Range report

The entire Nielsen clan got some substantial range time yesterday. Doc-wife wanted to blow the crap out of some targets and who was I to argue?

We descended upon my father’s house (and his brand new 400-yard rifle-range-in-progress) for some practice in the fine art of triggernometry (term shamelessly stolen from Western books by British cowpoke JT Edson.)

Guns in hand:

• Sig P220/.45acp
• Sig P230/.380acp
• Kimber CDPII/.45acp
• ASAI One-Pro/.45acp
• Ruger GP-100/.357 magnum (*shooting .38 special)

We went through about 200 rounds of 230 grainFMJ .45acp rounds, 125 rounds of 145 grainSWC .38 special ammo and 20 rounds of .380acp ammo. Shooters included The Rantmeister, Doc-wife, our 17-year-old German exchange student and my 13-year-old son. We were also joined, for the first time, by my 11-year-old daughter, who shot the Sig P230 with very good accuracy.

Favorite guns were the Ruger revolver and the One-Pro. Some family members had a problem with the One-Pro misfeeding. That was solved when we realized the gun is very sensitive as to how it’s shot – any “limpwristing” will result in a misfeed or incomplete closure of the chamber. I must say it’s the easiest .45 I’ve ever shot when it comes to ripping off an entire clip (10 rounds) in a hurry and achieving good accuracy at the same time. The gun is an uncommon, high-quality, Swiss-made weapon, which was imported by Magnum Research for a while.

We had also taken the Bushmaster Varminter AR-15 to shoot, but the blog-son left the ammo sitting on top of the gun safe. That will have to wait for another day.