Fuel System

Really nice new filler pipe setup.

Getting pretty good at bending line. (The really pretty offset 45 "S" bends are all too hidden to get photos)

Roll the truck out and find a whole lot of clean-up to do....

Range Time

There's a family two towns over that has built a shooting range on their farm and opened it to the public. There is a skeet range, two pistol ranges, a black-powder range, and the rifle range. It's operated on a donation basis, and aside from a few common-sense rules, you're left alone.

 

A few friends/co-workers were headed down to shoot after work on Friday, and since I had some free time, I decided to join them. A quick stop at home to grab the 20 gauge and the .22, and it was on my way to the gun shop for ammo. It was easy enough to get the shotgun shells, but .22 ammo is scarce. I've been looking for months for .22, and have always missed the shipments at sporting good stores and gun shops. Finding it online hasn't been successful either.

 

I found some at one of the local gun shops, but they were limiting sales to one box per family. ONE box of 50 rounds was selling for seven dollars. Somebody needs to get cracking and make up a whole bunch of .22 ammo, and soon. (And get it back down to three bucks for 100 rounds, too!)

 

It was a beautiful evening to be shooting and the range was fairly empty. Got to shooting the rifle and noticed that I was hitting four feet to the right of where I was aiming. Went to adjust the windage, and the whole knob broke off from the scope tube. That sucks. I ended up taking the scope and rings off the rails and shooting with the iron sights. Dead on at fifty yards. Turns out that I can't even see the target  any farther away than that without a scope!

 

As I was plinking away with the dinky little .22, there was a guy next to me booming away with his brand-new AR in 5.56 and my friends a little further down shooting a bolt-action .308 and a semi-auto 7.62. It's been a while since I was at a rifle range, and I'd forgotten what a big shock wave was produced when those things are lit off. Still pretty cool...

 

 

We went up to the shotgun range where I got to fire a lot of shells at tiny little flying clay targets, and I learned two things. First is that a single-shot break action is not the gun of choice to break clays. Second is that I really suck at hitting moving targets!

 

When the other guys started breaking out their handguns at the pistol range, I realized that I need to get myself one of those too. (Slim chance in this household, but I did see a really nice and inexpensive 9mm Glock at the gun shop when I was buying ammo. I also saw a nice S&W, and a totally reasonable Springfield XD......)

 

 

Pretty cool to have an awesome range so close to home...