I got to go to the range and play!!! I haven't been to an outdoor range in at least the last four years. Camden county has just built a really classy nice extremely well laid out range for both pistols and rifles. My cow!!! The rifle range goes from 50 - 100 all the way to 200 yds.!!! WoooHooo!!! And they will permit me to fire my beloved military rifles from the prone position! My oh my!!! Prone at 200 yds. I am all a twitter with anticipation! Best part is I don't have to paste up paper targets. They've got this electronic setup like the NRA has up at the shooting center. That is going to be a real improvement to me. It means no one has to sit and wait till there is a cease fire so everyone can go paste/change targets, etc. It means I'll be able to practice at 200 yds. w/o someone plunking a round into my target b/c they were not paying attention. Happy! Happy!
Now, on to the pistol range. Paper targets are allowed. No electronic targets as on the rifle range. But ... it has these weird little steel things that flip back and forth when you shot them! Heard about such things. Saw pictures. Never actually had a chance to shoot at such a range. Well, all that changed today! Me and my trusty Ruger Standard Automatic and my Sig 226 Legion paid a visit to the range. I had one small box of Federal Automatch ammo for the Ruger ... and a little 100 rd. Federal value pak for the Sig. I happily fired just about all the .22LR ammo at the flapper plate things. Really fun to have them flip back and forth. Makes me wish there were a 100 rd. magazine for the RSA!!!
The Sig is amazing. I bought it back in 2016. Probably paid to much, but my wife told me it was time to stop trying to get a really good pistol that I could enjoy rather than making excuses for when it gave trouble. That Sig has had a little over 3K rounds through it. No problems of any kind at all. POA = POI using any kind of decent ammo. I've fired questionable reloads produced by companies I've never before heard of as well as steel cased, aluminum cased and brass cased ammo both domestic and imported. That Sig has fired all of it ... including stuff with hard primers ... with complete perfection! I'm shocked. Shocked I say! Once thought only Glock could have delusions of perfection!
Very happily while shooting and having a good time I noticed a fellow who was not having such a good time. He was having some problems getting his pistol to hit where he had it pointed, etc. Nice pistol ... CZ 75 compact. I had plenty of ammo so I stepped down the line and asked if he'd like to try things with my RSA. Not surprisingly, he immediately was gratified by getting good hits. He said it was the first time he'd ever fired a pistol. He had no training, etc. I enjoyed watching him get good results with the Ruger. His mood and attitude improved immediately. I suspect his next purchase will be a good quality .22 LR pistol. That little CZ is a pretty thing, but especially for a brand new shooter, it was probably a handful.
What a wonderful day! The Christmas gift from the church was enough to pay for a one year membership to the range. There is no limit on visits. There are no additional fees, etc. It is only 20 miles from my house .... and from the office it is only 12 miles!!! I figure I can scoot out there on my lunch break ... enjoy maybe 30 minutes of range time and be back in the office by 1 PM!!! Praise the Lord! Sincerely. bruce.
Now, on to the pistol range. Paper targets are allowed. No electronic targets as on the rifle range. But ... it has these weird little steel things that flip back and forth when you shot them! Heard about such things. Saw pictures. Never actually had a chance to shoot at such a range. Well, all that changed today! Me and my trusty Ruger Standard Automatic and my Sig 226 Legion paid a visit to the range. I had one small box of Federal Automatch ammo for the Ruger ... and a little 100 rd. Federal value pak for the Sig. I happily fired just about all the .22LR ammo at the flapper plate things. Really fun to have them flip back and forth. Makes me wish there were a 100 rd. magazine for the RSA!!!
The Sig is amazing. I bought it back in 2016. Probably paid to much, but my wife told me it was time to stop trying to get a really good pistol that I could enjoy rather than making excuses for when it gave trouble. That Sig has had a little over 3K rounds through it. No problems of any kind at all. POA = POI using any kind of decent ammo. I've fired questionable reloads produced by companies I've never before heard of as well as steel cased, aluminum cased and brass cased ammo both domestic and imported. That Sig has fired all of it ... including stuff with hard primers ... with complete perfection! I'm shocked. Shocked I say! Once thought only Glock could have delusions of perfection!
Very happily while shooting and having a good time I noticed a fellow who was not having such a good time. He was having some problems getting his pistol to hit where he had it pointed, etc. Nice pistol ... CZ 75 compact. I had plenty of ammo so I stepped down the line and asked if he'd like to try things with my RSA. Not surprisingly, he immediately was gratified by getting good hits. He said it was the first time he'd ever fired a pistol. He had no training, etc. I enjoyed watching him get good results with the Ruger. His mood and attitude improved immediately. I suspect his next purchase will be a good quality .22 LR pistol. That little CZ is a pretty thing, but especially for a brand new shooter, it was probably a handful.
What a wonderful day! The Christmas gift from the church was enough to pay for a one year membership to the range. There is no limit on visits. There are no additional fees, etc. It is only 20 miles from my house .... and from the office it is only 12 miles!!! I figure I can scoot out there on my lunch break ... enjoy maybe 30 minutes of range time and be back in the office by 1 PM!!! Praise the Lord! Sincerely. bruce.
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