TARGET SHOOTING,

[HighlandLofts]

Thank you 96.
We just got home here, it is 7.30pm.
We had a great time up there. The spot we went to is back in the woods about 4 miles. One car went by with a couple of in 8i inner tubes tied to the top of their car to float the little river back in there.

My grandson did good shooting the revolvers and his little Savage 22lr Rascle rifle. He was getting real close to some coke cans full of water and he'd hit them in three or four shots with the revolvers. His Rascle was one shot, one kill. The cans were set up out about twenty yards.
We were shooting at rocks on that far sand bank with the 357 magnum revolvers. I took my 6" GP100, the Smith 686, my Rossi 972 with the compensator and the Ruger Single-Six with the 22lr cylinder.
I took a six pack of coke on ice and I always stop on the way home and let him choose some type of ice cream.


I picked up a partial bucket of steel bullet cases and a partial bucket of old shotgun hulls to clean up the place a little.



This pit is on DR land so you need a Discover Pass, $30 or $35 a year. They have a sign there that explains the do' s and don't. Look what these ads hole people did to the signs.


This glacier is on the mountain right across the narrow valley where we were shooting today. It stays all year, we shoot on top of that mountain about six miles on the other side of the glacier. There is a big cliff back in there and we shoot on the top of it. The road winds up there.
Enjoy the pictures.


The air is nice and clean up there, it is cooler, the creeks, streams and rivers are really nice. We will start fishing for brook trout up there when we start staying up there over night.

 

[96coal449]

That last pic reminds me of my trip up north in the Adirondacks here in NY. Up in the Saranac Lake area. The drive through the snow caps was surreal.
Absolutely breath taking.

 

[HighlandLofts]

There are a butt load of glaciers in this area, Mr, Baker is only about 70 miles north from here, Mr Rainier is about 80 miles south, then Mr Adams is about 200 miles south east and Mount St. Helens is about a 160 miles south. I have been to all four of them.

 

[HighlandLofts]

Today is my grandsons birthday, he turned seven
We will be having his B-day party Sunday afternoon. I will probably get him out shooting early Sunday morning.

 

[HighlandLofts]

We didn't get to shoot last weekend, it is 9.30 am Saturday morning out here and we are loaded up and ready to go shoot.

We are getting a few drops of rain here, hopefully it will be clear up in the mountains, there is one spot I go to that is up in six miles. The road takes us almost to the top or that mountain so we might be above the rain.

I am going to stop at the dollar store to pick up some salt to put out for the deer and other wild life. Next trip I will put a trail cam up there.

If the weather cooperates I will sight in my Ruger 77/357 my ruger Gp100 and my Ruger Redhawk. All 357, I loaded up test bulleted last night, three different powders in increments from starting load to maximum load. Fifteen of each increment, five for wash gun. 16 increments times 15 bullets equals 240 rounds, I doubt I will shoot them all today.

My grandsons shooting name is
RIDGE TOP MARK
He will be getting into cowboy action shooting (three gun) after I buy another revolver for him.

 

[HighlandLofts]

Well it's after 3.30 and we just got home, we took a round about way this morni g. We went to wally world to pick up more targets and I picked up two more clear index card holder for bullet storage and to hold small amounts of brass. They stack nice and you can see in them so you know when you are getting Los.
To thought we might get above the rain at close to 4,000 feet, but we were not so lucky. It was really rocked in, low disability and a light, light perspiration. We didn't get to set up out table, chairs and backstop. I filled soda and beer cans up with water for mason to shoot at with his 22lr Savage Rascle rifle. Then we set out clay pigeons for him to shoot.
The rain got a little heavy so I droppd
the tail gate and lifted the door on the cap and he got on the tail gate to shoot. Then we set out some clay pigeons for targets.
We had some fun and stopped on the way home for him to get some ice cream.





We stopped at a small.little place on the forest serice road where some people like
To shoot. I did pick up a small amount of 9mm, two 223 and one 45acp

 

[96coal449]

I want you, and I'm sure other members here as well, to tell your grandson ..... we are proud of him!

What a great kid he is!

 

[HighlandLofts]

We went shooting again today, we left at 10.45 and got home at 4.30. We shot his savage 22lr Rascle, a full size 22lr single shot, the marlin 17 HMR bolt action, the Ruger 77t357, the 357 Ruger GP100, the 357 Ruger Redhawk, the Ruger Mark 2 -22lr with ten inch bull barrel' stainless of coarse and the Ruger 22lr Single-Six.

I reloaded some 357 with IMR 4227, 158 grain Rainer hollow points. Twenty five to zero it in and then four groups of five from minimum to maximum for the 77/357.

