The search for MiniMe’s .22 rifle has ended.
A fellow Hoosier shooter contacted me about selling his rifle. He sent some information about it and we said we’d try it out.
JL had to work today and was passing through the town where he could pick it up. We decided to give him the money for it when we took the rifle, so if MiniMe liked it, the transaction would be over. If not, we’d swap back in a few days.
She liked it. :-D
She and I took our safety stuff and this Savage Mark II over to the range with a few paper plates with stickers on them that I stapled to the stand in front of the berm.
The scope that was on it wasn’t zeroed in, and I don’t know how to do that, but I’ll be looking it up and figuring it out.
We don't have a portable bench rest so the shots were all from standing/off hand from about 45-55 feet away.
I took the first five shots at the orange middle sticker and one black Shoot N’ See sticker. She took two more at that plate and the next one at broken clays that were scattered around the berm. She hit them almost every time and got a big kick out of doing so. There was green plastic bottle on the mound and she decided that needed aerated as well. So she aerated it all the way to the bottom…and all the way across from left to right.
All in all it was a huge hit and there’s no way she was about to say she wouldn’t like to keep it.
We didn’t shoot quite 100…but just under that, and had 3 failures to extract out of all. Could have been the ammo, could have been something I don’t know about, but we’ll figure that out too.
We hope it likes its new home, taking up the last spot on the right;
She's a baseball cap type girl and she loves things that are shades of pink.
Gotta get her the hat...
On a side note, I was kind of bummed to see that the stand was broken at the base. It had to be deliberate and it had to be extremely fresh. Whoever broke it had to be trying hard because it’s a bolted 4x4 across the bottom and it looked like it was stomped or hacked on. Not shot or anything. Weird.
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Cool. Some of the most fun I had with my dad was shooting at the range. I realize that he was either very sneakily or very unknowingly teaching me a lot about life. It's funny but my oldest sister and I both shot all the time with dad. My younger sister hated guns and would never tag along.
Ironic, but she has been a bureaucrat for 25 years+ with a government agency and managed to wrangle her way into a sensitive intelligence position that required her to qualify with a gun but not ever seriously need one. So Uncle Sam gave my sister her very own Glock which she's totally afraid to use but thank God that it will stay permantly in her desk safe. She brought her target from qualification and bragged she didn't finish last: the last guy had to leave 1/2 way through qualifying but still was only a few points behind her. eek. There are targets blind crack addled spider monkeys that can shoot tighter groups. How she managed to qualify is beyond me.
RFC rimfire monkey checking in...
Great sister-story.
I grew up with guns around, but they were never plinked with or used "for fun". The only time I ever remember that happening was one time. My older cousin came to visit for a week and he asked my dad if we could shoot at a milk jug on a hill. Dad let us. I was probably about 9 or 10 and had never shot before. I only knew a few things from being along hunting and doing all the other stuff except shooting. So I mimicked what I'd seen my dad do, and shot the cap off of it. Then my cousin took the rifle away from me and didn't let me shoot again.
ironing boards make great portable shooting benches.just get a spare cover for range use if you are the type that actually irons(seems to be a lost art in todays world).
Hey, that's a really good idea to try!
I probably wouldn't be able to fit the full sized one to travel, but maybe one of the half ones that are meant for dorm use.
Thanks for that tip!!
I do all the ironing for my wife and I now. I love doing it. Pretty cathartic for me. But in college, my first reaction to your comment about the portable ironing board you used in your dorm, my first thought was "you ironed much less bathed in college?!" But then I remembered, you aren't a guy. 8)
3 fte's? Wtf? Might be a broken claw, maybe gunked up. Looks like a nice gun, but that is a lot of issues on only 100 shots, even with wally world green box Rems if that is what you were shooting.
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