Hey gang, sorry that I haven't posted any blogs in the past couple of weeks. I have had a full plate of things going on and have been trying to decide on the next installment of the A.R.M. series.
Some things that I've been working on and helping with during my writing absence...
My buddy J.'s Mosin Nagant project. He is doing 98% of the work, but when it comes down to pure "hillbilly" gunsmithing....that's me. A little propane, a hammer, and a Dremel press...oh yeah.
I improved the front sight post of the Mossy 702. Two screws, a pair of pliers, and about 120 seconds with the dremel and the sight post is now a lot more "precision" oriented vs. the bulbous affair that it was.
I recently purchased an F1 shooter's chronograph and will be doing some familiarization with it. This piece of equipment is a MUST HAVE for extreme long range marksmanship and hand loading. It is also a piece of equipment that can significantly improve EVERY shooter's knowledge and handling of their own personal weapon. I intend to do a blog about muzzle velocities and how they are affected by different things soon, but I certainly want to have the chrony numbers to show exactly what I am talking about.
I managed to get some subsonic .22lr ammo from my father in law and hope to get to the longer distance shooting range soon so that I can show the accuracy differences between the two rounds, at distance, based on the trans-sonic barrier issues that I have mentioned in the A.R.M. blog. My prediction is that from 50-75 yards, the subsonic will still be grouping fairly well and the bulk ammo will become UGLY in this range. Maybe I can prove myself wrong, but we shall see.
Something that I'd like to touch on with all of this talk about precision marksmanship is the actual process of setting up for the shot and taking the shot, maybe some advanced fundamentals and things that I have used over the years to help myself remember to follow those fundamentals in a step by step fashion. Precision really is all about consistency, and 1/3 of the triangle of accuracy is the shooter. I just can't decide if I want to do it on a written blog with photos or if a video blog would be more beneficial to the readers.
Hunting season is also very close, and this year I fully intend to actually get out in the woods and see if I can't bag some turkey and maybe a deer. The in-laws gave us a nice freezer that has yet to be filled with nature's goodness yet, and I aim to rectify that situation this fall.
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