Wheel Guns

Took the Single Six, GP100 Blackhawk and 22A. This was a wheel gun day and the 22A didn't get fired.

Did better for a while with the 9mm cylinder on the Blackhawk, but it had a lot more scatter.

Single Six 61408

I should have done better. Xpert22 seemed ok. Just wanted to pull shots when I didn't need to. Still is a blast to shoot.

GP100 61408

The more I shoot it, the better I like it. Didn't see much difference in my shooting in DA as in SA.

Blackhawk 6-14-08

Great day shooting .38 loads. I think the pistol shoots better with Unique ~4.4 gr/158 gr lrn bullets. Stil got to watch the trigger.

Picking up Brass

Not a great thing to do on a hot day. Fired about 150 rounds of 9mm and must have picked up 250 and some .45's. At about 100 F, it became a touch hot to shoot. Did get some bending and stretching exercises.

Target size

Wasn't doing as well as I would like with the Hunter, on Saturday. Was shooting at a 50' NRA target. Almost everything went into the black (one out) until I put a shoot'n'see 1" patch circle on the target. Groups tightened up considerably. Bigger target, more slop in my aim.

S&W 442

I haven't been terribly accurate with the pistol at 15 yards (about all I've shot with it). Keep the rounds on an 8.5x11 paper. Moved my trigger finger to the first joint and the rounds started hanging around the 8-ring on a 50' NRA target. May have to rethink my trigger finger on some pistols.

M&P9 Trigger finger position

I've been shooting the M&P with the pad of my index finger. Reproducibility has been ok, but greatly improved when I moved my finger to the first joint. Either my concentration improved, or the CT grip is the wrong size for me to control with pad of finger.

9mm Loads S&W M&P

W231 4.0 grains, 125 gr lrn: Excellent recoil and accuracy was good at 15 yards.
Bullseye: 4.7gr 125 gr lrn: A bit stronger than I like. Accuracy was good at 15 yards.
Unique: 4.0 gr 125 gr lrn: Seems a bit off. Nice soft load to shoot, but W231 is better. This seems to be a light load. The Lee loading manual calls for 4.7 gr.