Great day! Perfect weather! Lots of good people sharing their love and knowledge of wheel guns! Always a good thing!
Perfect weather at the range. The forecast wasn't the greatest coming into the weekend, but it was awesome. Actually was actually pretty cold when I met up with Inspector at the range.
Learned a lot about my revolvers. A little something about each and from various folks. The Highway Patrolman, it's history (Models 27 and 28), value, etc. The 41 and it's nickel finish. The Redhawk and some of the history. A lot about S&W revolvers, the frames, "dash-something" designations, the small details (like the cylinder recess) in the different iterations, etc. The different ammo types, loading nuances, performance, etc. All great information shared by folks who are passionate about revolvers and shooting in general. Was all fun. . . at least when I finally got home and decided to clean guns.
Nah, even that is therapeutic.
While all of the guns were a pleasure to shoot, I was pleasantly surprised at how the Redhawk handled. It was pretty mellow with the .44 Mag and VERY mellow with the .44 SPL. The .41 Mag was surprising also as I thought it would have been less mellow with the 4" barrel. It was quite mild shooting with the factory Remington .41 Mag SWC, but I was told that that is mostly due to limitations of the boolit. Tried some of dogman's .41 "specials" and that was fun! The Highway Patrolman was also a pleasure to shoot and with a purchase price of $125 back when my dad bought it, I'm really happy with that "budget" gun.
Dogman shared the differences with the Model 27. I actually really liked his Model 27 quite a bit. Haha
Got a crash course in High Standard .22 lr pistols from Inspector. Seems like it will need an overhaul (springs and gummed up action), so really wasn't able to shoot that one. Anyone know a local smith who works on High Standards?
Brought my Gucci gun, or at least as Gucci as I have, for a couple of folks who wanted to try a handgun with RDS. It was fun seeing the "old school" guys shooting my 17 with RDS.
Wish I was able to stay longer as well. Thank you to Zips who cooked up hot dogs! I had to head off to a bbq, so didn't have one myself.
Was great to see familiar faces, meet new folks, as well as put faces to some screen names. All good people.