Firearms

Week after week, we put up our silhouette targets and try to shoot them down with our Remingtons.

Before this video starts, Damsel has already put some 20 gauge rounds through the center of the target. My turn came up and I used the 12 gauge to cut the right side of the target away from the top. I reloaded and Damsel stepped to my left side to capture the next two shots which finalized the separation.

Sometimes it takes more shots to get the job done, although we both have cut these targets in half with only five rounds. I think you have to get lucky for that to happen, but it does once in a while.

We didn’t shoot last weekend, mainly because ammunition is in short supply and we’re hoarding ours – like everyone else – until the supply side starts catching up with the demand again. So, we rely on our video therapy for now.

This is a reprise to the shooting session at our range last Sunday. Midweek seems like a good time to pick out a video (I take several each session) and post it here.

The videos come in handy for a couple of reasons. One purpose is to critique our form and style, another is to document anomalies and a third is to post here on our blog for our mutual amusement.

This is one of Damsel’s several runs on the bullseye target with her Warthog. We scored some ‘bargain’ .45 ammunition last weekend, so we took the big caliber pistols to the range.

She loves this little Warthog. It’s been performing quite well as of late, and so is her shooting.

I don’t think I’ve ever had both of our Remington 870 shotguns apart at the same time. Something made me field strip all of the guns after Sunday’s trip the the range.

Damsel’s 20 gauge ‘youth model’ is on the left and my full-sized magnum express 12 gauge is on the right. The barrels are more or less centered between the two.

Scattered along the table, you can see the stock, receiver and magazine assemblies, magazine springs, spring caps, spring stops, magazine caps, trigger assemblies and retention pins for the trigger assembly. The only further field breakdown is to remove the choke tubes from the barrels – which Damsel did when she cleaned the barrels.

If you saw yesterday’s post about the range report and watched the video, then you saw how much we enjoy using the shotguns at the range. Maintenance, cleaning and inspection are all part of the fun of shotguns.

Another Good Day at the Range

We were a little late getting to the range today, what with staying up a little late Saturday night to watch some DVDs. Sleeping in felt pretty good, and the breakfast omelet that Damsel fixed (fake eggs – OK?) was pretty good too.

For the last few weeks, we have been down selecting from the usual menagerie of firearms, mostly due to the increased cost and shortage of some of our ammunition. Today, all we took was the Glock 26 and the S&W 908S 9mm pistols and our two Remington 870 shotguns; one 12 gauge and one 20.

We did the usual pistol and bullseye target practice with about 100 rounds of 9mm spent, and then moved on to the shotguns and silhouette targets. We like to play a game with the shotguns by trying to shoot across the target to cut it in half. Today, the game went well – I started out with five rounds of 12 gauge target loads and cut the right half of the target away from the top. Damsel finished the job with five rounds of 20 gauge, sending the bottom half of the silhouette to the range floor.

I think she likes the game – especially when she wins. Click on the > to play the little video above.