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Took the Miruko Kentucky to the range

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awebbersr

40 Cal.
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Went to the range last Sunday and she was shooting about 4" to the right at 50 yards. Took her home and drifted rear sight to the left. Went out today with .440 balls and .015 ticking and with 30 grns of Goex FFF shot 5 1/4" high at 50 yards but dead center. :wink: Second shot only 2 1/4 " high still centered, so I thought I would run a brush down her before the next shot. As I attempted to pull back up the brush the rod broke. :cursing: End of shooting secession. :surrender: Both shots were well within the 6 1/2 in black center at 50 yards so I am sure she will be good once I get a new rod and dial her in.
 
Those things happen. I started taking stuff to fix to the range and other guns too. Long way to the range just to turn around and come home because of a minor thing.
 
Sounds like it will be shooting right on after a few more adjustments. Sorry to hear about the rod but, I bought a range rod just for that reason. They don't break quite so easily and I save my ram rod for hunting. :thumbsup:
 
I did take along my 54 cal Lyman Plains Pistol. While shooting it I broke my ball starter. I took the hint and left before breaking anything else. :idunno: The range master makes me angle the barrels down range while loading. I think the ball starter was hit at an angle snapping the longer wood in half. :doh:
 
What the heck is wrong with your range officer? I never heard of such nonsense. Does he want to make believe somehow that cant is "a safe direction" to avoid a hazard incident!? You guys should escalate that -- it is actually dangerous as it takes people out of common, standard, proven-safe practices as you yourself experienced.
 
I shoot in the desert so no problem and I don't use wood either. So I decided to forget to bring ramrod instead. I generally leave them with the gun but removed it for some reason. Seems like every time I go any more I forget something or have some kind of problem so I take extra guns with me. That way it's not a wasted trip.
 
Keep this up and we're changing your name to Kamakazi Kentucky Klanker! :wink: :rotf:

Some days chickens, some days feathers...you just had a feather day! :thumbsup:
 
I've seen the woods in your area of Az, very nice. I was raised around woods in northern Ill. Miss the woods, not the snow. Living in Tucson, I have to drive 20 miles to get out were I can shoot unencumbered. Which is one of the reasons I have put 20,000 miles on my smart car in only 1 1/2 years. Shooting at a local range is something new for me at a cost of $6.00 a trip. But I am beginning to think it isn't worth the hassle. :idunno:
 
With my smart car I have to put my Kentucky Rifle part way in the back and run it between the bucket seats. That is why I brought the pistol and not the other rifle,(my 54 cal). :wink: Once I got home I grabbed the broken rod with a pair of vice grips and pulled it out. I'll be getting one of those nonbreakable rods if I can find one thin enough and long enough, (32 1/2"barrel).
 
I usually take my car also because easier on gas. I bought a real old ML with a real long barrel and also a full length Trapdoor Sprinfield and neither fit in my car very good or my truck for that matter because it's not a full size p/u.

Makes it hard and less fun to take out along with all my other gear but I manage.
 
The smart gives me 38 mpg in town and 46 mpg on hwy. My other vehicle is a F150 supercrew 4X4 that gets 12 mpg in town. I let the wife drive the Ford as she mostly stays home babysetting the grandkids. Also the smart only holds two so I can't have them with me. :wink: I usually only take one rifle and the pistol when it is just me shooting.
 
I can drive 6 miles and shoot! Nobody bugs ya either up here, unless they stop to see what the massive smoke is all about! LOL I have only been to a range once, once was enough. Best group I ever got were sitting in my corolla shooting out the door (open door) at a pine tree back stop on a mountain!
 
Been shooting in the desert in Pinal county AZ for over 50 years , don't need no damn range jerk :rotf:
 
I get to shoot off my porch up to 150yds.
Collaborating with neighbor to make a lane down one field to 500y or more.
Life is good in the country after mab=ny years away.
 
As a boy in Fox Lake, Ill. We had a golf course in front of our house and a gravel pit behind. There was a large mound at the end of our property and my dad used it as a range. :thumbsup:
 
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