DeeJay said:
PW said:
DeeJay said:
Shot 5shot groups with every load I took at 20 yards, all were well within 2", the best being the Fedral Hydros that clustered 4 shots in one raged hole with one out about 1/2".
Ummm, either thats a fish story (or gun story) or you are an INCREDIBLE, shot. Anyway, I guess maybe I'm just plain jealous I can't shoot like that. Nice review.
Well,
I'm perty handy with a 1911 as that is what I cut my teeth on (some 40yrs ago) :crown: , but I should have mentioned that those groups were fired from a bench with bags. Very deliberate and slow to find out what the gun was capable of.
I can shoot perty good, but won't claim that kind of consistancy of hand these days. :wink:
There have been a few times in my life when I could shoot like that and just hit everything I shot at, BUT conversely there have been others when I couldn't hit anything.
I have never shot a handgun from a Bench with bags, but my first thought when I read your post was, "I wonder if he was shooting from a bench with bags."
My personal best story for shooting my 1911 A1 GI .45 ACP is this; I often practice point and shoot at multiple targets in an effort to hit what I am looking at. I also practice at home with snap caps and then stop and check to see where the gun is pointing when I pull the trigger. My goal is generally to hit within an 8 1/2 by 11 piece of paper on each of the targets.
We must realize that in actual shooting conditions your ability to do that will vary.
Last summer I was in Wyoming looking at some coal bed methane gas wells on a Ranch near Sheridan Wyoming. Me and this other guy I work with had finished for the afternoon and so we pulled out the rifles and were shooting some prairie dogs. I was using a .22 and he used a .22 for awhile and then pulled out his '06.
Of course after a shot or two the prairie dogs were all underground so I was walking around looking for a curious one that I could get. I came across a well the was leaking a lot of water and this was running down the country side. I put my .22 up and decided to walk out the area that was damaged by the water flow to see the extent of the damage.
As I walked along I kept scaring up sage grouse, and after awhile I decided that I might have a little fun practicing my draw and shoot at the sage grouse, with my .45 that was being carried openly on my right hip. I took of the thumb break for a quicker draw and got ready.
I walked a ways and of flew a couple of grouse. I drew and fired. As expected I missed.
I walked on and another sage grouse flew. I drew and fired and down he went. I had drawn and fired hitting a sage grouse in flight at some 30 yards with my 1911.
I put my gun up and figured that was a good time to stop.
Tarzan
