This is a reminder that the next scheduled meeting of Airfield Shooting Club will be this Saturday, 18 February 2012, from 9:30-11am, in Mill Run Room located inside of the Gray Building at the main Wakefield 4-H Center (http://g.co/maps/uhfzr). We will start the morning with a buffet breakfast in the main 4-H building (Gray Building) around 8:30AM. The cost is $8.50. Hope some members have the time to attend.
This is a reminder that the next scheduled meeting of Airfield Shooting Club will be conducted on Saturday, 21 January 2012 from 9-11am, in Mill Run Room located inside of the Gray Building at the main Wakefield 4-H Center (http://g.co/maps/uhfzr). We will start the morning with a buffet breakfast in the main building (Gray Building) around 8:30AM. The cost is $8.50.
Ladies ONLY Shooting Clinic – Saturday, June 9, 2012 Where: Airfield 4-H ConferenceCenter, Wakefield, Virginia 23888 Cost: $50.00 (pre-registration required). Cost includes loaner firearms, all ammunition, targets, instruction by NRA certified instructors and lunch. Attendance limited to the first 40 applicants. When: Saturday, June 9, 2012, sign-in begins at 9:00 a.m. Contact: Dale Mullin (757) 420-4419 (please, no calls after 9:30 p.m.) or via email at [email protected], registration form can be found at the following link. Agenda: 9:00 – 9:15 a.m. Sign-in 9:15 – 9:30 a.m. Safety briefing – all disciplines (Rifle, Pistol, Archery & Shotgun) 9:30 a.m. Divide into four groups and proceed to your first discipline 9:40 – 10:50 a.m. First discipline 11:00 -12:10 a.m. Second discipline 12:25 – 1:30 p.m. Lunch 1:45 – 2:55 p.m. Third discipline 3:05 – 4:15 p.m. Fourth discipline 4:15 – 4:25 p.m. How to keep improving your marksmanship skills 4:25 – 4:30 p.m. Awarding of certificates.
The Trap Range has been repaired and is open for member use again. Thank you for your patience.
Gil Ash of OSP Shooting Schools demonstrates why shotgun shooters shouldn’t look down the barrel, nor at the bead. By focusing on the target you might see fewer targets but you’ll surely break more.
The Airfield Shooting Club (ASC) is hosting on October 22, 2011, an NRA First Steps (Pistol) Class with additional sections on the Law of Concealed Carry and Self Defense and Methods of Concealed Carry. The First Steps (Pistol) Class is intended to provide hands-on orientation to one specific pistol model and includes both classroom and live-fire training. Our instructors teach both revolver and semi-auto sections in this class. In addition to the NRA First Steps (Pistol) Class, over an hour long session is scheduled with Timothy W. Drewry, a Virginia practicing attorney, who will discuss some of the legal aspects of carrying concealed firearms and self defense in Virginia. There will be a question and answer period, and the attorney will remain with the class until the very end so that he may answer questions which may arise. An additional segment of the course will include a brief discussion of some of the firearms appropriate for concealed carry and the holsters or other devices which might be suited for carrying a firearm concealed. The legal instruction and the concealed carry portions of the course are non-NRA approved, but added by the ASC to better inform pistol shooters who may …
Up for review today is the Konus Spotting Scope 20-60x 80mm which I purchased from Midway USA on sale for $198.00. Midway has some of the best prices around and I have good experiences both of the times I have had to contact customer service. A decent spotting scope is a necessity for high power rifle shooting. The Konus scope has been talked about quite a bit with an assortment of good reviews, and Jim Owens seems to like it. The Konus has a variable zoom from 20x to 60x and an 80mm objective lens with a sun shade. It weighs just under four pounds and is about 17″ long. Here is the picture of the box that the scope comes packaged in. Once you open the box you can see the carrying case that comes with the scope. The carrying case is kind of thin and nothing special but it helps keep everything together. Unzipping the carrying case reveals the scope itself and the accessories that come with it. Included are a camera adapter and a plastic table top tripod. The tripod works acceptably on the table but it is a bit wobbly and apt to tip over. I …
Not too long ago I bought one of the Civilian Marksmanship specials. The specials are remanufactured M1 Garands with new barrels and new stocks. Once mine arrived I was rather pleased with how it looked, however I needed to do something with the stock as it was essentially bare wood when I got it. I decided to use Birchwood Casey’s Tru Oil on this project. Unfortunately I did not take any pictures before I started so I will use some proxy pictures that hopefully will serve the purpose. On the right is a picture of the CMP special from the CMP website. You can see that the wood looks nice but it needs some finish. After receiving mine I took all of the furniture off and used a bit of 400 grit paper to smooth out a few rough places and then give it a light sanding overall. Then I blew all the dust off with my compressor and then used a tack cloth to remove anything else. Seeing as how I failed to take pictures of my stock before refinishing, I am going to show some pictures of a box that I made for my wife not too long …
I have been in the market for some decent optics for my flat-top AR. With the economy the way it is I initially tried to keep the cost down and crashed and burned with the NCStar Mark III. Thankfully Midway USA made the recovery much easier with their no hassle return policy. After that experience I put aside some money for a little while until I was able to save up enough to order a Leupold Mark AR from Optics Planet with a coupon. I also purchased a one-piece Burris Scope Mount from Midway to go with the scope. The Leupold Mark AR comes in a 1.5-4×20 model and a 3-9×40 model. You can buy it with Duplex or Mildot reticles and the lenses are coated with Leupold’s Multicoat 4 System. This coating is supposed to result in increased brightness, contrast, and clarity. The view through the scope looked good to me although I did have some issues making out 22 cal holes at 100yds. I bought the 3-9×40 version with the Mildot Reticle. It is a one inch tube in matte finish. The elevation knob is adjustable in 1/2 moa increments and includes a built in bullet drop compensator …
I love reloading on my Dillon. I usually use it for straight wall pistol ammunition. Once it is set up and dialed in, I can crank out plenty of 9mm and 45 to feed our shooting habit. My wife even likes the Dillon as it saves money on ammo and she thinks that the sound of me reloading on the Dillon and reaching into the brass bucket reminds her of the Pink Floyd song Money. In the past I have usually reloaded my rifle ammunition on a single stage press. For no particular reason I wanted to reload some rifle rounds on the Dillon. I started with 30-06 as I had the dies and I could use the shellplate, buttons, etc from other rounds that I already reloaded. I set the Dillon up with the 30-06 dies and filled the powder measure up with some IMR-4895. This load was going to be for the Garand so it will not be too hot. About 45 grains of 4895 behind a 168gr SMK. I was trying to get the powder measure dialed in but I kept on noticing that when I brought the handle up I still had grains of powder …