After I shot my test bullets I let my grandson shoot golf balls with it, man do they fly when hit. He hit one for one. I only brought three golf balls. The one pawn shop I go.to.has them 3 for a dollar. They are cheap interctive targets, some times I'll buy a dozen eggs for targets if they are less the $2.other times I will buy the twelve packs of the store brand sodas, throw a few in the ice chest and shake the rest up for exploding targets for the 17HMR.

Some day i,'l pick up some sparklers, light one and set it next to a small close to empty propane cylinder for him to shoot. I seen that on YouTube.

I loaded up fifty 357 magnum bullets for him to shoot, I loaded them with a low charge of trailboss. He whpped right threw them.
He adapted very well to the bigger revolvers. While he shoots I pick up buckets of old steel cases and old shotgun hulls to clean up the place.today i picked up a five gallon bucket of shotgun hulls and a three gallon bucket of steel rifle and pistol cases. The shotgun hulls go in the garbage and the steel cases get droppd off at the steel recycle bin at the transfer garbage station.

We will hit it again this coming weekend. We should have more time to shoot then. He is getting better as he grows, and I don' push the heavy recoil guns on him, they will come as he gets bigger and can handle them.

It sure has been fun seeing him develop his shooting technique, and he is a good shot.

He picked up a pound or so of 357 and 45acp brass that three guys shot there at the sand pit and left. It all adds up. Last fall we picked up twenty-two pounds of brass there.

 

[HighlandLofts]

This is where we went shooting Saturday, it is up top of one of the mountains out here, it is close to 3,700 get above sea level, we shoot up above the cliff.



We set up water filled soda and beer cans and clay pigeons.. A sucky day, it drizzled rain, but we got out of the house for a few hours.

This is our back stop.

 

[Carlos Hathcock]

Finally got the boy out for some serious target shooting at the new club. He seemed to enjoy himself and learned a vaulable lesson. Just because you hit the target once doesn't mean you'll hit it every time.


Got to use his Christmas gift .22e Savage.

 

[HighlandLofts]

Keep him at it and make if fun for him. It make for a great day with the kids.

Do you have any state land that you can take him to and use some home made interactive targets to make it more fun for him and give you the one on one time that really bonds the both of you.

When I lived in New Yorkistan down in the Binghamton area we had our own property shoot on, my uncle and a friend had dairy farms we shot at and we went to the state lands shooting.

Squirrel season was a blessing, we went all the time with 22 rifles. We use to shoot hundreds of them every year.

 

[Carlos Hathcock]

Keep him at it and make if fun for him. It make for a great day with the kids.

Do you have any state land that you can take him to and use some home made interactive targets to make it more fun for him and give you the one on one time that really bonds the both of you.

When I lived in New Yorkistan down in the Binghamton area we had our own property shoot on, my uncle and a friend had dairy farms we shot at and we went to the state lands shooting.

Squirrel season was a blessing, we went all the time with 22 rifles. We use to shoot hundreds of them every year.

I realized after a couple outings that paper targets didn't have the appeal to him as they did to me. This time, I hung up 2 gongs and the club let him pick up / shoot used clays, which he obviously preferred. Pop cans and the like are not allowed so no making them "dance" like when I was a kid.

Plan on getting back out in a week or so and will try to make it more routine.

 

[HighlandLofts]

We just got done with breakfast, we will be loading the guns and gear up to go shooting up in the mountains, on the way we will be stopping by the local gun club to watch the cowboy action shooting for an hour or so.

I have a bunch of soda & beer cans and a few gallons of water, a few eggs and golf balls for my grandson to shoot. I have some clay pigeons in the truck from last Wednesday.
I loaded up fifty 357 bullets for him to shoot last night. 3.3 grains of Trailboss powder and 158 grain Rainer hollow points.

It,s all fun.

Carlos can you take your son out some where so he can shoot cans and other stuff? It would make it more interesting for him.

 

[HighlandLofts]

We just got back home from target shooting, mason used up all of the 22 ammo and fifty 357 bullets. I have to stock up on 22 ammo and 38 caliber projectiles.

Mason with the guns we took out today.



Mason shooting one of the handguns, he shot the Single-Six, the Ruger Mark2, the 357 Ruger GP100 and the 357 Ruger Redhawk.



I picked up another five gallon bucket of someone's garbage shotgun hulls and and about a gallon & a half of bold rusty rifle & pistol cases.

Some one was shooting in theupper gravel pit, on the way out we stopped up there and pi ked up six pounds of brass they left.
Three pieces of 300 win mag, the rest 223, 9mm, 380 and some 45acp.



