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Ned's Shooting Thread

NNNN Senior MemberPosts: 23,966 Senior Member
in General Firearms #1
Shot some .45 acp in the Blackhawk, not shooting well with HP; ball on the other hand shoots to point of aim.

The front sight is hard to see, I painted it today.

Might have to try some 45 long cold in it tomorrow :uhm:
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  • knitepoetknitepoet Senior Member Posts: 18,841 Senior Member
    #2
    What about the thread?
    Were you shooting it in your pistol? Shooting at it? using it to pull the trigger?
    How do you mount a front sight on a thread?
    Wouldn't dye work better than paint on it?

    :tooth:
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  • sakodudesakodude Senior Member Posts: 3,269 Senior Member
    #3
    Well spiders shoot silk so why can't Ned shoot thread?:roll2:

    Sako
  • JayhawkerJayhawker Moderator Posts: 15,047 Senior Member
    #4
    The big question is "At what range was Ned shooting thread?" Thread shooting could be quite challenging...
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  • tennmiketennmike Senior Member Posts: 26,095 Senior Member
    #5
    Maybe the thread Ned is shooting is an 'Irish Pennant' on one of his uniforms. Those things will get you gigged on an inspection. :silly:
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  • Big ChiefBig Chief Senior Member Posts: 32,995 Senior Member
    #6
    NN has us hanging on by a thread.
    It's only true if it's on this forum where opinions are facts and facts are opinions
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  • orchidmanorchidman Senior Member Posts: 7,727 Senior Member
    #7
    You guys cottoned on pretty quick.
    At least you didn't say "I told you sew"
    Quit needling Ned, its his yarn, let him tell it and stop trying to stitch him up or he will go sit in the corner and silk.
    Still enjoying the trip of a lifetime and making the best of what I have.....
  • Big ChiefBig Chief Senior Member Posts: 32,995 Senior Member
    #8
    orchidman wrote: »
    You guys cottoned on pretty quick.
    At least you didn't say "I told you sew"
    Quit needling Ned, its his yarn, let him tell it and stop trying to stitch him up or he will go sit in the corner and silk.

    Hey, you trying to put Ned's Thread on a Spool?

    NN is Bobbin again

    DARN It........................:roll2::roll2::roll2:
    It's only true if it's on this forum where opinions are facts and facts are opinions
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  • Big ChiefBig Chief Senior Member Posts: 32,995 Senior Member
    #9
    Hey Ned wrote a book called:

    .45 Long Cold and Old Lace :tooth:
    It's only true if it's on this forum where opinions are facts and facts are opinions
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  • NNNN Senior Member Posts: 23,966 Senior Member
    #10
    I'm just a sitting here on pins and needles waiting for some more jack wagonary to be attached to this most serious topic.
    A Veteran is someone that served in the Military, it does not matter where they served.
  • NNNN Senior Member Posts: 23,966 Senior Member
    #11
    Big Chief wrote: »
    Hey Ned wrote a book called:

    .45 Long Cold and Old Lace :tooth:

    I saw that play as a teen, the Dad of two of my friends was a straight laced no nonsense type that never said more than hello and looked stern----
    scary sorta.

    He played the Roosevelt character in the locally done production. Meaning running around on stage yelling charge.

    I never could look at the guy again without snickering.
    A Veteran is someone that served in the Military, it does not matter where they served.
  • FreezerFreezer Senior Member Posts: 1,496 Senior Member
    #12
    So he had you in stitches?
    I like Elmer Keith; I married his daughter :wink:
  • shushshush Senior Member Posts: 6,259 Senior Member
    #13
    NN wrote: »
    I'm just a sitting here on needles and pins waiting for some more jack wagonary to be attached to this most serious topic.

    cjp wrote: »..... Oh dear God, I've admitted to liking something Limey.I'll never hear the end of this.

    Jayhawker wrote: »...But seriously Shush....

    Big Chief wrote: ».........walking around with a greasy butt ain't no fun, though!

     


     

  • tennmiketennmike Senior Member Posts: 26,095 Senior Member
    #14
    2nd Witch:
    By the pricking of my thumbs,
    Something wicked this way comes. [Knocking]
    Open locks,
    Whoever knocks!
    [Enter Macbeth]

    Macbeth:
    How now, you secret, black, and midnight hags!
    What is't you do?
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  • NNNN Senior Member Posts: 23,966 Senior Member
    #15
    Did not shoot today, got hot then the temp dropped to 88 and the sea breeze line was trying to produce a T-storm.

    Nothing happened.
    A Veteran is someone that served in the Military, it does not matter where they served.
  • twatwa Senior Member Posts: 2,231 Senior Member
    #16
    While I haven't put in the time needed, so far I can't hit the broad side of a barn with this. Maybe our eye's just suck!

    birdshead.jpg
  • NNNN Senior Member Posts: 23,966 Senior Member
    #17
    twa wrote: »
    While I haven't put in the time needed, so far I can't hit the broad side of a barn with this. Maybe are eye's just suck!

    [URL=http:irdshead.jpg[/IMG][/URL]

    Move real close and see where it goes then move back in stages, maybe it is something like the front sight is too tall or your pushing the gun with your trigger pull.
    A Veteran is someone that served in the Military, it does not matter where they served.
  • twatwa Senior Member Posts: 2,231 Senior Member
    #18
    I am thinking the grip angle is not helping either, but I have only put about 50 rounds through it and was not very consistent. I need to give it some more range time to get it figured out.
  • NNNN Senior Member Posts: 23,966 Senior Member
    #19
    twa wrote: »
    I am thinking the grip angle is not helping either, but I have only put about 50 rounds through it and was not very consistent. I need to give it some more range time to get it figured out.
    Maybe so, I do not recall ever handling one like that.
    A Veteran is someone that served in the Military, it does not matter where they served.
  • NNNN Senior Member Posts: 23,966 Senior Member
    #20
    I took the Blackhawk out today with the 45 colt cylinder in and it shot better with HP's, but, not good enough.
    Could be it likes 250 gr HP's better than 230 gr HP's.

