Shooting in Michigan

greener · Post by **greener** » Sun May 27, 2012 10:06 am

I managed to combine two shooting outings on my trip to Michigan last week.

It was really great to shoot with Oldman and Bear. The down side was his shooting buddy had a new muzzle loader. Hawkin reproduction. Gorgeous stock and a one-ragged hole shooter. Every time I think I've been cured of the temptation to cram powder and bullets down the muzzle, something like this happens. The time was much too short.

bgreene convinced his mom to attend the father-son shootout. It is not true that she outshot both of us, largely because she didn't shoot 1911's or 44 magnum. bgreene came close to losing his "new" M1 Carbine to his mom and I may be in the market for one. bgreene did a fine job of hitting a 2" spinner at 25 yards with my Taurus 94 (2" barrel).

bearandoldman · Post by **bearandoldman** » Sun May 27, 2012 11:14 am

Big greener, Bear and Joe and I are sure glad you had a good time and we enjoyed your company very much.
Little Greener is a bad influence, Every once in a while I think I should also have an M1 carbine and now am thinking seriously about it again. Joe and I shoot quite often about that time of the day and the range conditions are usually about the same, and we love it.
Joe just put that Green Mountain .50 barrel on that gun recently, previous it had a .54 barrel on it. Now it is his #2 meat gun, the other is a .50 also, and yes he really gets into the black powder thing.
Our club has a winter fun shoot in January, consisting of 15 novelty targets at 7 to 25 yards. Two years ago the guy who runs the shoot and is a smith at our local LGS got Joe to shoot some black powder and he got hooked, think he owns 6 or 8 of them now.
This January he won the fun shoot with14of15, missing the last and BIGGEST TARGET. Recently he took 1st in an 8 week woodswalk shoot at a club about an hour or so away. Guy that has been winning it for years dropped out, saying he was tired if always winning and would let someone else win, hoho. Understand when he dropped out he was 4 points behind, maybe tired of winning bu to me sounds like fear of losing honestly.
I keep thinking about a front stuffer myself, but remember my old Nay ARms 1860 and how I hated to clen it and keep on shooting the rifles instead.

bgreenea3 · Post by **bgreenea3** » Sun May 27, 2012 3:46 pm

I knew I was in for trouble when mom shot a one hole.group with greener's 22/45 on the first magazine.......

I had a great time even though mom tried to take my new m1 carbine back to VA with her.....

Post by **Bullseye** » Sun May 27, 2012 4:26 pm

You better watch out your mom is quite a shot. She had considerable practice before you came into the picture bgreenea. She probably took it easy on you fellas since you were all into shooting and stuff. Nice when you can get together with friends and pop a few rounds off.

R,
Bullseye

bgreenea3 · Post by **bgreenea3** » Mon May 28, 2012 4:41 am

we made sure she was at a disadvantage by not bringing any rifles to shoot..... except the m1 carbine

blue68f100 · Post by **blue68f100** » Mon May 28, 2012 8:35 am

Always fun when family gets together at the range.....

Nothing wrong with a little friendly competition.......