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I took out my two .357 leverguns this past Saturday, a Marlin CB and Puma, both are 20" barrels. Weather was nice and sunny with a breeze crossing my range from right to left.
I spent a good amount of time shooting my Ruger Single Six and testing the new .22 Mag cylinder I recently fitted. All went well with it and it shoots great with the Mag cylinder.
I had to sight in both leverguns and worked on that at 25 yds. At the end of the day I set up a target at 100 yds. loaded each with 6 rounds of 180 gr. XTP's to see which would turn in the best group. The wind was blowing a little harder by then and it did cause the groups to drift a bit to the left. I was very surprised that the Puma beat out the Marlin, this time around anyways
Sassy came along for a ride.
My cramped range You can see the 25 & 100 yd targets.
My Marlin & Puma
25 yd target.
Out at 100 yds.
Marlin
Puma is the winner on this breezy day.
ScottS
"No arsenal, no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women."
-- Ronald Reagan
Joe, I have been shooting at that spot for years and nobody else has ever found it. My target stands are rebar stuck in the ground that are left there so I don't have to re-measure, I have it set up to 200 yds with plenty of room to go much further if required
It is about a 20 min drive from my house, 10 min black top & 10 min of very rough dirt road.
ScottS
"No arsenal, no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women."
-- Ronald Reagan
salvo wrote:Joe, I have been shooting at that spot for years and nobody else has ever found it. My target stands are rebar stuck in the ground that are left there so I don't have to re-measure, I have it set up to 200 yds with plenty of room to go much further if required
It is about a 20 min drive from my house, 10 min black top & 10 min of very rough dirt road.
I am also very lucky. Between my son and I we own 30 acres of woods and on one property line years ago someone cleared a path of trees about 10' wide. I can get out to about 300' on that one if I want. 90% of the time tho, I just use the 25, 50 & 100 yarder directly behind my house. Those of us with that kind of space live a blessed existence.
I also really like your truck Salvo. We have a Dodge 4x4, a 2000 with the Cummins diesel.
OS, the load is using the 180 XTP and a moderate charge of H110, when I get home I'll let you know the charge weight.
k8bor, sounds like your set up perfect, I have a nice chunk of land in the hills of S. Utah and am looking forward to the day I can shoot off my back porch
My Dodge is a 98 model also with a Cummins, it's the first new vehicle I ever bought myself, been a great truck and hope to have it around for many years to come.
ScottS
"No arsenal, no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women."
-- Ronald Reagan
180 g. XTP - 13.3 . H110 - WSPM
This is a load I have been using for many years, I worked it up for accuracy in an old Security Six and it seems to work well as a good all around load. Wile the 100 yd groups above are not spectacular, considering the wind, iron sights and my 48 year old eyes, I was happy with them.
I remember a post here a little wile ago and if I remember correctly, quite a few people are loading a bit hotter than this, like around 15 gr of H110?
ScottS
"No arsenal, no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women."
-- Ronald Reagan
Joe, as long as the town has not grown out to your old ranges, there probably still there. Some of my older ranges have housing tracks and shopping malls on them now
ScottS
"No arsenal, no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women."
-- Ronald Reagan
I was in Phoenix in '02 on the trip to CA to visit my brother. Just 3 years after I left and I almost did not recognize the place. It had spread so far north and west that I could not believe it. Places that used to be 20 miles out in the county are now annexed into the city. Phoenix surpassed the square mileage of LA before I left, but now, it's insanely huge. That was in '02, what it's like now I have no idea.
Joe
***Be sneaky, get closer, bust the cap on him when you can put the ball where it counts .***
I am still in Phoenix, but fixing to get out.
You don't want to know what it is like now.
You would cry.
If you want to go from one corner to another, you better figure on 3/4 tank of gas.
Cabelas is on the other side of town from me, & I stop & plan the trip over there
When I lived in Phx it took an hour or better to go from Apache Junction to the west side of Phx on the freeway at 65mph.
When last I was there Phx had annexed way out to 27? ave. So I'm sure that takes longer now.
Someday I'm hopping that area just flat runs out of water. That is the only way this insane growth will stop.
I do want to return to the west, but I'm not sure it will be Phx I come back to.
Joe
***Be sneaky, get closer, bust the cap on him when you can put the ball where it counts .***
In the late 60's and 1st half of the 70's I lived in Calif. and hung around Pheonix from time to time because I had relatives there. At that time Glendale was on the outskirts of the outskirts and a lot of the neighborhood back yards opened up into open desert.
I really suffered culture shock when I went out there in 2003 for my daughter's wedding. We stayed in Scottsdale on that trip. Everything I can remember that I loved about that area has been completely compramised. The purple haze hanging over everything, etc. It seems to now be just one big neighborhood from the Pheonix metropolitan area all the way down to Tucson. What a shame, oh well, that's progress.
In the late 60's we used to live near Gilbert and we were in the middle of nowhere......in a corn field with 2 or 3 houses in site. My Dad had the first Air Charter service at Chandler Airport and it was like a ghost town out there....NO ONE wanted to be there it seemed at the time....just desert and fields. Now I guess all of these places are major suburbia and you have to mortgage your firstborn to live there. I didn't recognize the place either when I've went back there these past few years. I've still got 4 brothers there and my Mom(Dad lives North in Flag), but I don't think I could ever go back there to live.
And just to keep this on track, still liking those groups Salvo
But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Romans 5:8
You can see the 25 & 100 yd targets.
