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45ACP Inventory Getting Low

Saturday, August 23rd, 2008

A few more sessions of this and I’ll have the situation corrected:

The pile is slowly growing. I finished up the day with around 2000 shiny new cast boolits. I would normally do a run of 5000+ but didn’t have time for that today.

45ACP pile

These were made from recycled wheel-weights using this Lee 6-cavity mold poured from my Lee 20 pound bottom-pour pot.

A day at the range…

Saturday, June 23rd, 2007

I decided to visit a shooting range I hadn’t been to yet this morning to try out my new Rock River Arms “Tactical CAR-A4″. My 15 year old daughter, Leigh, wanted to come along. Jan and Blake didn’t feel like getting out of bed at 7:30AM to join us….which was great because that meant more ammo for us! :-)

This relatively new Strickland Range facility was impressive and well run. I will definitely be returning here often.

I only took four guns out today: VEPR 7.62×39, the new CAR-A4, the Springfield TRP Operator 45ACP, and the little Kimber Ultra Raptor 45ACP.

Here’s Leigh, who has never fired any AR variant before, doing a very respectable job on the target:

This is Leigh’s very first attempt with the CAR-A4 at 50 yards range. Her grouping got better on subsequent targets.

My turn! Thus far I am totally satisfied with this Rock River carbine. Today, we fed it 160 rounds of Wal-Mart UMC and another 120 rounds of Guatemalan 5.56 surplus with zero malfunctions.

Next time out, I will have it dressed up with a scope, bipod, and who knows what else.

Jerry's new CAR-15