toysoldier
Hunter
With a cloudy, breezy start to the day, and the wife gone to visit family, I thought it was about time I got out to the range. Took my Rossi 92 with new Marble's Ghost Ring Bullseye rear sight and some 158 grain handloads, also a Marlin Papoose with a NcSTAR holosight.
The new sight on the Rossi works great. With a little adjustment, it was shooting right on. With my eyes, it will never be a target gun, but I can hit the vitals of a deer or predator. The Papoose was a different story. After the first shot, the red dot disappeared, and in trying to get it to come back, the on/off switch broke. I took it off and continued with the open sights, which I could see fairly well. It shot well with two of the three magazines I have, but the third may be a lost cause, with FTL and not staying locked in.
Now we come to the practice part of the story. As usual, any time I'm at the range, I empty one or two magazines through my LCP. It had obviously been too long between practice sessions, as my two-hand grip got me a lacerated thumb knuckle with the first shot. I changed my grip, finished the magazine, then started looking through my gear for some tape to put a pressure dressing on the wound. All I had was some hospital-discard fluorescent red anesthesia syringe labeling tape, with VECURONIUM printed every 3/4". I wrapped some around my thumb, then it was off to the store for a few groceries, with a thumb that yelled "Doofus!" :oops:
The new sight on the Rossi works great. With a little adjustment, it was shooting right on. With my eyes, it will never be a target gun, but I can hit the vitals of a deer or predator. The Papoose was a different story. After the first shot, the red dot disappeared, and in trying to get it to come back, the on/off switch broke. I took it off and continued with the open sights, which I could see fairly well. It shot well with two of the three magazines I have, but the third may be a lost cause, with FTL and not staying locked in.
Now we come to the practice part of the story. As usual, any time I'm at the range, I empty one or two magazines through my LCP. It had obviously been too long between practice sessions, as my two-hand grip got me a lacerated thumb knuckle with the first shot. I changed my grip, finished the magazine, then started looking through my gear for some tape to put a pressure dressing on the wound. All I had was some hospital-discard fluorescent red anesthesia syringe labeling tape, with VECURONIUM printed every 3/4". I wrapped some around my thumb, then it was off to the store for a few groceries, with a thumb that yelled "Doofus!" :oops:
