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You guys do much practice?

I love shooting - sometimes though it seems like I'm running a small factory, loading .308 ammo!

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Not sure if it's practice or not but after the late doe season we'll shift over to varmint shooting for a while. About April start gearing up for high power through the summer. I know what you mean about the factory thing with the .223 and .308 being the main course through the summer.

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Pretty much the same here, I always feel sort of let-down after the end of deer season. Then I get out for coyotes a few times over the winter. Then there's rockchucks and maybe sage rats in the spring. Somewhere in there I might shoot a couple of highpower matches.

Pretty much year-round I try to get one day a week at the range. Use the .22, .308 and the .45 ACP the most. The .308 generates most of my handloading chores.

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During the summer, I shoot at least 3 days per week, But, now that snow has taken over the range, I can't shoot at all.


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Originally Posted by GuyM
You guys do much practice?

I love shooting - sometimes though it seems like I'm running a small factory, loading .308 ammo!

Guy
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Just loaded 10 boxes of 257 Weatherby. Guess I better get to the range and practice so I can load them again.


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Guy, we do the pistol thing too, 45 acp & 38 wadcutter. Have a 25 yd indoor here at home. Kids (adult now) and the other half like the bullseye thing. Used to drive me nuts with ammo until I got a dillon 650 that fixed that.

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This time of year I usually try and get shooting in on the weekends and load ammo during the week. It is just to dark by the time I get home from work to do any shooting this time of year. During the summer though there is a lot more ammo going down range.








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This time of year I'm more likely to shoot a 38 than a 45. It's tough to find brass in the snow.


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doubletap, I wouldn't think it would be too hard to find the 45's in the snow, just look for all of the little holes where they went under.....

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I hear you about brass in the snow. I spread a plastic tarp down which works fine for the 45. I dump the 38 wheel gun in a bucket, so that is not a problem.
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I shoot something just about every day.

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Originally Posted by nmitchell
I shoot something just about every day.

It's GREAT to be retired!

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How true it is...retired in November. I shoot one thing or another every day.
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I shoot at least once a week and try to shoot twice a week, saturday/sunday. I shoot lots of shotgun in the winter and that cuts into my rifle shooting but if I dont get some rifle trigger time at least once a week I get cranky, just ask the wife.......


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I NEED to practice way more offhand shooting.
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Originally Posted by Rancho_Loco
You didn't drink any beer yesterday MORNING.


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Certainly couldn't have hurt this morning!

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