Trip to indoor range - 01/24/20
Shooting some guns that needed to be shot. Mostly a Colt kind of day with one S&W mixed in.
Needed to test drive the Officers Model Target. This was the first two cylinders, 12 rounds total. 15 Yards offhand. Really have to do something about the grips. Those little grips just don't fit my mitts. I have an old Pachmayr grip adapter that I'll give a try. if that doesn't work, I'll be shopping for grips.
Here's one I'm happy with. First 5 rounds out of a bullseye gun I put together...again 15 rounds offhand. I sold the Bob Day .22 Conversion unit off the Series 70 lower to a guy who used to work and shoot with Bob Day.
So I picked up a pre-Gold Cup NM top end that didn't fit my frame which allowed me to fit the slide, and barrel to the series 70 lower and it came out very nice. Absolutely zero play with the slide, and the Colt NM barrel fit up very well. This was the first 5 rounds out of the pistol. 5 Rounds of Federal aluminum case hardball...I was happy. Shot a little better with Fed 185 Grain Match, but not by much.
So that was my first trip to an indoor range in probably 20 years. I was SERIOUSLY struggling trying to see the front sights on most of the pistols, the lighting was just horrible. I could barely see the front sight on the Python. Just the combination of black on black and the front ramp on the Python just kinda disappeared. The S&W with the red ramp was MUCH better. I think I'll have to pick up a spare front sight for the Python and do a red ramp on it...Might help these aging eyes.
Needed to test drive the Officers Model Target. This was the first two cylinders, 12 rounds total. 15 Yards offhand. Really have to do something about the grips. Those little grips just don't fit my mitts. I have an old Pachmayr grip adapter that I'll give a try. if that doesn't work, I'll be shopping for grips.
Here's one I'm happy with. First 5 rounds out of a bullseye gun I put together...again 15 rounds offhand. I sold the Bob Day .22 Conversion unit off the Series 70 lower to a guy who used to work and shoot with Bob Day.
So I picked up a pre-Gold Cup NM top end that didn't fit my frame which allowed me to fit the slide, and barrel to the series 70 lower and it came out very nice. Absolutely zero play with the slide, and the Colt NM barrel fit up very well. This was the first 5 rounds out of the pistol. 5 Rounds of Federal aluminum case hardball...I was happy. Shot a little better with Fed 185 Grain Match, but not by much.
So that was my first trip to an indoor range in probably 20 years. I was SERIOUSLY struggling trying to see the front sights on most of the pistols, the lighting was just horrible. I could barely see the front sight on the Python. Just the combination of black on black and the front ramp on the Python just kinda disappeared. The S&W with the red ramp was MUCH better. I think I'll have to pick up a spare front sight for the Python and do a red ramp on it...Might help these aging eyes.