Just curious, how many recreational shooters on here?

[Zedbra]

For the first several hundred, I would be using heavier 124g bullets to get that recoil spring worked in. I had issues with 115g bullets on my Canik within the first 300 rounds as well. Pump some more through it and let things break-in. A tight fitting 1911 can take a little time to all mesh - but that's a good thing down the road.

I personally don't strip clean my pistols until after a 1000 rounds or more, there isn't a need. I do take a rag and either Ballistol or G96 with me to the range and simply wipe the barrel tip, the load ramp, and the magazines before putting back into my case to take home. Then I leave them until the round count gets up there. My revolvers I will clean the cylinder face better when I get home, but I don't ream anything down the barrel until over a 1000 rounds - there's simply no need and it prevents muzzle wear; I have seen some rifles that had minimal rounds down the tube yet the muzzle needed to be re-crowned as the owners cleaned the heck out of them after every time they took it out.

I wondered about the 1911's without the bushing as to how you pulled the slide. I came across this video, seems like a cool little tool.

YouTube (Short URL)

[roastpuff]

I'll keep using the reloads as they have the heavier 125gr bullets (these guys basically: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/pr...dKKDVvJF6vSuEg) and go through a few more boxes to break the gun in, hopefully these are just break-in problems and they go away. I wanted to clean and inspect the gun to see if there were odd marks or anything that wasn't normal in the feed ramp/barrel area as people mentioned that could be an issue for a 9mm 1911. I found the feed ramp to be absolutely black, and caked on with carbon or residue - it took quite a few patches to see a shiny clean surface, so I figured cleaning it wouldn't hurt any, and might prevent feeding problems in the future.

The Glock I only clean after a couple of range sessions Once the Kimber is broken in I might do the same thing, but still getting used to owning a 1911.

The takedown tool isn't so bad once you get used to it, and in a pinch people say you can use a paperclip to do the same thing. Just have to be careful I guess. I've managed to reassemble it in the wrong orientation (tool facing down) and had to re-field-strip the gun to get it so I can get the tool out lol.

[roastpuff]

Range report!

Went back to the range and ran 6 boxes through the Kimber, roughly 300 rounds. Found that one mag wouldn't lock back consistently when empty - one of the Mec-Gar mags has a slightly different, larger/longer basepad which doesn't seem to seat quite as nicely as the other Mec-Gar mags, and is iffy as to whether the slide lock back when empty. None of the other mags had this issue so I'm assuming it's a fit issue with this particular style of base pad. Going back to Reliable to see if I can swap it for a different Mec-Gar mag with a lower profile basepad.

Had some FTEs - the casing would be partially ejected, but still in the chamber, thus causing the gun to not feed the next round as the casing would be blocking the next round from coming up to feed. I think this is an extractor tension thing? As I'm swinging by Reliable Gun anyway, I'll bring the gun to have them take a look at it as I don't have the gauges to check the tension, and I'd rather not eyeball it.

Other than that, the gun ran quite well and shot really nicely when not having FTE issues. Hopefully once the extractor is tensioned correctly it will be more reliable and not have issues!

[Zedbra]

Nice. I need to get out to the range, might go on Sunday and pump a few hundred 9mm as well.

[incubus]

hopefully everyone is doing good.

figured I'd share sales here.

go tenda has a good deal on the ruger rpr also

[jasonc]

So anyone been to the range recently?

[6793026]

yes i was at Vancovuer Gun Club.. (Richmond) and man 5 stand and shooting skeet is awesome... It's been 2 yrs for me since I shot.

[jasonc]

Isn’t that shotgun only? Bought a m2 over a year ago and haven’t even shot it yet haha.

Anyone a abby member?

[Hondaracer]

Originally Posted by 6793026

yes i was at Vancovuer Gun Club.. (Richmond) and man 5 stand and shooting skeet is awesome... It's been 2 yrs for me since I shot.

We’re they still requiring a separate controller? Ie. a designated person to press the button?

Used to do drop in for their sporting clays all the time but having to have a designated person to press the buttons made us stop going because it meant Somone wasn’t shooting

[Zedbra]

Any of you get out hunting this year? I was able to bring home a bear and a moose, so the freezer is full.

[roastpuff]

Nope, but I did pick up a PC9 and I’m itching to try it out!

[Zedbra]

Originally Posted by roastpuff

Nope, but I did pick up a PC9 and I’m itching to try it out!

Quite popular now, eh. Interested in your opinion on it once you get it broken in.

[Hondaracer]

Originally Posted by Zedbra

Any of you get out hunting this year? I was able to bring home a bear and a moose, so the freezer is full.

Brother and I got a deer each. Mine was a nice 3 point where as he had a huge spiker. Honestly wasnt really what id consider a spike bike as the single tines were like 10" long, kinda weird

[Zedbra]

Originally Posted by Hondaracer

Brother and I got a deer each. Mine was a nice 3 point where as he had a huge spiker. Honestly wasnt really what id consider a spike bike as the single tines were like 10" long, kinda weird

Do you just sausage your deer like so many others?

[Hondaracer]

Originally Posted by Zedbra

Do you just sausage your deer like so many others?

We did..or at least will be lol

Can’t really be bothered with steaks etc. frankly I just don’t find them that tasty.

