Another SVRC shoot: revolvers
News, Guns ·Saturday January 29, 2011 @ 15:32 EST (link)
Group of MSGun folk arranged an outing to SVRC Saturday; a few couldn't make it (Mark, the Bessos) but we had a nice group: Garrett and Trinity, each with their children, Josh, and Shawn and Doug who I didn't previously know. We were there from 1230 to about 1530 (Honey left earlier). There was an invitation to go to Garrett's for an after party/cleaning, and I brought some brews and cleaning supplies for it, but I was finished at the range before they were and wanted to get back home to my Honey :) so didn't end up going.
Of Mark's five guns that I borrowed - the Dan Wesson 744, S&W 19, Ruger Blackhawk, Security Six, and SP101, I only shot three: Josh had an SP101, so I shot it instead, and I didn't shoot the Ruger Blackhawk since I'd decided against single action. Of the two .357s, I lean toward the Security Six and might pick one up; they're fun to shoot.
I got to shoot Garrett's SCAR-L, and we found that it doesn't like Wolf steel-cased (failed to cycle after most of them and one minor jam). I plan to get a SCAR-H (instead of the FAL I'd been researching, since it has everything the FAL does and more). I'm not planning to shoot steel through the SCAR-H (is there even steel .308?) so I'm not worried about that. My Rock River Arms AR-15 eats steel quite happily so it will remain the plinking gun with the SCAR-H as Royce's "battle rifle".
I cleaned the revolvers I shot on Sunday; not too difficult—I hope I'm doing it right—for the most part similar to semi-automatics with an easier takedown: clean the cylinders and barrel with bore snake and patches (I don't have an appropriately-sized brush), and scrub the nooks and crannies with a toothbrush and then wipe down with a clean rag, using MPro-7 cleaning solution to break free the fouling.
Books finished: The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories, Starless Night, How I Found Freedom In an Unfree World, Siege of Darkness.
