Went Shootin' Tonight

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Darrell
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Went Shootin' Tonight

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We need more shootin' posts! :) As mentioned in the post about the Pachmayr grips, I went to the range earlier tonight. The GP100 did great with the new grips. I shot very well tonight. I hadn't been shooting for some weeks, then shot several weeks in a row, and my shooting suffered for it. I took last week off, then tonight I shot great. Go figure.

A few other possibly noteworthy things:

I'd been shooting CCI standard velocity .22 lately, about all I'd managed to find for sale. It has only so-so accuracy in my Sig Trailside (same as the Hammerli Xesse). I took some Geco .22 tonight, bought it a while back and promptly forgot I had it. :oops: It's the stuff billed for semi-auto rifles and pistols. The ammo is lubed, and dang, I don't know what it is, but it is slicker'n snot. I was dropping it all over while trying to load mags! :lol: The Geco shot very well for me in the Trailside, though, I am impressed. I'll have to keep an eye open for more.

I tried Freedom Munitions for the first time tonight. It's new manufacture 9mm 147 gr FMJ. I wanted to see how the 147 gr stuff ran in the CZs and the JR carbine. I shot the Freedom stuff first, then switched to some Prvi 115 gr I have on hand. Don't know if the 147 gr really had more recoil, but the 115 gr seemed light by comparison. One thing--the Freedom ammo seemed to shoot noticeably to the left compared to the other ammo I usually run. I can understand a vertical offset, but what would make a ammo change POI to one side or the other?

I've been thinking of getting a can for the carbine. I think it would make a great HD gun, and with 147 ammo being subsonic (hopefully), the gun would run quiet. Been looking at the Octane 9 and Osprey 9, Silencer Shop has the Octane for $680, IIRC. That's $100 cheaper than at my range.

Lastly, while perusing the new guns tonight, I saw that they now have the Grand Power K100 X Trim. I got to shoot the Grand Power a few years ago, when STI was importing them as the GP6. I was impressed by the gun at the time, great accuracy, amazingly short trigger reset, plus the rotary barrel action makes it very easy to cycle the slide. The only objection I had to the GP6 was its price--I thought it was $100-$200 too dear for a polymer gun. Well, the K100 X Trim is an upgraded version--fiber optic front sight, nice rear sight, the slide is milled/ported, supposedly has a better trigger than the base version. They're asking ~$780 for the gun, though, which I think is still crazy overpriced. Heck, J&G was offering the base version a while back for $329, IIRC, which I should have jumped on. I gather the Grand Powers are popular competition guns in Europe, and are catching on here. Here's a vid about the gun:

https://youtu.be/NxFiurlI7XY

ETA: Perhaps I was a bit uncharitable--looking around on the web, the X Trim's MSRP is $903. I saw it at several sites going for $730-mid $800s. The price at my range is the member's price; their regular price was $865, IIRC. Hmmm. I forgot to mention that most controls are ambidextrous.
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Re: Went Shootin' Tonight

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By the time I get to purchase a can for any of mine, I'd guess they'll have de-registered them; which is both good, and sad :D
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Re: Went Shootin' Tonight

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If you're right handed, you might be shifting or tightening your grip on the gun enough that your index finger is pushing left on the trigger, or you're "milking" the grip and shifting your point of aim to the left slightly as you prepare for the shot to break.

I know my flinch tendencies get more exaggerated when shooting heavier, slower ammo that recoils more with a push. A small flinch with 9mm stays small when shooting 10mm, but becomes bigger shooting 45. Maybe the switch from 115 to 147gr bullets is enough for a small difference..
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Re: Went Shootin' Tonight

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I'm a southpaw. 8-) I dunno, everything else shot to point of aim, including the .357. I also took the SR1911 along, I was dead nuts with it.

You bring up an interesting point, though, regarding 10mm--I've never shot it. I don't do well with .40 S&W, though I do with most everything else, up to .44 mag. I can only imagine that 10mm would shoot like .40 for me, only more so. All over the place, in other words. :lol:
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