A fine day at the range

[Kurt]

Carol said this morning that it's going to get up to 50 today I want to go and shoot. ? 
Man it didn't take me long to dig out a couple .22 hand guns and the .44-100 rifle I been working on to shallow up the deep grooves that barrel came with. I been lapping the lands tops for more then a year to get the bore/groove more in the ballpark for cartridge rifle then muzzle loader barrel. I been lapping with brass slugs I turned down to a tight bore fit only and been hand lapping on and off for a year to just get the lands down to shallow up the grooves and I think all the hours paid off.

When Carol and I finished emptying several hundred rounds of .22 ammo on the pistol range shooting the laydown steel I had her spot for me to get on paper at 200 yards. I only had a few two year old rounds that I had left over that were loaded with 93 gr of 2F OE and a couple with 90 gr of 1.5 swiss with a 507 gr elliptical KAL bullet. Once I hit paper I raised the sights and put the last 4 of the 2F OE rounds I had left at 4 O-clock off the x ring and made a sight change and shot the three at 12 O-clock with the swiss load and called it a day. 
I think the hours of pushing and pulling that slug through the bore has paid off. Before lapping I hardly was able to keep the holes on the whole target. 
It was a good day with just enough of a breeze the made the windmill just barely move.
I just love it when things are starting to work. Those 4 holes shot with the 2F OE are 3/4" vertical 9/16 horizontal