bluetopper
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Most of the time it depends on what caliber I have the most reloaded up at the time.
How do you decide which gun/guns to take to the range with you?
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I usually take 3-5 guns to the range. My range bag usually carries a Sig226, a Beretta 92FS, a S&W 4506-1 and a Beretta Cougar. The 226 & 92FS can handle .22, 9mm & .40S&W using conversion kits. This is my normal compliment.
If I feel like a revolver day the 17-6, 18-4, 14-4 and 25-2 may go.
LTC
If I feel like a revolver day the 17-6, 18-4, 14-4 and 25-2 may go.
LTC
Revolver M65
Member
Take the .357 and the .38 Spl then you can use the same Ammo in both.
Saves time and money
Saves time and money
Wyatt Burp
Member
never mind. Wrong thread.
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Vulcan Bob
Member
I usually have a caliber day, such as today will be a 357 Mag, D/A revolver day. then a SA revolver 357 Mag day and so forth. The bottom feeders not so much anymore as Im tired of chaseing brass.
Most of the time I just do a little shooting in the back yard. Advantage of living out of town. If I want to shoot something different, just go back to the house and get it.
Generally, when I go to the local range, it`s to use their nice benches to sight in a rifle or scope. Or just because there are likely to be other shooters there to yap with. And likely they will try out whatever guns I took with me, and I`ll try out theirs.
For me, the local range is as much a social event as a shooting event.
How many, and which guns I take with me depends on how much time I have to spend there.
If I only have a couple of hours, I`ll take a defense gun (to keep up my practice, most likely my Colt Gold Cup) plus a couple of guns to shoot for fun.
If I can make a day of it, I`ll take several guns with me. 3 or 4 rifles and 3 or 4 handguns. At our local outdoor range you can drive right to, and park next to the firing line. So you don`t have to carry the guns and ammo around.
Will likely take a small, medium, and large caliber handgun. Same with the rifles. Which ones? Just whatever strikes my fancy that day.
But the last time I spent a day there, it was a little different.
Couple of guys I work with had asked some questions about becoming members at the local Izaak Walton, so I invited them out there as my guests. See if I could get them to join.
These guys are not big time shooters and gun nuts. One owns only a couple of .22 pistols, the other just a 9mm and a .22 rifle.
Thought I might get them more interested in shooting, so I took quite a load of different firearms for them to play with as well as for my own fun.
Picked out a nice selection of stuff I was sure they had never had the chance to shoot before. Turned out they didn`t even know most of it even existed. They had a ball shooting different kinds of guns, and I had a lot of fun teaching the how each gun worked, how to handle different kinds of guns, ect.
What I picked to take on that outting was
Winchester model 63 .22LR
M1 Garand
Mak-90
Remington 700 in .17 Rem
A sporterized Mauser in .458 Win
S&W 617
Colt Police Positive Target
Colt Diamondback .22
High Standard Victor
S&W 36
S&W 14-2
Colt Python
Walther P1
S&W 624
Taurus PT1911 .45
Mitchell SAA .45 Colt (one of the Uberti copies of the old Colt)
and a S&W model 500
Spent about 7 hours there that day. Most fun I had had in ages.
Don`t know how bad the gun bug bit those two guys. But ever since then, whenever I`ve had a chance to talk to either of them, they have done nothing but ask questions about this or that gun.
Generally, when I go to the local range, it`s to use their nice benches to sight in a rifle or scope. Or just because there are likely to be other shooters there to yap with. And likely they will try out whatever guns I took with me, and I`ll try out theirs.
For me, the local range is as much a social event as a shooting event.
How many, and which guns I take with me depends on how much time I have to spend there.
If I only have a couple of hours, I`ll take a defense gun (to keep up my practice, most likely my Colt Gold Cup) plus a couple of guns to shoot for fun.
If I can make a day of it, I`ll take several guns with me. 3 or 4 rifles and 3 or 4 handguns. At our local outdoor range you can drive right to, and park next to the firing line. So you don`t have to carry the guns and ammo around.
Will likely take a small, medium, and large caliber handgun. Same with the rifles. Which ones? Just whatever strikes my fancy that day.
But the last time I spent a day there, it was a little different.
Couple of guys I work with had asked some questions about becoming members at the local Izaak Walton, so I invited them out there as my guests. See if I could get them to join.
These guys are not big time shooters and gun nuts. One owns only a couple of .22 pistols, the other just a 9mm and a .22 rifle.
Thought I might get them more interested in shooting, so I took quite a load of different firearms for them to play with as well as for my own fun.
Picked out a nice selection of stuff I was sure they had never had the chance to shoot before. Turned out they didn`t even know most of it even existed. They had a ball shooting different kinds of guns, and I had a lot of fun teaching the how each gun worked, how to handle different kinds of guns, ect.
What I picked to take on that outting was
Winchester model 63 .22LR
M1 Garand
Mak-90
Remington 700 in .17 Rem
A sporterized Mauser in .458 Win
S&W 617
Colt Police Positive Target
Colt Diamondback .22
High Standard Victor
S&W 36
S&W 14-2
Colt Python
Walther P1
S&W 624
Taurus PT1911 .45
Mitchell SAA .45 Colt (one of the Uberti copies of the old Colt)
and a S&W model 500
Spent about 7 hours there that day. Most fun I had had in ages.
Don`t know how bad the gun bug bit those two guys. But ever since then, whenever I`ve had a chance to talk to either of them, they have done nothing but ask questions about this or that gun.
I usually take three, minimum. One will be a prospective carry gun,
for when the laws change here, one will be a .22, just because. The third will be a .45acp, since I just got a thousand rounds, and a 1911 and a 45 Chief's Special are just plain FUN! Anything else is spur of
the moment.
Carry gun will most likely be an S&W snub, so it will get more exercise than the rest.
Cleaning firearms is enjoyable, to me, so that doesn't factor in.
TACC1
for when the laws change here, one will be a .22, just because. The third will be a .45acp, since I just got a thousand rounds, and a 1911 and a 45 Chief's Special are just plain FUN! Anything else is spur of
the moment.
Carry gun will most likely be an S&W snub, so it will get more exercise than the rest.
Cleaning firearms is enjoyable, to me, so that doesn't factor in.
TACC1
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Stu1205
Member
Sounds like you had a fun day.
I wish I would have been there.
You have a few I would have loved to shoot.
Too much typing and too little shooting.
Take the three that will be most fun (however you measure it that day).
If you need to practice for defensive purposes make that one of the ones you take.
Take the three that will be most fun (however you measure it that day).
If you need to practice for defensive purposes make that one of the ones you take.
Rawhyde
Member
The Model 41 always goes. 90% of the time, the 14 goes too. Sometimes the .38-44, 686 8-3/8", or the 29 Sihouette tag along too. Typing this, I'm realizing that the Sihouette hasn't been out for a couple of months now...it'll be going out next week.
oldRoger
US Veteran
I shoot .22s at home and so seldom take them to the range except for others to shoot.
So…..it usually comes down to how many I can carry, I can fit 6 handguns in my range bag and usually do, the problem then becomes carrying all of the ammunition.
This easily can get way out of hand, actually it is way out of hand.
So…..it usually comes down to how many I can carry, I can fit 6 handguns in my range bag and usually do, the problem then becomes carrying all of the ammunition.
This easily can get way out of hand, actually it is way out of hand.
Do you have a drywall finisher on retainer or do you do the work yourself?
Usually a K-22 and something in .32 long.
