took scout and CarGo out to the woods today. put the red dot on the 556 chassis, (is that better than "platform"?
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pulled CarGo out, switched red dot to his rail, lubed him up, stuck a mag of 300 AAC BLK 220 subsonics into it, plate ding, plate ding, clay gone, gallon of stale cranberry juice, up and spinning, ground sluiced it for a while. changed to 125gr supersonic, ding, ding ding. changed to rem 120gr OTM. ding, ding, ding. boring.
scout was pouting so I put the other stale gallon up the hill a ways and tried to drill it with the 55 grainers. no joy, could I miss that bad? started walking toward the jug, shooting as I approached. finally got close enough to see that the bilge was empty, and when I picked it up there were a dozen holes in it. dead jug.
one thing to note about the pistol. there is hardly any recoil, what's there is straight back, no muzzle flip that I can tell. it's smooth, nothing on the buffer tube and it just slides along my cheek. no bump or torque. I rigged a field expedient sling, the dog's leash, and found the length that lets me push the gun against it forward which helps steady it up, although I wasn't having any trouble hitting without the sling.
I spent more time searching for brass than emptying it. I have to make a catcher or deflecter that will centralize them. But I got about 40 or so 45ACP empties in partial compensation from the guy that shoots from the lane and dumps brass for me.
I am glad to have CarGo and feel very confident it's a good self defender. for a pistol.
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KelTec 9mm carbine is still the house gun because it's much more compact and much less likely to ventilate someone else's house.
All three of these tools are direct responses to the illigitimate, corrupt, lawless, out of control whatchamacallems, to whom I am thankful for opening up the world of spendthrift ammo consumption. My conservative gene finally acquiesed; you have to see it to understand it.
Grizz