SteelCore
04-05-2007, 03:35 PM
Well, it was a shootout at my buddy's place on Fri, Sat and Sun. We rebuilt the berm with his tractor, making it taller and deeper, but not as wide.
We ran rounds thru his M-14, Yugo AK, and my Mosin 91/30, and CETME. We shot all sortsa stuff: Paper targets, an old cracked bronze 20inch crash (a cymbal from a drum kit), clays, steel targets, and a few 'fun' targets, which included a cell phone (sans battery), VCR, and some small propane tanks. :)
I scored my tightest 50yd grouping with the CETME yet on a target: 2inches! There were holse upon holes since I put 20 rounds in the same place. it was amazing.
We shot all different weather conditions, since it is Indiana:
Friday - Sunny, lo-wind (5mph), 75+ deg. F.
Sat - Overcast, rain/drizzle, 60+ deg, no wind.
Sun - Partly cloudy, hi-wind (40+ mph tailwind from 4-5 o'clock) 60deg
On Fri nite, we shot past dusk. THe AK was spitting some flame, but we noted that the CETME's CAI muzzle brake really does well as a flash suppressor too, eliminating much of the flash by redirecting it thru the brake holes and only letting a wisp of hazy orange out the muzzle.
On sat nite, after dinner and shooting we wre in his work barn, looking at the diesel engine he re-worked a bit and refurbed. we ran it , and he was saying how it would runnoff of just about anything...even cooking oil. He started it on diesel, then switched to Wesson! made the shed smell like popcorn...well, then we were drinking some Knob Creek bourbon, and he said it would run on that, too! No way, says I, so he put some in a coffee can and started th fuel lines itn he diesel, then switched it over to the cannistr of bourbon...damned if it didn;t keep running! it did smell a bit, and each time he did this he made sure to start and end with diesel fuel running the engine.
Sunday was so windy, the wind was pushing me and the Mosin around! it was quite challenging, and I still managed a decent group on paper. It was so windy, it blew my cetme which was sitting on its bipod of the picnic table and into the mud! I had to wipe it down. then spray out the receiver a bit...no real grim got in the receiver except it fell muzzle first and packed the brake full of mud. I ran a claning rod thru, so the bore was clean, then blew the dirt from the CAI m-brake holes by putting a round down range...worked like a charm.
Anyhow, that's how range trips are at his place: Shoot, have dinner, drink, gof with the diesel engine, maybe assist in building something or repairing something, watch Tivo-ed shows like future weapons, dogfights, etc. a movie or something, and crash @ his place. It rocks.
We ran rounds thru his M-14, Yugo AK, and my Mosin 91/30, and CETME. We shot all sortsa stuff: Paper targets, an old cracked bronze 20inch crash (a cymbal from a drum kit), clays, steel targets, and a few 'fun' targets, which included a cell phone (sans battery), VCR, and some small propane tanks. :)
I scored my tightest 50yd grouping with the CETME yet on a target: 2inches! There were holse upon holes since I put 20 rounds in the same place. it was amazing.
We shot all different weather conditions, since it is Indiana:
Friday - Sunny, lo-wind (5mph), 75+ deg. F.
Sat - Overcast, rain/drizzle, 60+ deg, no wind.
Sun - Partly cloudy, hi-wind (40+ mph tailwind from 4-5 o'clock) 60deg
On Fri nite, we shot past dusk. THe AK was spitting some flame, but we noted that the CETME's CAI muzzle brake really does well as a flash suppressor too, eliminating much of the flash by redirecting it thru the brake holes and only letting a wisp of hazy orange out the muzzle.
On sat nite, after dinner and shooting we wre in his work barn, looking at the diesel engine he re-worked a bit and refurbed. we ran it , and he was saying how it would runnoff of just about anything...even cooking oil. He started it on diesel, then switched to Wesson! made the shed smell like popcorn...well, then we were drinking some Knob Creek bourbon, and he said it would run on that, too! No way, says I, so he put some in a coffee can and started th fuel lines itn he diesel, then switched it over to the cannistr of bourbon...damned if it didn;t keep running! it did smell a bit, and each time he did this he made sure to start and end with diesel fuel running the engine.
Sunday was so windy, the wind was pushing me and the Mosin around! it was quite challenging, and I still managed a decent group on paper. It was so windy, it blew my cetme which was sitting on its bipod of the picnic table and into the mud! I had to wipe it down. then spray out the receiver a bit...no real grim got in the receiver except it fell muzzle first and packed the brake full of mud. I ran a claning rod thru, so the bore was clean, then blew the dirt from the CAI m-brake holes by putting a round down range...worked like a charm.
Anyhow, that's how range trips are at his place: Shoot, have dinner, drink, gof with the diesel engine, maybe assist in building something or repairing something, watch Tivo-ed shows like future weapons, dogfights, etc. a movie or something, and crash @ his place. It rocks.