I’ll cook up the back strap on site but what we’ve been doing for the last 10 years or so is just take the quarters come, cube up all the meat, then either bring to our butcher right away or freeze it and bring it once he’s available

Pepperoni and breakfast sausage this time around. Got around 135lb of meat off the 2 deers. It’s much easier and pleasing to give away to the people we hunt with/friends and family in sausage form lol

[Zedbra]

I just smoked some bacon wrapped Dutch eggs last week, wrapped the eggs with moose sausage I made myself. Half I spiced with garlic pepper and the other half with spicy Italian sausage. I just store the sausage in flat vacuum sealed bags, stuffing them takes forever and then all you can do with it is eat them like a regular sausage.

I can't upload a pic, guess there is a total limit, I'm at 8.64mb of pics. Don't even know how to delete whatever may be in that memory.

Okay, so I went to check and none of my pics were showing and it will not let me add one. Is this forum-wide, or just a special circumstance?

[roastpuff]

Picked up a quite unique 22LR rifle this weekend, a Mauser MS420. 1930s production, very interesting short travel bolt, and shoots like a dream for a ~90 year old gun. Has an interesting assortment of sights - blade front sight, no ramp, flip down buckhorn sights and a peep sight on the back. Plus a Weaver K4-60B on rings.






That was using Eley Action at ~25 yards on a makeshift bench rest (ammo box). I think this gun is a shooter, and has a ton of interesting history.

[Zedbra]

Originally Posted by roastpuff

Picked up a quite unique 22LR rifle this weekend, a Mauser MS420. 1930s production, very interesting short travel bolt, and shoots like a dream for a ~90 year old gun. Has an interesting assortment of sights - blade front sight, no ramp, flip down buckhorn sights and a peep sight on the back. Plus a Weaver K4-60B on rings.






That was using Eley Action at ~25 yards on a makeshift bench rest (ammo box). I think this gun is a shooter, and has a ton of interesting history.

That's a beauty rifle you found there. Our range keeps closing down - extreme fire potential. This makes me want to get the kids out for another .22 and pistol day.

[roastpuff]

Originally Posted by Zedbra

That's a beauty rifle you found there. Our range keeps closing down - extreme fire potential. This makes me want to get the kids out for another .22 and pistol day.

This summer has been so busy with get togethers and summer activities that I haven't gone to the range as much as I wanted. Wife did get her PAL eventually so that's one great firearms-related thing that happened!

As a last hurrah for handguns, I snagged a Jericho 941F ex-Israeli police surplus, it's still on the transfer waitlist so it'll be here eventually but looking forward to trying out the gun.

[Zedbra]

I wanted one of those Jericho's for a long time when I was considering my first 9mm, I liked the weight and low barrel design. However, I jumped right in with my Canik TP9 SFX as a first 9mm and it has been a lot of fun to shoot.

In the middle of all the Covid sh!te, I coordinated a PAL and RPAL course with my wife, son, and a bunch of friends; held it at our Masonic Lodge. My son has his Youth licence and my wife got both her Pal/RPAL, though it took 9 months for her licence to process. I finally got her to call in to see what the hold up was - turns out the CFO wanted to know how long she has been a Canadian citizen. I didn't like hearing that, as it shouldn't matter - all citizens should be treated equal. Anyways, I transferred my Colt 22 into her name as it never really fit my large mitts anyways. Not bad, eh? Wish my first pistol was a Colt. lol

Anyways - the hardware

[roastpuff]

Well, my Jericho finally arrived. It's chunky and heavy but feels so very comfortable to hold. Will take it out to the range once the other letter arrives. Finish is quite beat up so thinking about possible refinishing... and then maybe make a Spike replica.

[nns]

Nice to see this hobby is still alive.

I haven't gone shooting in years, but I still own my firearms.

I think last I heard, Trudeau's attempt to pass some law to restrict firearms ownership even further got struck down last second, but he/someone/something is going to try again soon?

[winson604]

Originally Posted by nns

Nice to see this hobby is still alive.

I haven't gone shooting in years, but I still own my firearms.

I think last I heard, Trudeau's attempt to pass some law to restrict firearms ownership even further got struck down last second, but he/someone/something is going to try again soon?

Ever since they made 2/3 of my shit prohibited I haven't followed too closely. I think they tried to make some last second amendment to the bill to further ban more types of firearms then the hunters among many others lost their shit and finally they backed out. I don't know I haven't gone shooting in 3 years now and my ARs are just sitting there rotting away. Just get this stupid buyback going so I can get it over with. I've also been so afraid to buy anything because it might just get stolen from me too gah.

[Zedbra]

Violent crime at the highest rate in 30 years - all on the uprise in the last 8 years - since we had a Liberal government. Funny how virtue signalling that you are getting hard on guns is only aimed at law-abiding gun owners and the criminals run amock. This hurts all the population - hope it isn;t your family that is affected.

https://nationalpost.com/news/canada...-years-statcan

The uptick in violent crime in 2022 was primarily driven by the rise in homicides as well as an increase in armed robbery (15 per cent) and extortion (39 per cent).

The data, released Thursday, show crimes involving the use of firearms in a threatening or violent manner in 2022 were up for the eighth consecutive year, four-per-cent higher than 2021, and are 60 per cent higher than they were 2013. Firearms crimes related to possession, storage and handling were stable last year, the statistics agency said, after several prior years of increases.

[Blueboy222]

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