Monday, May 20, 2013

Sunday, Rangeday

     After a perfectly remarkable breakfast Sunday, Tam, Shootin' Budy, Turk and I were off to Eagle Creek Park Pistol Range.

     For those of you just tuning in, Indy's vast city park has a (weekends only) public shooting range!  (IMPD uses it five days a week).  As befits a big park, it's a big range:

No, bigger than that; this is just Bay 1 of two identical areas!

     I was shooting okay:
     See?
     ...Okay, it was only 25-some feet.

     And here's the stable:
     I left the Combat Masterprice,er,  Masterpiece at home, making room for the little H&R.  Left to right:  Colt Police Positive, Ruger MK II with Pac-Lite upper, H&R and Iver Johnson top-break and High Standard Sentinel.  It counts sequentially: six shooter, seven-shooter, eight-shooter, nine-shooter and a ten-shot semiauto.

     The H&R is new to my collection and has remarkably little felt recoil, more like an air pistol than a .22.  Maybe it's the very small frame.  All are nice but if I could only own one handgun, I'd take the High Standard over the rest: it's got good sights, I shoot well with it and it's never done anything but go "bang!" when I pull the trigger.  (The Ruger/Pac-Lite is nice, but every so often it goes "jam," instead.  I never liked jam.)

     A morning well spent, several hundred rounds downrange. 
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10 comments:

  1. BobMay 20, 2013 at 7:57 AM

    How much jamhave you gotten from the revolvers shown?

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  2. Roberta XMay 20, 2013 at 8:18 AM

    None-- No, wait, that's not true. All of them will sometimes have issues once they get get very dirty if one is not careful to seat the .22 cartridges when reloading.

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  3. Old NFOMay 20, 2013 at 8:29 AM

    NICE!!! And a nice selection to shoot too!

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  4. Turk TuronMay 20, 2013 at 9:11 AM

    Next time I'll bring triple the 22-LR. Fifty rounds is just a warm-up with this crowd.

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  5. Murphy's LawMay 20, 2013 at 10:15 AM

    Very nice, indeed. Way-cool post.

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  6. JohninMd.(too late?!?)May 20, 2013 at 10:44 AM

    Hell, a bad day at the range is better than a so-so day at work.....

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  7. Scott JMay 20, 2013 at 10:53 AM

    Here's some possibly helpful info for your misbehaving Mark II.

    I found it searching Xavier's blog awhile back for articles about my favorite .22

    http://xavierthoughts.blogspot.com/2008/10/mkii-magazine-tweak.html?m=1

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  8. rickn8orMay 20, 2013 at 11:47 AM

    "I left the Combat Masterprice,er, Masterpiece at home, making room for the little H&R."

    I think you've achieved the gunnie's equivalent of "a six-car garage and I STILL have to leave the Ferrari out in the rain."

    Also, yes you did shoot pretty welll; bemind me not to annoy you.

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  9. New Jovian ThunderboltMay 20, 2013 at 8:26 PM

    I like the variety of revolver shapes and stylings. It's a very fine sample. A pleasure to ogle.

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  10. WilsonMay 25, 2013 at 11:30 AM

    A very nice shooting collection.

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