I really thought it might be a good morning to go do some shooting and I really wanted to go to the woods - so I skipped the farm and headed to the rock pit.

I was somewhat hesitant because I was concerned someone might be camped in the dispersed campsite above the rock pit or even that someone else might be shooting in the pit. When I got to the pit I was pleasently surprised - no one in the pit and nobody in the camp site above the pit... Good to go...

I decided to take the Super DISC to the pit for a couple of reasons. I have been having a small problem maintaining the headspace on the primers. In fact I was blaming it on Knight tolerances... but I was wrong!!! I do not know why I did not think of this before but it (the movement of the bolt) in the reciever was not because of tolerances... it came down to a worn bolt retaining screw. Never had even thought about this simple answer...

This picture shows the difference between the old and the new.



Shooting this Knight 45 is really almost boring - it is that accurate. But, since the discovery of the retaining screw problems the shoot was well worth the trip.

I walked down to the wall with 8 clay pigeons - placed them on the wall and went right to work on them. I was shooting 110 grs. T7-2f, W209, MMP light tan sabots and 40-200 cal Bloodline. The rifle is still equipped with the $29 BSA 1x4.5-32 scope, but this morning I decided I was going to go ahead and mount a good scope on it. Probably a 3x9-40 Ultimate Slam - but then again maybe a 3x9-40 Bushnell Elite 600 DOA...

This is the gun with the current setup





Eight shots took care of the birds and then another 8 picking off pieces.. which is really fun.



I feel good about my 4th of July fireworks - home now and cleaning has begun...

Everybody have a great and SAFE 4th...

Well it is nice to make some noise. At least your weather was not too hot out there. That is a good shooting rifle. And that load would stop anything you want to shoot at.

Weather, I really did not want to say a lot about it because I know there are a lot of you guys really sweating it out. It was 74 this morning when I left for the pit... When I did get to the pit where I thought it would be cooler the range finder read 76* and it seemed to warm even more after that.

For myself i no that the 70's is cool but when you are not really use to it - it soes seem hot. It is suppose to be in the mid 90's by Sunday and I am not sure a lot of are ready for those temps.

Nice gun and some nice shooting.

Mid 90"s would be a cold front for us.

WIMP! Our low temperature last night was 81*F. It will probably drop to the mid 70s tonight because we're getting a little rain right now.

That's a darn nice looking rifle.

Nice looking rifle good shooting and send the cool weather our way.

Been well in the 90F here for a long time. Tired of looking at the weather station in the evening to see if the dogs and I are going to go on our daily evening walk only to see a heat index from 108F to 143F yesterdays at 6:30PM. we had went 41 days with out a drop of rain, got 7 tenths on the morning of the 3d, another 7 tenths this morning.
Been worring about the people around us setting the woods a fire with fire works now that they made some of the bad ones legal here.

Bees have such slim pickings they havn't stored a drop of honey in the supers. Supposed to drop to the 80's next week so we are going to pull all of the honey supers and store them and try again next year.
Buld more colonies and sell nucs next year to make up the short fall.

We don't have air in our house either so what we get is what we live with.

Al