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Interesting range day..........

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Topic: Interesting range day..........
Posted By: Shamu
Subject: Interesting range day..........
Date Posted: April 28 2012 at 5:02am
Got to shoot a really nice Lithgow & a #5 & I didn't even take an Enfield to the range!Star

Great shooting day & maybe a new member on here if I played it right. story:

Took the metric FAL to the 200 yd range because I want a real 200yd zero. Met a bunch of guys at the 100 yd range, which is also the 200 yd range so I went to ask them how long they were planning on shooting there as (for obvious reasons you can't shoot 200 when all the 100yd points are taken) they were at 100 yds.

We got talking & they were going to back up in an hour or so so we took the dog to the pet store & returned.

I'm setting up & the topic of Enfields pops up because on of them is shooting an Enfield musket. His buddy has a Lithgow #1 MkIII, and a #5!ClapClapClap

Well I got to shoot both & kind of generally futz with the #1. (Small confession) I'm a #4 guy I've never fired a #1Embarrassed. I have heard how the balance is nicer & so on but this was my first real test drive of a #1 & a Lithgow at that. I guess I started with a bang!

It does balance better than a #4, but I just can't get used to the sights! every time I shouldered it I had no front sight. I had to slowly bring the muzzle up till it appeared & then find a sight picture, but it was sweet, very sweet.

The #5 was nice too, nowhere as bad for recoil as I've been told. The 45-70 Trapdoor Springfield was nice too, as was the Enfield musket.

Of course I didn't get anything done on my actual program so I have to suffer & go back tomorrow! Oh well time to take a hit for the team & suffer through it manfully I guess.Big smile




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Don't shoot till you see the whites of their thighs. (Unofficial motto of the Royal Air Force)



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Posted By: Ishapore150
Date Posted: April 28 2012 at 8:44am
Ahh!!Gee!!!Shamu,you gotta back to the range again?? Man,I feel for you brother.I can only imagine what you're putting yourself through........NAAAA!!!! Not really!!!! You were shooting while I was cutting grass all day.Curse you with a Cajun evil eye!!!!.....P.S. Man I'd love to shoot a #5

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Posted By: SW28fan
Date Posted: April 28 2012 at 11:25am
I only had five hours of range time today. Shot my MAS at 200 and my 22 at 100  It is an exceptional 22.

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Posted By: MJ11
Date Posted: April 29 2012 at 12:28am
I have all kinds of trouble with the small thin #1 front sight. Sometimes the best results come when I find my range to the left or right of the bull and then pull it over to center. British target have the btm of the bull in white and the top half in black and it really helps. Or print up some #14's but the range nanny won't let me put them up at Laguna Seca anymore.



Not PC #14



Posted By: Shamu
Date Posted: April 29 2012 at 3:21am
I just tape, or staple a sheet of computer paper across the bottom 1/2. Makes a great tin hat target. just pull it off to score!

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Don't shoot till you see the whites of their thighs. (Unofficial motto of the Royal Air Force)


Posted By: A square 10
Date Posted: April 29 2012 at 11:21am
you have not [till now] shot the no1 and no5 rifles ? WT........ , you have to get in everything you can before the bucket has been kicked


Posted By: Shamu
Date Posted: April 29 2012 at 11:36pm
I'm working on it, even if slowly.

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Don't shoot till you see the whites of their thighs. (Unofficial motto of the Royal Air Force)


Posted By: A square 10
Date Posted: April 30 2012 at 10:04am
hear ya , im working on my list as well , much more dilligently than i was a few years back , ive a couple handful of purchased but not shot guns in my collection-accumulation , i am working on these first


Posted By: Shamu
Date Posted: April 30 2012 at 9:38pm
I have fired the #5 before, but I never actually owned one. I guess at heart I'm more of a shooter than a collector, once I get one of something I look for something different.

I never did understand the "harsh recoil" of the #5, it does kick a bit more than a #$, but nowhere as bad as the FR7/8 or Nagant does.


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Don't shoot till you see the whites of their thighs. (Unofficial motto of the Royal Air Force)


Posted By: MJ11
Date Posted: May 01 2012 at 6:46am
We all need to get out more.




Posted By: Canuck
Date Posted: May 01 2012 at 6:48am
Looks like a nice bright day for shooting practice! How was the wind?


Posted By: MJ11
Date Posted: May 02 2012 at 1:36am
Cold, the range is in a valley that looks down to the open sea so the wind picks up speed as the valley narrows to the shooting points. By noon it's blowing real strong.


Posted By: Canuck
Date Posted: May 02 2012 at 2:42am
I saw your towel on the bench being pushed around by the wind.


Posted By: A square 10
Date Posted: May 02 2012 at 3:08am
my oppinion is the bark of the #5 makes folks imagine the extra bite , i do not note any more discomfort than the no4 nor the no1



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