Finally made it to the range

Swood

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As the title says, I finally had a short trip to the range to try out a few new ones to me.

First up is a used SW 439 I picked up for about $300. It had 1 8rd mag and I ended up buying 4 Promag magazines (yeah, I know) just to have something other than the one. I had to sand the back of the mags to get them to even fit in the grip. To my surprise they all work great! All dropped free and all held the slide back after the last round. Pleasent shooting gun that felt very much like the 659 I had many years ago.

Rock Island Armory 200 that I also bought used. A flat black 4" barrel 38 spl revolver that had very little recoil with S&B ammo, but I had a very difficult time staying on target with it. At 3, 7 and 15 yards I stayed on the silhouette, but my grouping sucked.

Rock Island 206.the snubby version of the 200. Snappy little thing, but I did much better with this than I did with the 200. Not sure why. It came with wood square butt grips installed, and the finger grooved rubber grips like the 200 has, but I left the wood grips on.

Tisas 1911A1 US ARMY "Armed Services Family". I had shot this before and had no problems at all with it, but decided to replace the springs with the Wilson Combat springs. Biggest difference felt was that the trigger is a bit smoother and lighter. Great shootin' gun!

This trip was only a half hour long and was meant only to test the newbies out, not for serious marksmanship. Next trip will probably be with the 200 to try to get my aim down with it.
 
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I do a lot of that. Short trip to test stuff. Guns, optics, ammo.

Trip this week was one Shield .40 and two Shield Plus 9MM pistols. Couldn't sight in the laser on the Shield .40 as I had no super tiny allen wrench in my range bag tool pouch (thought I did.) Sighted in the new OSight SE on one Shield Plus and shot the other Shield Plus for the first time. Not a lot of rounds but things worked and they'll get back to the range for more at some point.

Every range trip is a learning experience.
 
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