Happy Range Trip

So this morning I headed out to meet Tosh at Huron Valley Guns.  Kinda cold to shoot outside today, and it's a great gun shop, range, and restaurant, and if you need it, a barber shop as well.

They offer an excellent breakfast special - a free half hour of range time with breakfast.

So we had a great and filling breakfast and then headed into the range.

Targets are computer controlled with a touch keypad and you can set the distance in precise meters, yards, or feet.

 First up was to check function and then zero my newest build - The Happy Penguin. 

It is a build similar to the famous Honey Badger, but the Happy Penguin, unlike the Honey Badger, does care, and would hate to miss you.

I had reduced the buffer weights from an H2 to a standard carbine (swaped tungsten for steel) as last week on its first outing it would eject and then not load a round as the buffer was too heavy.  Reducing the buffer weight worked and it now runs like a top.  In 300  Blackout, and nice and quiet running subsonics with the suppressor.  Now nicely zeroed at 25 yards. The SIG Romeo 4S red dot that it is zeroed in can hit the X on a B8 at 25 yards all day long. 

Not a bad build, and it's just in time for ATFE's latest regulation on braces, more on that later.

Then we did some pistol practice. I ran the SIG 320 yet again for its second time out at the range.

First did some 7 yard work and did the timer for first shot from concealment  to an A Zone.  Best run this time was 1.27 seconds, with the average at 1.35. I'll take that improvement over last week's 1.67.  More practice does pay off, and I am committing to practicing more this year.

Bill Drills at 7 got down to a best run of  3.1, all hits, but the time is neither great nor terrible, and offers lots and lots of room for improvement.

Single shot at 25 yards started out horrendously sucky. 

I definitely need more practice and I have certainly been neglecting this drill and skill.  Plenty of room for improvement.  But with practice it ended on a positive note of a hit at 2.19 seconds which is badly slow for that drill, but after a bunch of misses to start with, after settling down and ending with that, I'll take it as a starting point to get better.

In short, lots of fun was had, plenty of room for improvement is established, and it was a great morning at the range.