A stupidly hot range session...

[mrclark303]

Hi all,

I (rather stupidly) thought I would head off for a relaxing couple of hours shooting this afternoon... Hot as hell quite frankly, I thought it was odd that I am was the only one ... Well mad dogs and Englishman and all of that!

34c in the shade according to my phone, the rifle got too hot to handle and the sweat stung my eyes ... I just gave up in the end, not much fun, but the Tippmann Arms AR ran beautifully reliably as ever, only the operators sweat in the eyes ruining the groups!

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[browningautorifle]

I've had those days too. Fortunately not in the last few years...at least you were out there and could go home. Not like you had to hooch up in the edge of the treeline for some days...

[mrclark303]

Telling me Jim, I retreated back to my air conditioned LandRover, bounced back across the fields in a cloud of dust with a frosted glass (or three) of beer firmly in my sights....

[Ovidio]

Welcome to Ital… er… were you in good ole UK???

[RCS]

I like to shoot mine inside at around 15 or 20 feet, kind of private.

My 1 in 12 early barrel twist is great with the standard vel CC1 22 rim fire,
saved this target from 2020

also like the early CAR15 stock

[browningautorifle]

22 rim rifle conversion kit

I've had a few of those over the years, they were great.

[mrclark303]

Yep, your weather got lost and it's been with us for weeks mate, ready to send it back your way!

[Ovidio]

Yep, your weather got lost and it's been with us for weeks mate, ready to send it back your way!

We are generous people. You can keep it
I haven't been shooting with my rifles since the end of May approximately.
The pit where we have the range is so outrageously hot, that I don't even dream of going there this year.
I'll catch up in autumn.

[mrclark303]

Very nice, I've a plan on building a .22 WMR Car15...

[RCS]

If you could find a sub caliber adopter in 22 WMR for your 5,56mm chamber, you could try it out at different ranges. The 22 WMR is expensive and not alot of bullet choices but could be tested.

The normal semi auto 22 rim fire kit is alright and without a need for special rim fire, only the AR-15 match rifles with dedicated 22 match barrels will need testing of different match brands

photo shows 22 rf with 5,56 adopter, 32 acp (also 32 S&W) for 303 adopter and 32 ACP, 32 S&W short & long for 30-06 adopter

last photos show the CAR 15 stock that I restored and installed on a Colt SP1 semi auto from 1974