Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Rimfires Is anyone shooting in this heat?

I guess it depends on where you live but i just cant get myself all excited about going to the range to shoot in this 100+ heat. i have a second 10/22 that i finally got all the parts for but will need to wait a bit before shooting the thing. the range i go to is all concrete slab out to the 100 yrds target and has canted concrete baffles above for protection of high stray bullets from getting away. in years past when i shot there in this kind of heat the mirage was so bad you didn't stand a chance. anyway don't know if my old age these days are making me soft or are there others out there that do not enjoy shooting in the sweltering heat?

9 mm a couple of days back to hot for rifle barrel to properly cool

Yes. Because nobody else wants to.

I'll take 100 degrees over 100 a-holes 10 times out of 10.




Dave

Im shooting trap, skeet and sporting at least twice a week. Do that all year long.

Haven't found a bad time to shoot. One way to snooker the mirage thing is irons or peeps and closer range.

actually a couple years ago we got quite the education on it. i had never really shot in that kind of condition at any distance before and it really showed just how much it can screw with a guy. maybe i'll pull up my big boy pants tomorrow and go out for a while.

Same here. Tomorrow morning 9:00 before gets too bad. Tuesday afternoon sporting clays have been a little rough, but there is some shade. I think a front is coming through here on Monday, so maybe this Tuesday won't be that bad. However, there's never a bad time to shoot.

I'm shutting down the shop now and heading to the range with my wife to shoot a 100 on the sporting clays course. 89 and climbing and 65% humidity.
I have a push cart with a cooler. Hunting season is coming soon and I love shooting my new shotgun.
I'll get there first thing tomorrow morning with my son.

I try to get out there once a week. It's hot but not too bad if you go in the morning and take enough guns to rotate. I went yesterday morning from ten till noon with two centerfire rifles and a 10-22 to plink with so the centerfires didn't get too hot. Had it pretty much to myself.

by 10:00 AM around here it was in the low to mid 90's already.

Had a shooting party on a private range in high 90's w no clouds in the sky.
Guns were blistering hot.
Good time.

Going to range tomorrow, don't care what the temps. Does have covered lines though.
My truck AC doesn't work.
I just hit the conv store a couple miles before the club and get food and water.

I once shot a groundhog, while hunting for them, in over 100 degree heat. He came out of rock pile and was in shade.......til he exploded

Then be at the range at sunrise ..

Having the range to yourself with low wind and cooler temps is a pretty good reason to get your ass out of bed and go shooting

Just snuck in a dozen shots from my airgun between storms. My new putty pellet trap is a winner.

JimHnStl: I have been shooting & Hunting several times during our latest "heat wave" - its been up to 92 degrees twice and above 85 every day for the last two weeks here.
The secret - get ready the night before get up early and Hunt them Ground Squirrels while its cooler in the morning - dittos for my range testing sessions (less mirage also then).
In this instance "the early bird DOESN'T get the warm"!
Hold into the wind
VarmintGuy

Went out yesterday for a few hours. Temp was 94 when I got to the range. Mirage was tough but manageable. We got a really hard downpour for about 30 minutes, so I just sat back and shot rimfire pistols until the rain stopped. Best part, not a single other person on the firing line...

Well the range I go to is run by the MDC (Missouri Department of Conservation) and doesn't open until 10:00 AM so I can wake up as early as I want but I won't be doing any shooting until 10:00
That being said it is a very nice out door range with 20 covered stalls and post out at 7, 15, 25, 50, 75 and 100 yards. They do charge an outragious sum of 3.00 an hour to shoot there and they supply targets and have spotting scopes for loan if you need one.

Shot a steel challenge match today from 10 to about 1, been 100 degrees with a heat index of 110 nearly all week. Wear a big hat and go shoot.

What an awful way to sling birdshot.

You're in my prayers.




Dave

And leave your kghunt in the truck.

If you own one...



Clark

Bring lots of rifles and rotate to let barrels cool. Now is prime time to shoot, before the masses come out and sight in before hunting season.