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.

Been getting up before daylight, driving to a friends farm, and shooting as soon as we can see the targets. Once the sun comes up over the tree line, the wind usually starts blowing and it get hot. 95 this morning at 10 am... 98 @ 2 pm

Haven't set up a range at the new digs yet for rifles but the past two weeks I have went out with one handgun or the other for at least a few shots. Trying to get back in the habit of taking at least a few shots everyday.

At the old house I could stretch a cord out of the garage and set up a fan to blow on me while shooting. Nice when it was hot like this. In the winter I could go inside one of my outbuilding which was heated and shoot out the window to 48 yards. Gonna miss that.

Don't have the opportunity to hunt PD's anymore and don't hunt in this type of heat. So, for me,
what's to accomplish? I now look at anything above 80* or below 20* as a time to clean rifles,
reload, etc., waiting it out for more decent shooting conditions. RF barrels don't suffer from this
kind of heat too much, but CF barrels are HOT after four or five shots. Same with my smokeless
ML barrels, and they're not going to shoot the same POI when it cools down. Again, what's to
accomplish?

Well it's suppose to be really nice out this coming weekend but the wife and I are joining two other couples for a weekend of boating and drinking. I figured that's a plausible excuse for not going out shooting. Finialy a break in this heat but it sure looks too late to correct the drought damage across the Midwest.

Between yesterday and today I burned about 500 rounds. Probably more.




Dave

Travis, Targets, varmints or both ???? We shot a few p.dogs yesterday.. Loaded some ammo for sighting in and testing this morn, just as I finished the rain came.. First we have had in mths.. So I can't complain.. Tomorrow...

Just targets, WCH.

My dad is in town so we burned a bunch of powder.




Dave

January and February are my favorite months at the range. When the snow is just about bench height, I have the quiet in between shots all to myself.

I be chasin' bitches and dogs in those months!




Dave

I have a Ruger "Great Eight" to mess with.
Have yet to figure out what RDS will sit on top.
Bushnell TRS 25 is decent, but small tube I dislike at pistol length. Up close to the eye, might make for a decent plinker (the witch has one on her 10/22).
Had an Aimpoint clone 30mm that was great on my TC.
Just wish the TRS25 was a TRS28 LOL.

If I can find a Bushnell Trophy 2X I'll proly just go that route. Finer aiming point might be needed if this pig shoots decent.

I have a Ruger "Great Eight" to mess with.
Have yet to figure out what RDS will sit on top.
Bushnell TRS 25 is decent, but small tube I dislike at pistol length. Up close to the eye, might make for a decent plinker (the witch has one on her 10/22).
Had an Aimpoint clone 30mm that was great on my TC.
Just wish the TRS25 was a TRS28 LOL.

If I can find a Bushnell Trophy 2X I'll proly just go that route. Finer aiming point might be needed if this pig shoots decent.

Yanked the Leupold 2-7X reg off my Anschtuz 184 and put a 4X rimfire Leupold on it. Gotta zero that thing in.
Plus remove a little from Overton stock's forend...........reduce pressure on bbl, see how that does on the '67 10/22 standard.

The ol lady's 10/22 is some grey lam 50th anniv deal she picked up. No doubt she will shoot mine and then want Volq parts in her trigger group.

Cooler weekend, think I might work sat and sun. Miss range day............but kids college books aint cheap (what a racket).

Spent about 5 hours at the range yesterday. The wife is finishing her masters and it's a lot easier for her and me and the kids, if me and the kids ain't at home when she's doing school work. The kids wanted to go to the grandparent's so I dropped them off and went to the range. I took a boatload of rimfire rifles and shot until I was tired of shooting. I got tired of shooting shortly after about 20 guys showed up, all waiting on another guy to show up with all of his full autos...

There was probably $80K - $90K in machine guns and they blasted through at least $2K in ammo while I was packing up my stuff. They were having lots of fun and I can't complain, but it did suck having to wear the extra ear pro. Probably wouldn't of sucked so badly if I'd been offered the chance to shoot some of them, especially the MP-5...

Shot an IPSC match yesterday then shot my Buckmark with a newly added TandemKross compensator just to see if it made a difference and it did.

Went back out today for just a couple of hours shooting 9's and 38's, don't know why I didn't just stay in the a/c and surf the net this weekend. But it did cool off to the low 90's...

My shooting this summer at Phoenix Rod and Gun has included a 115 degree day.

To avoid 100+ is to quit at Easter here. I cool the barrel with ice water, applied via a soaking rag. But hey, there it is a covered bench.

Went out this past weekend with the temp about 90 but with enough humidity for a heat index around 100 testing loads for a 25/06, a 22/250, a 222 Rem mag, a Remington 541-S and a 44 mag so I had enough guns to rotate. It did take a while for the 25/06 to cool between strings. I drank about a quart of water in the meantime. It was worth it; got a couple of groups with the 25/06 of just over 1/2" and some groups with the 222 Mag of around 1/3"... I'll take it.

Well this past weekend the temps were delightful but I was no where near a range.spent the entire weekend drinking and swimming with close friends. I plan on getting out soon and do some much needed range time.

Sorry about this -- I forgot it was the rimfire forum. I do shot a rimfire in the heat, but only cool the barrel of my center fires.

been very hot here in Podunk.........get no enjoyment shootin' dogs in the heat........

finally getting some mid 50* nights & monsoon rains........

September is near..........

We've had some weekend days starting in the early sixties, so I've been getting to the range early, early, early and getting my powder-burning fix early in the day. I can usually get the work done (zero-ing) before another shooter shows up.

Lately, I've been working the rimfires pretty hard, but did check zero on the old Marlin .30/30 the last time I went to the range. Easy-peasy, not too greasy.

Found out that my little Ruger RAR wants a clean barrel or extraction will suffer, too. Harrumph.