I have a good size area cleaned up over the past two weeks, it will take a lot of buckets to get it done. I pick the garbage up once I get mason set up to shoot. That cheap magnet from harbor freight was the BOMB to pick that crap up with. You pull that little handle up.and the shotgun hulls and steel cases drop right in to the buckets. I keep tjem separate, the steel cases get dropped off the recycle place, the five gallons of shotgun hulls I put in four plastic grocery bags and toss them in the trash when I get gas or go to the store.


Over all it was a good day, we stayed at the gun club watching the cowboy shooting for about an hour before we went target shooting.



It is going to cost a few bucks to get into that with the guns you need and the cloths.

Waiting for next weekend to get out shooting again.



Saturday I needed some targets so I stopped over to Cabelas, didn't buy any. To expensive for me. But they had the kids BB Gun shoot from noon to 4pm. So we went back at 1pm for mason to shoot there. The guy that was handling the shooting is a retired range master from the prison system in commiefornia. He was really impressed with my grandson. He liked the way he handled the BB Gun, masons grouping was really tight, he loved the way mason told him about going shooting all the time with Papa.

He was really impressed with his shooting skills. It is very rewarding to get positive
Feedback from some one like that.

 

[HighlandLofts]

I loaded up some watered down 357 magnum for the grandson and some 7mmTCU for the contender I just put together and we went shooting this afternoon. We left at 4pm and got home just after 9.30pm.
I took that water jug slough that I made a few weeks ago that holds nine one gallon milk jugs.





We took three Thompson Center Contender, a 22lr, a 7mmTCU and a 35 Remington, Mason's 22lr Savage Rascle, an old Remington 141 - 35 caliber(35 Remington), a Ruger 77/22 Hornet, Ruger 77/357, a really old 22 single shot bolt action 22lr Springfield model 15, a Ruger 77/22 magnum, a 6"stainless Ruger 357 Gp100, a 7 1/2" stainless Ruger 357 Redhawk, a single shot Sheridan 22lr knockabout, a single shot Savage 111 I think looks like a revolver but it is a single shot, a Ruger 22lr Single-six and a Remington XP100 in 7mmBR, and my carry gun a S&W 642.


Mason shot the water jugs with his 22lr Rascle, it stopped in the fourth water jug.he used a Blazer 40 grain solid nose. No damage to the bullet.
Then I shot them with the 7mmBR Contender 14" barrel. It stopped in the sixth water jug and mushroomed up. I was during 145 grain Speer Hot-Cor soft points. Itmushroomed up.
Then we shot the 22 Hornet in to the water jugs. 45 grain soft point,. It stopped in the third water jug. It also mushroomed up
Then mason shot the 17HMR into the water jugs, the bullets had the little plastic tip. It only penetrated the first gallon water jug and the bullet disintegraed into tiny little fragments.

By now we only had six gallo water jugs left I shot them with the 7mmTCU contender. It went through the six water jugs and through the 3/4" cedar board on the back of the water slough.

I have to make another water slough, the 7mmBR busted it up from the sideways pressure when it hit the first jug. The next one I will use 2x6s for the wrap to hold it together in stead of 3/4 inch wood. Live & learn.





Here are the bullets I recovered.
Left to right, 7mmBR, 22 Hornet, 17HMR, 22lr.
As you can see on the 3rd bullet the 17HMR I only recover three little tiny pieces of the bullet.


After we got done shooting we picked up a couple pounds of brass, mostly 9mm a few 45acp and some kind of weird rifle cases.

We had a great time up in the mountains today coming out of the woods we took another picture of Whitehorse mountain across the road where we go shooting.

As you can see it was getting dark, the sun was dropping fast.

 

[HighlandLofts]

I took my grandson out shooting yesterday, we left at 3.30 and got back home a little after 10. It was dark when we left the woods.


Mason got to shoot my Remington 700 in 222.he shot several clay pigeons at fifty yards with it.
He did good on his zombie target with his savage Rascle 22lr, the 22 winchester pump, the Ruger single six and the savage single shot 22 handgun.


WE picked up six pounds of brass other people left behind, I sorted it last night, we got 300 WINCHESTER short magnum, 223/5.56, 9mm and 308. One piece of 7mm magnum and one piece of 45acp.


We had a great time out there yesterday. I promised him we can camp out there in a couple of weeks.

