here a Model 13 wearing Thailand grips. A semi-auto - CZ83 (I was trying to figure out which mag worked better). And some manner of .22: Remington Model 6 single-shot.


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The second reason I bought the recently acquired 66-1 (thread in this section) is for range fun. Only had it out once since I got it last week. Prior to that my main fun gun was my late father's no dash 686.

The other fun gun is my Les Baer UTC hard chrome. Like shooting a laser lol. To be honest it also gets work when I do my routine drills-fun as well .

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I bring my 617 and shoot a few hundred rounds of .22. Sometimes I bring my 4 inch heavy barrel .38 Model 10 and 50 rounds of ammo.

Most times I'm shooting my Ruger Mark IV for fun.
I go to my outdoor club for fun/practice. The price for indoor, + no reloads,getting swept & lit up by some nimrods lazer going around like a disco ball is NOT FUN. It is A/C'd in the heat and I can shoot at closer ranges (Seecamp 32), that's about it. I seem to bring my 617 & mdl 10 everywhere.

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I've been shooting handguns "for fun" for a lot of years now, over fifty, and after all those years I still prefer to shoot .45 automatics over any of the multitude of other guns I have lying around - but I admit I can't think of anything I own that I don't enjoy, except maybe 4-inch .44s with full-charge loads.
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I am in a rotation to dust off all my 22s.
I had a Jennings J22 out last week... Yeah, it's cheap. I really wanted to function test it... it had one FTF Federal plated but ran fine on Win, Rem, CCI minimags.
Next up I'll run some cb caps through the 1909 Lady Smith

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I'd bring my M34-1...

An Ithica M72 lever action 22 (made in W Germany) that has proven to be a tack driver. In recent years, the rights were sold to Henry.

Next in the rotation is a Sig Mosquito & after that a Browning 1911-22.

For another rifle, I'd bring my Anchutz Model 1416D Classic.

If I had a runner to set 100 yard targets, I'd dust off the Savage 340 in 22Hornet.
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Sometimes its rimfire day, K22, Buckmark, maybe the Henry 17 HMR

Other times its go big or go home, S&W 625 45 acp, or Springfield 1911, or Uberti 45 LC, or the Model 57 41mag.

Most of the time at least 1 in 38 spl, either the 66, the 65 LS or the 10 or the 36.
I like variety.
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I'm right there with ya, cmansguns.



Early, likely first year, K-22 OD and late, likely 1945, Victory Model. Yeah the VM's pimped out a bit, but I really don't mind stuff like this, because I figure even though it's not factory-correct, it's period-correct, to the '50s. Like a sporterized '03 Springfield, I figure this is just what a WWII vet would've owned.

Recently I really wanted to do the indoors range thing, because I was having trouble walking fast even with a cane, and didn't want to make everybody else wait for me to get back during target check/change. Normally I don't like them for a variety of reasons, but what are you going to do. (Got some meds now, it's better.)

.22's are always the standby easy-does-it gun, but there's something particularly satisfying in popping off .38 wadcutters in a K-Frame.
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I don't own any guns, any more, that I don't like shooting! They have to be fun right?! I try to bring different ones each range trip, that being said there is always a 1911 or 2, usually a Sig in 9mm or 45 and perhaps a M28 or M66 snubby
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These are the ones that made the trip last week. I took a friend's daughter's boyfriend to the indoor range. He's 20-something, and had shot rifles and shotguns, but never hand guns. Every one of these was a hoot to shoot. We started small with the supremely accurate Hi Standard 106 .22 LR, then the CZ 75 Compact 9mm. After that it was time for .45 ACP Springfield 1911 Range Officer. This turned out to be his favorite. It used to be my "most fun" range gun. These days, the full lug 686-6 6" 7-shooter is the one that always makes the trip, because it always puts a smile on my face. He would not shoot the 629-6 4" .44 Magnum. I don't blame him. The blast made the other targets flap. We were right next to the wall. I'll not do that again anytime soon.
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Always gotta bring the 4" 500 to the indoor range.
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variety is the spice of life; except in women.
at least that's what I tell my wife.

I feel the same way about shooting. lots of calibers, lots of guns.


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Oh yeah!

When it's a revolver, I like my 16-4 (4 inch barrel). I use 32 S&W Long wadcutters... and it's so sweet.

For bottom feeders, (autos), I love my High-Standard Olympic in .22 Short from 1949. I swear you can hit a fly at 10 yards if you give it a chance.

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Outdoors for me..............park like private club about 8miles/10minutes from home in the far "burbs of the Burgh".................for fun .22s ; S&W 15-22, Ruger 10/22 mannlicher, .22 Kits for my Beretta 92 and Browning HP, Model 17/18.......... wife's new M&P .22 C

and a box of ''clays" ........ break the clay......... break the halves.....break the quarters.............................rifles at 50 handguns at 25.


or up to the 100 rifle range for some offhand, sitting and knelling shots at silhouette's............ man or beast.

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Walking in Penn's Woods with my .22 magnum, CZ 452FS/mannlicher .......looking for "varmints of opportunity"!

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I bring the same 14-3 Long Tom as the OP, along with a single-shot 10.5" Chipmunk pistol in .22 Magnum. A box of .22 Mag lasts a long time using the single-shot, and it's a blast (literally) to shoot.
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For wheel gun fun a Mod 65-3 with .38 Spl FMJ. along with a few rounds.357. I also have an easy shooting 5906
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Just for fun, besides the mission like dialing in a load or practice, just for fun?

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Shoots like butter, kind of like a low recoil 1911 and accurate...! Holy smokes!

Of late, for giggles, I like this. It shoots a 400g bullet 1200fps.



480, I have another, but the double action version isn't quite as fun as the single action.

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It's all about fun for me. My only 2 designated "self defense" (Shield 9mm and PPQ-45) don't get shot all that much. People always say you should shoot your SD guns frequently, but I honestly feel like I've shot them enough that it only takes 40 or 50 rds a month with each to keep tuned up.

I never go without my Volquartsen Scorpion, which just passed the 20,000 round mark. Note the 100-8X 50 ft rapid fire.



I usually take 1 or 2 centerfire guns. Lately it's most often my 27-2, 629-6, and or Springfield Range Officer .45.





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My just for the fun of it handguns are a M63 4" kit gun, a M67 also a no dash, and a M41 with a red dot on a 7" barrel. All my S&W's are fun to shoot but these are my favorites for fun and relaxation.
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