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OC from Central to South

peter nap

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This will probably get nuked because it doesn't involve smog, muggers or irate cops...but what the H, it's how I live.

My day started at 2:00 am. I had the 1911 on and got out of the house at 2:30 and stopped at the Mechanicsville 7-11 for coffee and cigarettes.
I did make the clerk nervous because he was counting his drawer and no one else was around and it was a quarter to three. Didn't say anything, just looked scared.

So on to work. I was hauling a grader box and stopped for breakfast on the way at Chula Junction. It didn't phase the woman there. I got to the farm just before daybreak and changed to the BFR. Graded one of my roads (about a mile long).

Then I went to the range for a while. It was load testing morning. I had over 200 rounds to test in three calibers, two bullet weights each and several different powders.

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I hate to admit it, but the 45/70 with 400 grain JBSP's at 1900 fps, gave me a pounding.

The .308 was next at 100 yards and it went without a hitch, then the 25/06 That needed some distance. I shot a sight in group at 100 yards
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Not great, but OK and I shot them in a hurry. This is the hundred yard range.

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To get two hundred an fifty yards, I had to move a portable stand to the treeline
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After testing everything I had with the 25/06, mu best 250 yard group..

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I'll take it any day because I can't shoot worth a damn anymore:X

On to Victoria. I saaw one Cop there. I was taking pictures and he slowed down enough to wave. Tough place:lol:

Back to the farm and back to the BFR.

I put up a new stand in some newly planted pines.

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And since I have an appointment tomorrow in Richmond, came back to the burbs.

This is how I spend my days!
 

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I'm assuming the "range" is your property? : ) Looks great! Wish my parents had more than the 3 acres so I felt safer about shootin' in the back yard! It's such a haul to drive all the way out to Buckingham/Disputanta everytime we want to shoot the AR/Ak's!
 

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ClumsyCandy wrote:
I'm assuming the "range" is your property? : ) Looks great! Wish my parents had more than the 3 acres so I felt safer about shootin' in the back yard! It's such a haul to drive all the way out to Buckingham/Disputanta everytime we want to shoot the AR/Ak's!
No, It's the gun club I belong to but it's only a few miles from the farm.
 

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peter nap wrote:
After testing everything I had with the 25/06, mu best 250 yard group..

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That's nice shooting in any one's book, Don.

"I hate to admit it, but the 45/70 with 400 grain JBSP's at 1900 fps, gave me a pounding." That is a high speed freight train !!

2:30 AM. You are getting up about the time I go to bed sometimes. :)

Yata hey
 

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Grapeshot wrote:
peter nap wrote:
After testing everything I had with the 25/06, mu best 250 yard group..

"I hate to admit it, but the 45/70 with 400 grain JBSP's at 1900 fps, gave me a pounding." That is a high speed freight train !!

2:30 AM. You are getting up about the time I go to bed sometimes. :)

Yata hey
You assked me once, how I managed to farm, photograph, build and hunt....that's the answer, no sleep:lol:

This week, I'll be working loads up on the 735 CBB.
That 600 grain slug really is a freight train. One should alway use enough gun.:what:
 

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peter nap wrote:
This week, I'll be working loads up on the 735 CBB.
That 600 grain slug really is a freight train. One should alway use enough gun.:what:
Take both hands to load that darn thing.

What do you shoot with a 600 grain, excepting the category "anything I want?" How many feet per do you push that thing and who's shoulder do you use when sighting in?

I have referred to .22 mag derringer as my fly shooter - more sporting to shoot them on the wing, don't you know.

Yata hey
 

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600 GR? That's only slightly "smaller" than the rounds shot from the Browning .50 cal machine gun. THAT is quite a round.

What do you shoot with that? Aircraft, Elephants or bad guys trying to usethe engine block of an F-350 for "cover"... :D
 

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MSC 45ACP wrote:
600 GR? That's only slightly "smaller" than the rounds shot from the Browning .50 cal machine gun. THAT is quite a round.

What do you shoot with that? Aircraft, Elephants or bad guys trying to usethe engine block of an F-350 for "cover"... :D
Don't know yet. I just built it.:(
 
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