Young does, but Jaime was telling stories about needing one for BOTH hands.

Who's bunking with Jamie?

Nobody. Obviously he prefers to be alone.

But I'm right handed. I keep telling people that I use my right hand... For shooting and "other"



The brace is on my left arm.
Damn tennis elbow!

But man you guys and gals are missing out on all the fun shooting at 1,000 yards with iron sights of a Mosin Nagant.

Truly an eye opener!

Jaime's still in bed, BTW. Dunno what the hell he's been doing in there all morning.

What?

Half the morning is gone. Lazy kids.

I say video the grand awakening!

Well, our two days of fun in Chelan are over and we're back at home.

Here's a layout of the range, showing the location of the various steel targets. It should be pretty easy to find them with this, right? Well . . . not so much . . . some of them were lying on the ground, and some were just damned near invisible. BadKarma and FMJ 911 hoofed it out there on Thursday morning with some spray paint, and marked most of them so we could see them better.



On Thursday, we weren't able to find the 900- and 1000-yard targets until one of the club officers showed up and was able to find them with the telescope (thanks, Larry!). On Friday morning, BadKarma, FMJ 911 and I hiked out to the targets, repainted, hung up more of those that were on the ground, and gave them all liberal doses of pink and orange tape and ribbons. No, we didn't leave it cleaner than we found it . . . but we left it better than we found it.

Here's the view from about 550 yards, which is about as far as BK's truck could make it:



After much hiking and sweating, here are FMJ 911 and BadKarma fixing up the 1000-yard target:



Here's the view back to the firing line from the 1000-yard target. Yeah, it looks pretty flat . . . but it's NOT. Check out the photo above for some perspective.



Once the targets were all purtied up, we started to beat them down again. Here's oldkim dual-wielding the telescopes, with FMJ 911 on the Mosin 91/30 and root on the sniper Mosin 91/30 in the background, both trying to ring that 1000-yard gong:



Ol' FMJ looks pretty Russian behind that thing, doesn't he?



Good times.

My observations:

- We did pretty damned well for a bunch of rookies shooting at least 700 yards longer than most of us had ever tried, mostly with guns older than our parents. All of the Mosins rang the 1000-yard target at least once, and the metal target at 644 yards didn't pose too much of a challenge.
- The rear sight for the 1903A3 doesn't adjust to anything longer than 800 yards.
- Setting the rear sight of a Mosin at the 900-meter mark is just the ticket for 1000-yard shooting. It actually worked!
- My .308 Remington 700 performed very well . . . I'm very happy with it.
- I'm considering taking a very early retirement and moving to Chelan.
- We had a really good group of guys. Thanks, gents!

So here is my pictures...

It's not totally organized but it'll get you there.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/shannonand ... 212366276/

You guys missed another good one!

Thanks to all that came to shoot. I had a great time!



I'm going to see if we can do it again... maybe in March or April



(FYI in June the range closes down to 100 yards - due to fire hazard).

I thought we agreed to say we could only drive out 50 yards and we humped the steel out ourselves?

I had a blast and can't wait to do it again.

Shit. It was even my idea, and I blew it.

Does anyone know how to edit your posts??

I heard some MODs have the ability but they are busy on TOS!

Watch BadKarma in all his 4K greatness. (Set the resolution to "Original".)

Man that looks like a great tome!! Awesome pics too!

Made it to 1000 yards.


And here are my photos.
http://s892.photobucket.com/user/BadKar ... oot%202013