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Old 03-09-2006 | 06:24 PM
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Pittsburghunter
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Default What to shoot this weekend?

Saturday I get a whole days worth of shooting at my buddies range temp will actually be around 50 so It is nice to have a pre spring day to shoot. I have two catagories of rifles to shoot and it kinda goes like this.

Obvious,

New Scout .54, Got three different kinds of bullets to try in it (need another tackle box) and I am really excited for two reasons I have never shot a .54 and can't wait to shoot this beast. It will be shot with the open sights for now.

Renegade flintlock, after some so so range sessions I now have a new touch-hole liner (with the 5/64 opening) some 4F priming powder and some workbench experimenting making spark under my belt. I hope to make this thing bark like a percussion gun it is a must we shoot this this weekend. Oh, and my buddy has never shot a flintlock so I am sure this will take up an hour or so.

.32 Crockett, It may be the only roundball shooter that I can enter into a contest on another site. With the long barrel and sight radius I need to try and see what I can do off sticks with this thing. If it fails this weekend the back ups are the Bobcat and CVA Missouri rifle.


The other guns to shoot.

My Scout .50 just because the thing is a tack driver and I love to shoot it.

Encore 209x.50, you know this gun shoots so good I never experiment with it just sight it in and hunt with it. I might want to kick around some different bullets and powders with it but I don't know, she is on the short list.

Norinco M97 with the red dot scope. I have not shot in the barrel yet with this gun so it will stay home. I need the kids to chuck some lead through the bore before I use this for serious range time.

That leaves me with one other experimental gun and you guessed it. The Omega. Right now I have saved it as a bargining chip for other rifles because of how cheap I bought it but I really am curious how well the thing will shoot. It holds fine with the open sights and the trigger is fine as well. I do not care much for the ergonomics of the thing but if it shoots good enough it may make a good present or back up for camp.

Everything else stays home. except may be the Plains Pistol. If I bring to much I will not give each the attention needed to work out loads and all.

I plan on shooting 6-7 hours with only 5 rifles. It will be weeks before I can shoot this much again and want to make the most of it. Like I posted the given may only be changed by a substitute roundball shooter but the "may be" rifles I would like to hear good reasons on what to bring.

Oh, and Cayugad I will bring that bottle of Pinnical that has been left in my truck box for the last 7 months I bought one of those plastic bottle pour spouts so I am going to see if it will shoot. What the heck got all day!!
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