Great Range Day!

[planeflyer21]

Went out to babysit a club member, shot an XDM .45 4.5 while watching him.

 

ZERO wind…smoke from gunpowder and burning lube just hung in the air.  Very good low visibility practice.

 

Then, after he left, ran a hundred and twenty rounds through Liberty of the PPU 175gr.  Lost one primer, couldn't find it but had two FTFire afterwards.  Need to take her down and find where it went…this time.

 

Reloaded empty mags (somehow turned into seven), refilled the go-bag, and have one box of the 1,000 round of PPU left.

 

Going to start my .308 HEAVY experiments soon!  

 

So who knows what this design in the sand is from?

 

 

[sketch]

You've landed on the moon!

[Matt.Cross]

 

 

So who knows what this design in the sand is from?

 

 

I know you're going to try to blame it on your muzzle brake, but I know better. That's what you get when you start your day off with too many bean burritos.....  <laughs>  <lmao>

[planeflyer21]

No more bean burritos here.   :'(

 

No muzzle brakes either.

 

Here in Arizona we're MANLY men shooting MANLY guns!  <laughs>

[Rsquared]

Manly huh? Stand directly beside me then when I'm shooting one of the 10's with an AAC brake on it. We'll see....................

Sometimes I "almost" feel sorry for guys on either side of me at the range. Hey.....I said almost.

[Matt.Cross]

Manly huh? Stand directly beside me then when I'm shooting one of the 10's with an AAC brake on it. We'll see....................

Sometimes I "almost" feel sorry for guys on either side of me at the range. Hey.....I said almost.

 

I used to shoot with the Bennie Cooley brake at the range, and when I'd pick my head up off the rifle at the end of my firing string, there'd be about 8 - 10 guys down the rest of the firing line all glaring at me and putting loose gear back on their benches....  <outtahere>

[Rsquared]

<thumbsup>

[bubbasks]

We actually tried ours out at the norcal meet up and decided that the coolie brake as not as bad. Possibly bc of the longer barrel but the worst was the battle comp. Its just. .. stupid

[sketch]

So it's not a blast from a muzzle ?

Edited December 18, 2013 by sketch

[survivalshop]

Lost primers, even you don't see them in there , seem to find a way to screw things up . I had one once that feed into the chamber with a cartridge, took a bit to get it out . Would not want that to happen in a fire fight , that's for sure.

[washguy]

you dropped trou and sat down in the sand? :) Wash

[planeflyer21]

Lost primers, even you don't see them in there , seem to find a way to screw things up . I had one once that feed into the chamber with a cartridge, took a bit to get it out . Would not want that to happen in a fire fight , that's for sure.

 

Prior to yesterday, I've had one get in the trigger group and foul things up and another that got in the barrel locking lugs, which wouldn't let the bolt close.

 

Found a place describing how to stake the primers…gonna give that a try when reloading these.

 

 

you dropped trou and sat down in the sand? :) Wash

 

That probably is what the shockwave would look like!

[Dane Armory]

45 long colt with a 300gr projo.

And 18.8 grains of longshot !

[unforgiven]

Battle Comp I likey.Got 2 5.56 & .308.I can't hear s h i t  anyway.

[planeflyer21]

So it's not a blast from a muzzle ?

 

Yes…but not a brake.  The stock LAR-8 Vortex flash hider.

 

If you look at the photo closely, it appears that there are two relatively straight lines that follow the cuts in the hider.

 

Dug out the fired primer (that popped out of the Pervy Prtizen case) from the trigger group this afternoon.  There was just enough room in the lower receiver for the primer to move a bit.  One way, it got under that front trigger flange, another it would keep the hammer from travelling all the way forward and firing.

 

As you can see from the photos, I had to remove the hammer to get the primer out.  Tried shaking it out to no avail.

 

This happening in a firefight would suck beyond all suckiness.

[bubbasks]

Wow. Ive shot 2k prvi through mine without a popped primer

[sketch]

I suppose a long pair of tweasers go into the range bag!!

Edited December 19, 2013 by sketch

[bubbasks]

Lol ive pulled my entire rifle apart at the range so many times it takes me bout 30 min to take it down completely and back together. Includes barrel and gas block off haha my whole range kit is just about everything i have

[Dane Armory]

The last time I had a primer wedged in the trigger group it turned my gun into a auto!

[PhotonSD]

Never had a primer blow out on any of my weapons, but thanks for the heads up on the tweezers for the range bag. Might also look into one of those cans of compressed air. For making interesting lines in the sand.

[Dane Armory]

Jon is still under the impression that everything works better if it gets blown first ! LOL

[survivalshop]

Small pair hemostats work also , because you can lock them at different clamping pressures .