Range Report Mare's Leg and Friend
Posted: Wed Apr 06, 2016 5:51 pm
I have not been to the range in over a month. I was starting to feel the withdrawal symptoms pretty bad. So what better way to break the drought than to shoot a Henry.
After reading through the recent thread Shooting With Iron Sights by Ditto 1958, I decided to take the old Weaver scope off and give the stock sights a workout.
I shot everything at 7 yards because I didn't want to embarrass myself and get discouraged. I have to say I did better than expected and plan to leave the scope off for a while. I may order the Hiviz front sight from Henry though just to make it easier for me to pick up. The relatively short sight radius on a mare's leg makes the front sight a bit too fuzzy for me.
I started off with some Remington shorts. I love being able to shoot 15 rounds before a reload. I use a small Spee-D-loader it will hold 16 shorts or 11 lr. So I drop loads of 15 and 10 in it and can carry a bunch of ammo.
This little gun really likes the shorts. The first 15 spread out a little more than I liked. The X Square is 2"x 2"
The second string of 15 were tighter.
Next up was CCI standard velocity lr. Ten round "groups" again spread out a bit too much.
The second string of ten tightened up.
After a few more groups I stuck a 2' circle up and got a respectable group.
If it hadn't been for the three that got away it would have been a great group.
Now for the friend, I love this little revolver. It is a Uberti Stallion which is a 7/8 size model. So slightly smaller than a full sized colt clone. Same size as the Heritage Rough Rider 22.
These are all five shot "groups" CCI SV lr. I moved the target in to 6 yards.
First "GROUP" Ha! I did get the one dead center X and three more in the pin....but one went way low.
Second group made me smile a little.
Third group made me grin a bit more.
Final 5 on a 2' stick on I almost had a 1" group if that one hadn't gone high left.
And finally my two pretty cowboy guns. I can't have a bad day when I get to shoot these.
After reading through the recent thread Shooting With Iron Sights by Ditto 1958, I decided to take the old Weaver scope off and give the stock sights a workout.
I shot everything at 7 yards because I didn't want to embarrass myself and get discouraged. I have to say I did better than expected and plan to leave the scope off for a while. I may order the Hiviz front sight from Henry though just to make it easier for me to pick up. The relatively short sight radius on a mare's leg makes the front sight a bit too fuzzy for me.
I started off with some Remington shorts. I love being able to shoot 15 rounds before a reload. I use a small Spee-D-loader it will hold 16 shorts or 11 lr. So I drop loads of 15 and 10 in it and can carry a bunch of ammo.
This little gun really likes the shorts. The first 15 spread out a little more than I liked. The X Square is 2"x 2"
The second string of 15 were tighter.
Next up was CCI standard velocity lr. Ten round "groups" again spread out a bit too much.
The second string of ten tightened up.
After a few more groups I stuck a 2' circle up and got a respectable group.
If it hadn't been for the three that got away it would have been a great group.
Now for the friend, I love this little revolver. It is a Uberti Stallion which is a 7/8 size model. So slightly smaller than a full sized colt clone. Same size as the Heritage Rough Rider 22.
These are all five shot "groups" CCI SV lr. I moved the target in to 6 yards.
First "GROUP" Ha! I did get the one dead center X and three more in the pin....but one went way low.
Second group made me smile a little.
Third group made me grin a bit more.
Final 5 on a 2' stick on I almost had a 1" group if that one hadn't gone high left.
And finally my two pretty cowboy guns. I can't have a bad day when I get to shoot these.