I picked up a full three gallon bucket of steel rifle & pistol cases and 3 - three gallon buckets of old garbage shotgun hulls to dispose of.
A three gallon bucket of shotgun hulls will almost fill.up a plastic grocery bag. I put them in grocery bags and throw them out in the trash cans when I get grss or stop at the store. The steel rifle and pistol cases get dumped in the steel recycle bin at the county trash transfer facility.
Just my little part of cleaning up the woods. There is a ton of old garbage cases out where we go shooting. Some weekend I will take a bunch of plastic buckets and grocery bags and do a decent clean up.
.
This is just a drop in the bucket, there is a shit load of cases there.

 

[Carlos Hathcock]

Went to the range for a couple hours yesterday and spent some quiet time. Took the boy back today and we ran through a good bit of .223. Had some time to have him shoot the Buckmark. Has a red dot and he kept asking why he can see it in the site but not on the target when he looks over the scope!Guess he thought it was some kind of laser. All in all we had some alone time and enjoyed ourselves. No one got hurt, we didn't shoot anyone, we didn't ruin anyone's lives, and a father and son spent time together. How horrible is that?
FUAC.

 

[HighlandLofts]

Carlos most importantly is you had quality time with your son. They find great enjoyment going out and shooting real guns.
How is he doing on the 223?
Nice caliber to get them started in centerfield rifles.
I need a decent scope for the WINCHESTER model 70 - 223 I bought.
Until then my grandson will be shooting my Remington 700 - 222.

Two weekends ago we couldn't get out.
We went last Saturday and they shutdown the shooting on any government owned land due to fire restrictions.
There are numerous forest fires in Eastern Washington, Oregon, Commiefornia and British Columbia.
Our air quality really sucked for a couple of weeks because of the smoke in the air. It looked like over in China. Not even a half mile visibility.
About a quarter mile from.where I took this picture is the Puget sound.
On a clear day you can see the mountains in Canada about seventy-five miles away.
I will post a picture when the smoke gets blown out of here.



Tomorrow I work until.1pm. I am taking my grandson to work with my tomorrow. On the way home we will be stopping at a gun shop, I will see if we can go to his private personal range over the weekend.
I let my grandson shoot a hundred rounds of 22lr last Saturday.
If we can't get to his range we might go up to the gravel pit on the federal.government land and pick.up steel rifle & pistol cases and shotgun hulls. Take some snacks and coke on ice.

 

[Carlos Hathcock]

Hes actually shooting it better than I expected.....sometimes to my dismay as I seem to be struggling a bit lately. If he gets better than he is now he'll be a really solid shooter and I hope his interest continues to grow.

 

[Blimey]

Those mountain views are great.

 

[HighlandLofts]

The wind is coming in and blowing some of the smoke eastrward so we should get some good views again.
The fire restriction is still on so the main federal land sand and gravel pits are out of the question
So I think we Wil stop by one of them and pick up steel rifle and pistol cases and shotgun hulls, then take a ride deeper in the woods for a quiet littl shooting spot. Just take a couple 22s, a 410 shotgun and a couple center fire revolvers.
I grabbed a bunch of buckets from the Safeway bakery a couple of days ago. I will grab more tomorrow.

Last weekend we went about three miles deeper then then the one gravel pit to shoot, I picked. Up all of the shotgun hulls there, not many.
Maybe 1/2 a gallon of them.


If we go tomorrw or Sunday we will kick ass.

I stoppd by the gun shop to see about going to his home range and he has all of his grand kids this weekend.
So we will find a spot that is safe and out of the way.

 

[HighlandLofts]

We got out shooting this afternoon. We left the house at 1pm and got home just before 9pm.

Mason shot 50 - 357 bullets out of three different revolvers, then he shot a hundred 22lr bullets threw a savage single shot handgun, a Ruger single six and an old Ithaca model 49 single shot.
Then he shot twenty-five 410 #7 1/2 shot shells at full store brand soda cans shook up.
He was shooting an old Ithaca model 66 single-shot.





I didn't shoot today, I took my new to me Ruger super Blackhawk 44 magnum, but never took it out of the truck. I picked up two buckets of shotgun hulls and two buckets of steel rifle and. Pistol cases. We did scrounge up a little bit of brass.


We had some quality time together. We seen a small spike blacktails deer while we were waiting for two guys to leave bthe pit who were shooting 12 gauge shotguns.
Yep I picked up the garbage hulls they left on the ground.



This guy was only about 50 yards from the pit they were shooting at. If it were deer season I would of let mason shoot it with the 357 revolver. It was only about 25 feet from the pickup.

 

[HighlandLofts]

This weekend was really busy, today we got to go up in the mountains, we left the house at 3pm. We got home just after 9pm.

