Would that Army Base be Fort Hauchuca by any chance?
Yep--Lots of military people around here. I got to see 2 A10 "warthogs" from very close when they flew right over my car about 100 ft up. They fly out of the small municipal airport in Sierra Vista. Our house is in Huachuca City.
One of the wife's nieces lives in Huachuca, we usually stay in the little RV park by the gun shop just north of town. I sure missed that nice range, the BIL shoots at the Fort. Looks like you had a great time and good shooting!
Nice rig!!Shaky, I'd say you hit a home run on that one. Very reasonable distance to drive and looks like a good crowd. Best of all, with that location, you should be able to shoot year round in relative comfort. Oh, we make an occasional winter range trip, but they are always short and never comfortable.
Great work with that CZ.
Love hearing more about your revolvers. I've been slowly, but surely, drifting back more and more to revolver shooting and that includes both vintage and new Smiths along with a new Dan Wesson 715, this year (great revolver) and, of course, my Kimber 357 revolver. In fact, a fair number of range trips, now, are revolver, only for both of us. I'm going more and more to red dots, too, on the newer vintage Smiths because they're so easy to set up with a mount.
Here's a new one for us. It's a S&W JM 625 in 45 auto with a UD 30 for a red dot. I can get factory 45 auto even cheaper than factory 38s and the 625 is every bit as accurate as our best 1911. Total fun and cheap to shoot.
The red dot makes it very easy to shred targets. Those big 45 cal holes help, too.
I've been up to that gun shop twice when they were supposed to be open, and they were closed both times. The motorcycle repair/gun shop is open, but nor the gun shop right next to it, I suppose I could ask about it at the motorcycle shop.
Nice setup and nice shooting. Now I'm debating about taking the Matchdot2 off the Volquartsen Scorpion and putting it on my 629. Then put the Vortex Venom back on the VQ. The 629 wouldn't be overwhelmed by that big Matchdot and it would probably take the 44 mag recoil better. Or maybe I should start putting the 44 mag next to the bed instead. I have some good 44 Spl hp's for it.
I only own one rifle, because I've always shot at 25 yd ranges. (S&W AR) I'll have to bring it next time.
I can personally vouch for Ultradots handling recoil. Have used them on handguns with much heavier recoil than a 44 mag and not a single failure. They're my go to brand for shooting the heavy stuff.
I might just go that way, and make the 44 my "serious" target revolver. The 629 has a better single action trigger than the 686+, and the DA trigger on the 629 is really pretty lousy. So, it might make more sense to have the 629 as a designated target gun and the 686 7 shooter as an SD gun. What's a good rail mount to put on the 629?
Thanks--I bought one on ebay. I looked yesterday and the only Weigand rail I could find was the real short one. It doesn't help when google, android, ebay, and who knows how many others conspire to keep you from finding gun parts.
Go directly to their website, http://www.jackweigand.com Very few places carry their full line. I usually just order direct from them. They're not a very pricey mount, anyway. Won't save all that much by using flea bay. That short version is just the ticket for the micro red dots like the Burris Fastfire, but you'll need the full size for an Ultradot.
Well, I did save $4, and I got it from someone with pretty good feedback, I did find the longer one today. Funny yesterday I searched "Smith Wesson Rail" and the only thing that came up was airsoft guns. Then I looked for "S&W rail" and found the short one. I found it today by looking for "Weigand Smith Wesson."
