Lots of guns and violence. Free outdoor ranges are cool.

Tue Apr 17 21:10:43 EDT 2001

My weekend turned out to be lots of fun. Lots of guns and violence.

Saturday night, me, Doug, and Ed played Total Annihilation.

Sunday I discovered something wonderful - Doug took me & Ed to a free outdoor range in a park. You can set up targets at 25, 50, or 100 yards. The place is completely unstaffed. The rules said something like, if more than one person is shooting, a range master shall be designated. It was really cool. Everyone there was safety conscious and friendly. There were maybe 7 other people while we were there at least part of the time we were. Every once in a while, everyone would stop shooting, make sure everybody put their guns down, and go change targets.

I've been shooting my Kimber at 20 yards, so 25 was fine for me with my Kimber. The targets we were using were too small for my less than wonderful vision at 100 yards with iron sights. Doug brought a scoped .223 rifle, that was really neat. I got maybe a 2" group (6 shots) at 100 yards. It had a bipod.

Doug also brought an AR-15 (M16) pistol. That's right. Take an AR-15 (also known as an M16), remove the barrel and stock, and put about a foot long barrel on it. Very neat. Very little recoil, big ball of fire.

I fired an Uzi for the first time. Got to handle a few more SKS & AK type things, and another AR-15, and a Mossberg shotgun with a pistol grip and a heat shield - 12 guage, short barrel (compared to my 20" w/ 8 round mag).

[Remington 700P] I've been looking into rifles for a while - deciding between a semi-auto assault rifle of some kind, and a bolt action, for my next purchase. Among Bolt actions, I've been most interested in the Remington 700s. Among semi-auto assault rifles, I'd been leaning toward AR-10/15s. I'm currently leaning very strongly towards a Remington 700P in .308 Winchester - The Police Sniper Special. I like the color scheme.

I recently had a friend state very strongly that the only assault rifle he'd be interested in would be a "real" AK-47. Strong opinions can be influential. I don't think the AKs are very pretty. This combination may have helped sway me towards the Remingtons more (which I do think are very pretty).

Probably the biggest factor influencing my interest in Remington 700 hunting rifles is that, in .308 winchester, they are used by the U.S. Army and Marine Corps as light sniper rifles.

I was originally disappointed that it didn't seem like any Remington 700s came with detachable magazines. I eventually discovered that "DM" in Remington model numbers means "Detachable Magazine" - and they're available. There's even a Remington 700P DM. As I continued my research, I found that folks who are fond of the reliability and simplicity of bolt action rifles tend to strongly dislike detachable magazines - more moving parts to break / clean / lose. So I think I'll be going with the non-DM model.

So now I'm looking into scopes. Pretty sure I'll be going with a Leupold - probably the Vari-X III 4.5-14x40mm tactical (part #49208). But I've still only actually looked through 1 scope - Doug's, and I have no idea what it was. So I have research yet to do.

I expect the selection of a bipod to be less challenging. Probably a Harris.
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