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Old August 2, 2022, 08:04 AM   #26
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I spent part of a summer when I was a boy in Crans-Montana over half a century ago; a beautiful area that also has great fishing, caught lots of trout in a lake; umm umm good. That's some great shooting, everything exudes "Swiss precision" about it.
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Old August 3, 2022, 01:59 PM   #27
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And, no doubt, sharp eyes!

Young or not, that's great shooting.

Sharp eyes indeed

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Old August 3, 2022, 02:00 PM   #28
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I spent part of a summer when I was a boy in Crans-Montana over half a century ago; a beautiful area that also has great fishing, caught lots of trout in a lake; umm umm good. That's some great shooting, everything exudes "Swiss precision" about it.

Thanks. A very posh / high end mountain resort and a very pretty place indeed, I’ve been there several times.
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Old August 3, 2022, 02:01 PM   #29
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So I took the young lady to another outdoor shooting range which allows a broader range of weapons

She shot the Colt M4



The suppressed HK MP5



Remington 700 SPS in .308



The FAL and Ithaca 37






And finally back to handguns with a Dan Wesson 15-2 VH in .357 magnum at 25 meters.

She had to aim a bit lower and to the left in order to hit the middle, making it even harder.







And did she hit it !!! 27 yrs young (I said that already), 5’2.5”, 114 lbs. Never shot a .357 Magnum before. I’m speechless

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Old October 9, 2022, 03:23 AM   #30
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Yesterday was another .22 only session at the local club. I was alone, seems my shooting buddies lost their motivation at the end of this season, it felt like it was my own private range.

I started with rifles, the Ruger precision and Savage Mk II. After checking that they were still well sighted in on paper, I scattered 3 dozen golf balls on the berm 55 meters away, and had a ton of fun making them dance and fly around



I read abt that on a forum. I also had a similar session with our new young members a few weeks ago, the smile on their faces says it all



Then I aspired to some calm, so I installed the Norwegian A-Tec silencer I recently bought





Since I switched from high velocity to standard velocity ammo, the point of impact was 2 inches low and 1 inch to the left, with both rifles. I didn’t feel like messing with the scope settings so I just used some good old Kentucky windage









Then I pulled out some gongs, both at 25 and 50 meters, rifle and pistols



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Old October 9, 2022, 03:24 AM   #31
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Swiss shooting 2022

Colt service model ace with the same silencer





Ruger MkII with integral silencer



S&W 17-6





Finally made some serious noise with a Marlin 983T in .22 Magnum





And a S&W 48-2 in .22 Magnum also



A fantastic morning turning money into noise and fun

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Old October 9, 2022, 01:12 PM   #32
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Nice! Local club around here has a monthly rimfire challenge. manager was telling me that one of the winners puts 40 in the X @100 yards using subsonic for best accuracy. I can't even see that small of a bullseye @ 100 yards!
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Old October 14, 2022, 02:49 AM   #33
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Took five nice handguns to the range yesterday. It’s open from 5 to 8 pm, but by 7 pm the light vanishes and it gets quite dark

All at 25 meters offhand

1984 Sig P210-1





1979 Colt Gvt model Mk IV ser 70 in 9 mm







1984 Manurhin MR73





1980 FN GP35 Competition





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Old October 14, 2022, 02:50 AM   #34
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1990 S&W 610 with .40 S&W







Then as it was getting quite dark, I shot a few duel sessions, where the target appears for 3 seconds and disappears for 7. It was an interesting challenge to do this drill in low light conditions.







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Old October 14, 2022, 10:36 PM   #35
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Neat picture of the long-barreled Browning--I don't think I've ever seen one of those before.
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Old October 30, 2022, 03:10 AM   #36
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Today a few friends from our shooting club and I were again invited to a shooting challenge organised by the shooting society of the Lausanne police corps.

5 practice shots (2&3) and then 4 X 5 shots in 5 minutes, 3 minutes, 1 minute and 40 seconds on the ISSF speed target at 25 meters for a total max of 200 points (warm up shots being used in case of a tie)

My weapon of choice in the ordnance division is my 1979 made Sig P210-6 in 7.65 mm parabellum (.30 Luger). The vintage Swiss military ammo is very accurate.





Loaded and ready to compete



2 warm up shots, great



3 warm up shots, got carried away by the first two and lost my focus a bit



1st pass, 49



2nd pass, 47


3rd pass, 49 again



Last pass, 46, slightly disappointing



Total score of 191 put me in second place overall, amongst some 25 competitors

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Old October 30, 2022, 03:11 AM   #37
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We finished again with a great meal of garlic shrimps and some fine wines. A great day was had by all.

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Old November 16, 2022, 04:05 PM   #38
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The weather has been nice with really mild temperatures for the season, so I spent some time at the outdoor range today with various toys.



I started with handguns at 25 meters

S&W 48-2 in .22 Magnum





S&W 627-0 in .357 Magnum





Then a LAR Grizzly in .45 Win Mag





I finished off that target with some 12 ga slugs from the Ithaca 37



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Old November 16, 2022, 04:06 PM   #39
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Then the Auto Mag in .44 AMP







Then some rifles at 50 meters

Winchester M14 in 7.62 NATO







HK 93 in 5.56 NATO





Suppressed HK MP5 9 mm





I was not very accurate today, I mostly wanted to have fun without too much concentration (and my glasses were fogging up).

And Lord did I have a ton of fun
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Old January 3, 2023, 05:55 AM   #40
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Last few outdoor sessions in December before the range closes for a few weeks holidays. Handguns 25 m rifles 50 m

Manurhin MR38





Suppressed Ruger MKII





Steyr AUG A1





Colt AR-15 A2 Gvt Model



US M2 (Inland) and M1 (Underwood)



HK 33



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Old January 3, 2023, 05:58 AM   #41
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FN FAL G1



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Old January 3, 2023, 07:03 AM   #42
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Very nice.

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Old January 3, 2023, 08:16 AM   #43
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I just stumbled across this thread. Very nice collection of firearms! I need to spend more time cruising all the forums.
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Old January 4, 2023, 01:00 AM   #44
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That's a beautiful FAL. I've often thought that if the Army hadn't cooked the books on the M14 selection process, we might have stuck with the .308 much longer and avoided the switch to 5.56.
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Old January 4, 2023, 05:52 PM   #45
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I totally forgot to report on two landmarks of shooting in Switzerland : the field shooting and the compulsory shooting

I did both, in both categories, 25 m pistol and 300 m rifle

Both times we were invited in another club for the field shooting, but stayed in our own club for the compulsory shooting.

Pistol : Sig P210-6 in .30 Luger. Ordnance target.



Field is 18 shots, 3 in slow fire (20 secs per shot) and 3 X 5 shots in 50, 40 and 30 seconds



Total of 172/180, honorable mention and a medal



Compulsory is similar but with 20 shots, 5 in slow fire (60 secs per shot) and 3 X 5 shots in 50, 40 and 30 seconds



196/200 and honorable mention



Rifle field

The range



Stgw 57



Field is 18 shots, 6 in slow fire (60 secs per shot) and 2 X 3 shots in 60 secs each serie and 6 shots in 60 secs



55/72, disappointing score, honorable mention but no medal
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Old January 4, 2023, 05:53 PM   #46
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Compulsory

Home range



Stgw 90



The field target



Compulsory is 20 shots, 2 X 5 in slow fire and 2 + 3 shots followed by 5 shots in rapid fire



69/85, honorable mention

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