Range Time (finally)

I finally got out and did some shooting.  It's been a little while and I had some things to check on.  The slide from my Les Baer took a little tumble as I was cleaning it and landed on the front sight.  Results on that one made me smile as I chewed out the middle of the target.  Sigh of relief there.

I burned a couple of magazines through the P3AT and had no issues with the 9 round magazine, but some with the 6 round magazine.  I've made the determination that this gun needs to be run relatively "wet".  While that doesn't make me super happy, I think I have a solution.  We will see.  If not, it's going on the auction block.

I had removed the red dot sight from my AR for hunting season and slapped my scope in the quick detach rings on it.  It turns out I didn't really need it, but I had to put the red dot back on and I wanted to make sure it was still on.  The good news is that it hit real close, but was a tad low.  I adjusted for that and we're back in business.

I let Mrs. 45er do some work with it:

Then I did a few reps of multiple target acquisition and mag change stuff.  I also had an unintentional failure drill.  It went click when it should have gone bang.  I was happy that I went straight to the bolt and cycled it out, finishing the exercise.  It's always nice to know that you revert to training when you don't know it's coming.  What did I find that caused it, you ask?

Eeeek!

Wolf, steel ammo, yes.  I haven't had problems with feeding or firing since I've started using it, but this was interesting.  My guess is that the case doesn't have a flash-hole drilled into it so the primer ignition could not get to the powder and therefore blew back out of the pocket.  My next thought was:  I'll bet I could pop that piece of primer off and confirm my suspicion.  My very next immediate thought was:  What the heck are you thinking?  Stupid and dangerous for no reason.  In the trash it went.

As it got later, I did some laser sight training with Mrs. 45er and had a little fun with that.  All in all a good range day.  Then again, short of shooting yourself, when is range time not good?