16 July
We had a good shoot tonight. Light wind, warm, and sunny. No bugs other than a hornet circling around Dennis. Dennis shooting the ball-and-dummy drill with his Russian .22:
Matt and Dennis putting some lead down range:
We managed two strings of the AQT. I shot a 176 and a 196. After that Dennis and Matt filled a few magazines with live and dummy rounds. We took turns watching each other for jerking the trigger. Everyone did well as they knew the dummy rounds were in there (somewhere) and that they were being watched.
Next, Dennis had a few targets consisting of scaled gray circles. He described a fourty round course of fire which we all gave a try. There was still plenty of light, but once the sun whent down behind the trees, those gray circles got mighty fuzzy!
It had been such a nice day I neglected to bring any clear eye pro and as a result shot with my sunglasses on. I really paid the price for it on those gray targets.
I also found out that at 25m my new front sight is just as wide as the simulated 100 yard AQT target. Not bad for that target, but it makes for a difficult sight picture on the simulated 300 and 400 yard targets. It looks like I need to have the gunsmith machine the front sight a little narrower.
As it was nearing 8:00 pm, we finished up with ringing the big piece of steel at 100 yards. Well, with .22s it was more like a "ting".
All in all a great evening busting caps!!!
Thanks to Matt and Dennis!