Archive for the ‘Range Reports’ Category
Friday, October 28th, 2011
44,461 rounds
8 stoppages
(+1 w/non-LCI extractor)
0 malfunctions
1 parts breakages
As mentioned in the comments of last week's update, I decided to give in and install a Lone Wolf 3.5# connector in the test gun this week. Photo at left is courtesy of Dillon Precision.
I'd hit a serious plateau and was struggling ...
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Saturday, October 22nd, 2011
43,693 rounds
8 stoppages
(+1 w/non-LCI extractor)
0 malfunctions
1 parts breakages
Quite a few rounds went downrange over the past week with four separate trips to the range.
Before the last range session, I swapped out my Trijicon HD sights for a set of Warren/Sevigny 2-dot. I repainted the white ring around the front ...
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Saturday, October 15th, 2011
40,936 rounds
8 stoppages
(+1 w/non-LCI extractor)
0 malfunctions
1 parts breakages
Proving once again that cleaning guns is bad, Friday night I stripped my G17 and discovered that the extractor was chipped. While the pistol continued to function normally, a chipped extractor is an official Bad Thing and it was replaced. As you ...
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Thursday, October 6th, 2011
39,572 rounds
8 stoppages
(+1 w/non-LCI extractor)
0 malfunctions
0 parts breakages
Update on the magazine problem: During my first range session after discovering the initial problem with three new magazines, one of my previously dependable magazines (the one I'd been carrying on my belt as a spare since the beginning of the test, ...
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Saturday, October 1st, 2011
38,676 rounds
8 stoppages
(+1 w/non-LCI extractor)
0 malfunctions
0 parts breakages
The reason you don't see serious high round count tests in gun magazines is because over the course of many months and tens of thousands of rounds, stuff happens that can be hard to quantify.
This week, I received five new magazines to ...
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Thursday, September 22nd, 2011
36,525 rounds
8 stoppages
(+1 w/non-LCI extractor)
0 malfunctions
0 parts breakages
Perhaps the most interesting thing this week for pistol-training.com readers is that I blew away my personal F.A.S.T. record with this run Wednesday:
4.02 (clean): 1.36, .38 / 1.71 / .21, .17, .19
It was my third try at the end of the day, ...
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Friday, September 16th, 2011
35,395 rounds
8 stoppages
(+1 w/non-LCI extractor)
0 malfunctions
0 parts breakages
All of this week's shooting was done during an Aim Fast Hit Fast class in Virginia. Here's a video of my version of Ken Hackathorn's version of Scott Warren's famous "Barrel" or "Figure Eight" drill:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlJdC9_VkEs[/youtube]
The target -- which you cannot see due ...
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Saturday, September 10th, 2011
34,774 rounds
7 stoppages
(+1 w/non-LCI extractor)
0 malfunctions
0 parts breakages
Finally some decent practice this week, most of it all in one day. Thanks as always to the great folks at the NRA Headquarters Range in Fairfax, Virginia!
I stepped up to the "5 Challenge" with decent results.
As expected, getting 100% hits wasn't ...
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Saturday, September 3rd, 2011
33,760 rounds
7 stoppages
(+1 w/non-LCI extractor)
0 malfunctions
0 parts breakages
Boring. Yes, just 250 rounds downrange this past week, and all during last weekend's Aim Fast, Hit Fast in New Mexico (read reviews of the class here and here). Other than pulling off a couple of sub-5 clean F.A.S.T. runs during the class -- ...
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Friday, August 26th, 2011
33,510 rounds
7 stoppages
(+1 w/non-LCI extractor)
0 malfunctions
0 parts breakages
As promised, this was a very light week. Most of my range time was spent on marksmanship which necessarily means fewer shots and fewer hours on the range. After all that, I ran a Dot Torture at 10yd and still only scored ...
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