AAR - Nov 10th Distance Shoot

[jrainw]

A big thank you to INGO family

October 9th I fell and broke my left leg and my right wrist, since then I have been at home driving my wife crazy.
To my rescue came some great INGO people who made it possible for me to shoot yesterday out to 400 yards. I had a fantastic time! I really want to say thank you to everyone that was there with an extra thanks to lovemywoods for picking me up at my house and taking me to the shoot and back. It was too funny when he asked my wife if it was ok to take me and she said very sternly, "Yes, he needs to go, just get him out of here!". Another huge thank you to Rayne, who kept me from hurting myself, spoiled me rotten, and made me feel extremely comfortable when I know I was alot of extra work for her.
Everyone was great and I feel a little more sane today, thank you!
Ringing steel at 400 yards with a 10" barreled AR is great medicine!

 

[OneBadV8]

Thanks for coming out! I had a great time shooting along side you as well as being able to pick your brain. I learned a lot.

 

[Rayne]

AAR – Nov 10th Distance Shoot

Sometimes we don’t realize the Blessings we have right in front of ourselves. I take it for granted I can go out my back door anytime I want to shoot and I have the ability to shoot long distances too. Having made some wonderful friends on INGO I wanted to share the opportunity to shoot some distances with them. We couldn’t have ordered weather that would have been better, warm, and sunny with a breeze at our backs.

We started out at 100 yards to make sure everyone was on paper and then we moved back at increments of 100 yards. We used a trailer to shoot from plus a couple of shooting benches. It was a bit of a hassle moving everything, but it was better than moving the targets. Once we got to 300 yards we mostly shoot at just the steel targets. The sound of boom and then a few seconds later bing is a wonderful thing. It makes me look like this .

I had the opportunity to shoot a 300 WinMag, a Savage 308 with a silly sweet trigger on it and a M16 with a 10 ½ barrel and an Aimpoint red dot on it. OBV8’s WinMag is smooth as silk. It had no trouble at all reaching out and touching 4 inch steel at 400 yards. Que’s 308 is a beast. I rang 4” steel at 400 yards with it too, but after the first shoot I flinched anticipating the recoil for the next few shots, until I realized what I was doing. The highlight of my day was ringing 4” steel at 400 yards with the M16 and red dot. The dot was bigger than the target and when I got around to shooting the 4” steel had been hit multiple times and was very difficult to see. I was also thrilled for Suprtek and his son. They both rang steel at 400 yards using iron sights on a Mosin.

To finish up our shooting for the day, we moved back up to the 100 yard line and placed a row of pumpkins in front of the targets. A couple of the men folk placed some H2 in a few of the pumpkins Someone has some video of it, so I hope they post it. I was too busy shooting some really cool guns to take many pictures.

I was perfectly happy sitting on the trailer shooting my new 10/22 with tech sights, plinking away at steel, but jrainw had other ideas. He convinced me that he had magazines loaded that needed to be shot. Ok, it didn’t take much convincing to shoot the M16 again. This time though he told me I had the safety in the wrong position. When I pulled the trigger instead of bang, it went bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang. In the blink of an eye, I had shot my first fully automatic weapon. When I turned around and saw 3 cameras on me I realized I had been set up. Thanks fellas, I like that kind of set up. Everyone needs friends like you guys.

Sadly the sun was setting and it was time to call the final cease fire. Everyone was very safe and respectful of those around them all day and it was a pleasure hosting such a good group of people.

We all came to the house and enjoyed a nice meal together and finished the night off by sitting around a bonfire. I’m not sure I could think of anything that would have made the day better.

I really want to thank LoveMyWoods, he brought so many steel targets. I know it took him days to round them all up from around his place. OBV8 also help me with coordinating a lot of the targets and target stands. Shadow brought all the target backers and saved us from having to use my good plywood. I really appreciate everyone’s help. I couldn’t have pulled this off without everyone pitching in. I especially want to thank my hubby for helping me get the place ready and trusting me, that these INGO members, from the internet, aren’t crazy gun people who will go wild when turned loose in the wide open space of our farm.

I'll get what few pictures I have up tomorrow.

 

[42769vette]

Sounds like a good time. I absolutely love getting folks out to longer ranges than they have ever shot.

 

[philo]

Sounds like you had a great time. Wish I could have been there

 

[jd4320t]

It was a great day from start to end. I had a lot of fun, learned a lot about distance shooting and found some more things I need to spend money on.

Thanks a lot Rayne for providing us a place to shoot and a wonderful meal. Thanks to lovemywoods for bringing the steel targets, telling us some great stories and sharing your knowledge. Thanks jrainw for sharing your knowledge and letting us shoot the M16. Thanks jblomenberg16 for letting us shoot the M1 Garand (ping!). Thanks to all the rest of the snobs for being great friends.

 

[Shadow]

OMG how do you say Thank You enough for such a Great Day?
Thank you so much MoM (Ayne) for every thing - coming up with this idea ,putting it together ,letting us come out and shoot and then feeding us -Oh and i hope some one got pics of the food - cause i was wayyyyyyyy to busy eating ,.
A special Thanks goes out to Lovemywoods for every thing he done and onebadv8 -for helping Rayne put this together. I Also want to make sure to send out a Very Big Thanks to Rayne's Husband for trusting us and putting up with us for the day.
I just have to go here---- Thanks Dk and HP for every thing , can you say Brownies hahaha
Thank you jblomenburg16 for the use of your M1 ,it was great meeting you. jrainw thank you for all you did and your knowledge . Oh and we now have a mosin long range snob haha Supr and his Son, and thanks Son (jdbunchofnumbers) for making it down and bringing your daughter to enjoy the day with us . ok now on to some pics.

a 100 yds dont look to bad huh ?

400yds looks a lil different

 

[Shadow]

look at the BB gun that Lovemywoods is holding

 

[Shadow]

 

[DaKruiser]

A huge thank you to Rayne and her husband for having us! What an awesome day to spend at a beautiful place.

I have to give a special thanks to LoveMyWoods for twisting my arm to shoot the Savage 308 at 400yds, what an awesome experience! Thank You Sir, you are a true blessing to this community.

 

[Fordtough25]

Wow that looks like a good time! I've been dying to try my model 700 out at some distance. Our range here goes out to 500 yards with targets at different ranges. I can't wait!

 

[HotPocket]

Thank you Rayne and Mr Rayne, for having us out and feeding us all so well.
It was a great time!

 

[HotPocket]

 

[HotPocket]

 

[Colt556]

Oh Man I'm sorry I missed out on this! I could have added some interesting items to the mix. It looks like you all had a great time. That punkin pie looks so yummy!

 

[HotPocket]

 

[Shadow]

 

[OneBadV8]

I didn't take many pics but here are a couple videos. I'll add my comments later though.

http://youtu.be/mSO8vJF1RGw

http://youtu.be/nU-Bt-pLuqQ

 

[DaKruiser]

http://youtu.be/7YXgdqxsosI

http://youtu.be/xEk5g1uRhsI

 

[Rayne]

That sure is a bunch of good looking guys right there.