There are forest service roads every where out in in the National Forest. A few go up & over the mountain peaks through passes. I always wanted to go over these forest service roads from one side up & over to where it comes out on the other side.
Today we finel did it. What an awesome road trip. It is really remote back in there. The roads twist and turn as they make their way up to the summit. There were only two places where I would like to camp at. One was right along a nice size creek, it should hold some brook trout.
We drove about thirty-five from main road to the main road on the other side.
It was totally aweome and I got to share this long time bucket list adventure with my grandson.

Close to the summit,


Over the summit,



Coming down the other side.


After our road trip we went to a forest service shooting area, I put that in another post.

 

[HighlandLofts]

We got to shoot for about an hour or so. My grandson did most of the shooting, he shot his 22 caliber Savage Rascle, my Rossi 971 - 357magnum revolver, his 410 Ithaca super-single shotgun and the Ruger single six22lr.

Mason shooting the 410,



Mason shooting his Rascle.



The shooting area we shot at,


I got to pick.up two buckets of garbage shotgun hulls to throw away and a bucket of steel rifle & pistol cases to drop off at the recycle center.


It was close to dark when we head home.
Not one time did he ask t o go home, maybe next weekend we might spend the night up in the mountains. . He is looking forwad to it.

We picked up just under a half a gallon of brass, mostly 223/5.56, then 380 & 9mm, one piece of 45acp. It all adds up.
I am going to put it all in a three gallon bucket and wait until I get it full to separate it and clean it up.

One hunting season comes close the guys will be up thete sighting their guns in. Every one and their brother carries a side arm out in the mountains so that will increase as well.

Today was probably one of our best times out, looking forward to.next weekend.
I did get to finely shoot the Ruger 44 magnum Super Blackhawk. I shot one cylinder through it. Next weekend I shoot more, I spent my time there today picking up the trash shotgun hulls and the steel.rifle & pistol cases.
Time well spent.

 

[HighlandLofts]

We got to go shooting today, kind if late. We left the house at 5pm,it just started to rain at the house when we left. Half way to our one shooting spots the rain stopped. It started to piss on us about 45 minutes ago.
Mason got to shoot his Rascle 22 and a few 38/357 revolvers while I picked up garbage shotgun hulls and scrape steel rifle & pistol cases.
I forgot my phone so no shooting pictures this trip.

 

[HighlandLofts]

We took off yesterday afternoon around 4pm for a night up in the mountains. I made a platform even with the inner fenders in the box of the truck to sleep on.
My grandson shot half a box of 357 at the gravel pit when we got there then we went a little deeper in the woods to our camp sight next to a small mountain river.


Here is the river,


We had off &on rain so I hung a tarp off the back of the truck for our table & chairs.

I took dry wool in feed bags for our fire, we roasted some hotdogs, had cherry pie and soda.
Two trucks went by dieting the night, and we heard a owl hooting.

This morning we tore down and reset up at the gravel pit.


We shot together for a few hours in between the rain.i picked up a unch of old shotgun hulls and steel rifle & pistol cases.

Four buckets of shotgun hulls and two buckets of steel cases, I burned a five gallon and a three gallon bucket of shotgun hulls and picked up another three gallon bucket of steel cases.

Masons shooting is getting better, it will get better as he grows bigger. I only let him shoot what he can handle. I have two Rossi 972 z 357 revolvers, we set out a full milk jug of water and shot against each others. That was fun.
I took two hundred 357 cartridges, 50 spl, a box of 410, a 525 pack of 22lr.


He can't wait until our next over night up in the mountains. Next weekend I have a table at a gun show, so maybe the following weekend.

 

[HighlandLofts]

I took in four buckets of the steel rifle & pistol cases to the recycle yard this afternoon. I weighed them before I left the house, 39#, 21#, 42# & 20# for a total of 122 pounds of cases.


It sure makes a difference up at the pit where we shoot, the lower pit is almost done. Another trip or two then we will shoot up in the higher pit and get to cleaning up that garbage.


After we picked up the garbage.



Before picking up. There is a shit load of empty shotgun hulls and steel rifle & pistol cases up there.

No shooting this weekend, we have a table at the gun show Saturday and Sunday.

 

[BDinPutnam]

HL it is a damn shame that people can't be bothered to clean up after themselves.

And then you know the next time they go back they figure the Keebler Elves must've taken care of it, so they just keep doing the same shit.

 

[Acer-m14]

No shooting this weekend, we have a table at the gun show Saturday and Sunday.

what show ?

 

[HighlandLofts]

It is out here in Washington State, I belong to the Washington Arms Collectors. They have lone sometimes two shows a month. I will be taking some 22 rifles, a couple 410 shotguns, a bunch of lee dies, i like RCBS DIES.
Some scopes, and other stuff I have no use for.

Do you want the 7.62x54 dies or what ever they are?