RE: The Thursday kind of Wednesday
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I used to practice with my old Savage .22LR by shooting at spent 12 gauge shells at 50 yards. With iron sights they were just a red blur that the front post mostly covered, I was never happy with my results. Does the red dot still do better than that at the longer ranges? I'm curious, what rounds are you going to be using for the event?
Best of luck to you this weekend! I'm going to go try and sort out what day tomorrow is, it's still Tuesday and we're already talking about the weekend...
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The red dot is probably better as one can drop it down in size, although the intensity goes with it. At 50m I was hitting the 4mm targets (54 yards) in practice a few weeks ago although I had the dot down to its smallest and it was very faint. On a very bright day it might not be possible to drop down that far. Still, on the run and gun stages I'm going to kick ass which will build points for a buffer because I'll lose points on the longer range stages.
There's the rounds I'm using. They have worked really well so far and whilst the coating is bloody annoying they seem to cycle and feed well.
Yeah, Tuesday there, 1420 Wednesday here...For me it's never too early to start talking about the weekend though. :)
Coating? Why do the rounds have a coating? If what I saw when I looked those up was correct, those are subsonics? I can understand why you're using subs, I just half expected yall to be running a really hot round instead.
Run & gun sounds like a it'd be a blast, I'm going to have to find me one of those events around here. You a fan of the modern technique or more of a point shooting approach?
Weekends are never bad to talk about, I just have enough trouble keeping straight what day it is even without the time difference making things more interesting.
It's like a wax coating which helps them run properly but it makes the rounds a little slippery to handle. A pain in the ass, but necessary and fairly common to.22LR rounds. These SK Rifle Match are pretty good, the best I tested and I'm yet to have a jam or mag-feed issue so I'll take them into competition on the weekend based on that. Ballistic data below.
I like run and gun...So many shooters will never get to do it although as I'm an IPSC shooter I do it almost weekly with my handguns and often with my rifles also, like I will be this weekend. I vary my style depending on the event or requirements. In IPSC the point shooting approach wins competitions as the scoring is comstock which divides the points gained minis penalties and divides it by the elapsed time to get the hit-factor which is the score. So, being a little less accurate, but super fast wins events. Point shooting is also much easier with dots which is why IPSC race guns all use them.
I'll be honest though, I'm less about winning events in that way, and more about being a brutally effective shooter. I lean everything I do with guns towards practicality, meaning that I need to be able to take what I'm doing into the field and be effective. That's why I don't shoot my race gun much...A handgun designed specifically to be super-fast in IPSC shooting. In the field, with a spec of dust in it they start to fail.
IPSC is in almost every country in the world and I know you can do it in the States so I'd say maybe hit the IPSC website https://www.ipsc.org/
Interesting, I would have thought the wax would add to the fouling a good deal. I have some Federal match .22LR rounds but they lack the wax coating. Do you notice that much of a difference?
I grew up reading about IPSC competitions but just never made it to one. I'm with you on the practicality, what works in real world situations differs a bit from competitions. Squirrels and targets sure don't behave the same...
This isn't fully relevant but our discussion reminded me of my last trip to the range. The guys at the table next to mine were firing an AR pistol with optics at the same target I was firing up with my .22 (at roughly 100m). While all my rounds hit the target they were managing 6ft groups...their lack of concern about this and their approach to shooting in general has me baffled as to why they were there and what they hoped to accomplish.
The coating can foul up the rifle a little and I'm not a fan of it but it tends to help the way the gun runs. In competition it becomes important I guess. I also have uncoated rounds, but they aren't as good for competitive use.
My range is different to most. It's a practical range meaning there's no shooting line and long rows of benches, just a few. We have a village complex and all sorts of barricades and obstacles. It's designed around IPSC and practical shooting and is a military range, military run, and prioritises military personnel. So...6ft groupings...Lol...Not really a thing at my range although I know what you mean, seen it before. Why bother right?
If you YouTube Keanu Reeves at Taran Tactical that's what I do, but at much greater range as well as close up stuff. I'm a practical shooter at heart. You should check out IPSC up your way. It's a good form of shooting, challenging and hones required skills. (Being an effective shooter is a requirement to me.) 😁
Shoot small, miss small. Mel Gibson's advice to his son in the Patriot. My Dad had that idea, too.
I've targeted lots of shotgun shells. Cheap and plentiful.
Not bad advice at all. In my case it was my granny teaching me...
Dad would just take us down to the Kentucky River when it was getting out of the banks to shoot 'plastic ducks.' The river would pick up tons of trash and carry it downstream, made for great practice with moving targets.