    I shot at a spot on a log and found it was hitting a little left, so I moved the sight and it seemed better.

    I need to .45 acp again and see.

    Yellow flies are horrible out in the woods and worse in the swampy areas.
    A Veteran is someone that served in the Military, it does not matter where they served.
  • tennmiketennmike Senior Member Posts: 26,095 Senior Member
    #21
    NN wrote: »
    I took the Blackhawk out today with the 45 colt cylinder in and it shot better with HP's, but, not good enough.
    Could be it likes 250 gr HP's better than 230 gr HP's.

    I shot at a spot on a log and found it was hitting a little left, so I moved the sight and it seemed better.

    I need to .45 acp again and see.

    Yellow flies are horrible out in the woods and worse in the swampy areas.

    Chiggers, ticks, several kinds of mosquitoes, deer flies, yellow flies, and several kinds of wasps, and those ground dwelling yellow jackets. Then there's rattlers, copperheads, and cottonmouth snakes! :silly: I love the South!

    Have fun with the .45ACP cylinder. New gun, so you two got to get acquainted with one another!
    If the U.S. Congress was put in charge of the Sahara Desert, there would be a shortage of sand in under six months.



  • NNNN Senior Member Posts: 23,966 Senior Member
    #22
    Worst I've seen mosquitoes was in Minneapolis during early summer of '68

    Everyone had to wear a rope around their waist attached to an anchor to not be carried away and drained.
    A Veteran is someone that served in the Military, it does not matter where they served.
  • NCFUBARNCFUBAR Senior Member Posts: 4,324 Senior Member
    #23
    NN wrote: »
    Worst I've seen mosquitoes was in Minneapolis during early summer of '68

    Everyone had to wear a rope around their waist attached to an anchor to not be carried away and drained.

    I remember summer camp on the NC coast where the mosquito netting on the windows was TWO pieces of barbed wire ...
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    - George Orwell
  • Big ChiefBig Chief Senior Member Posts: 32,995 Senior Member
    #24
    NN wrote: »

    I shot at a spot on a log and found it was hitting a little left, so I moved the sight and it seemed better.

    .

    You could have just moved the log :tooth:

    Funny how same make/model/caliber/bbl length will prefer different loads.
    It's only true if it's on this forum where opinions are facts and facts are opinions
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  • NNNN Senior Member Posts: 23,966 Senior Member
    #25
    Today, I braved the yellow flies and shot .38 spl with a Ruger Police Service six.

    Shot well enough, it is not a tgt handgun, but, center mass it will do the job.


    And pink tipped bullets bust open zombie jugs.
    A Veteran is someone that served in the Military, it does not matter where they served.
  • NNNN Senior Member Posts: 23,966 Senior Member
    #26
    Shot some Rem HP's today, regular loads, at least not special SD billed .45 ACP ammo.

    The Blackhawk shot real well after the sight adjustment.

    Water was down, none running over the forest road. As a result, some jack wagon got out there and made a fire in this heat and burned my
    section of log I used as a tgt stand.

    Left an empty wiskey bottle and some MRE related trash, I cleaned it up.

    Yellow flies were still a pain.
    A Veteran is someone that served in the Military, it does not matter where they served.
  • tennmiketennmike Senior Member Posts: 26,095 Senior Member
    #27
    NN wrote: »
    Shot some Rem HP's today, regular loads, at least not special SD billed .45 ACP ammo.

    The Blackhawk shot real well after the sight adjustment.

    Water was down, none running over the forest road. As a result, some jack wagon got out there and made a fire in this heat and burned my
    section of log I used as a tgt stand.

    Left an empty wiskey bottle and some MRE related trash, I cleaned it up.

    Yellow flies were still a pain.

    Good to hear the Blackhawk is limbering up and shooting good groups. :up:
    Sorry to hear about the combustion of the target stand by the idiot. Maybe he was trying to smoke out the yellow flies with waterlogged wood?
    Which reminds me of something I did way back when to keep people away from one of my favorite fishing spots. I got three BIG rubber snakes that looked like copperheads and placed one under the log section I used as a seat, and tied the other two in bushes to left and right of the log seat. They looked real enough that I checked to make sure before I sat down! :silly: :tooth:
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  • NNNN Senior Member Posts: 23,966 Senior Member
    #28
    It shot real well today on zombie jugs, as if radar controlled.
    A Veteran is someone that served in the Military, it does not matter where they served.
  • Big ChiefBig Chief Senior Member Posts: 32,995 Senior Member
    #29
    NN wrote: »
    Shot some Rem HP's today, regular loads, at least not special SD billed .45 ACP ammo.

    The Blackhawk shot real well after the sight adjustment.

    Water was down, none running over the forest road. As a result, some jack wagon got out there and made a fire in this heat and burned my
    section of log I used as a tgt stand.

    Left an empty wiskey bottle and some MRE related trash, I cleaned it up.

    Yellow flies were still a pain.

    Sounds like a drunk Marine messed up your shootin area!
    It's only true if it's on this forum where opinions are facts and facts are opinions
    Words of wisdom from Big Chief: Flush twice, it's a long way to the Mess Hall
    I'd rather have my sister work in a whorehouse than own another Taurus!
  • FisheadgibFisheadgib Senior Member Posts: 5,679 Senior Member
    #30
    NN wrote: »
    Maybe so, I do not recall ever handling one like that.

    I have that same gun in stainless and had it at the SE shoot. I thought for sure you'd have shot it.
    snake284 wrote: »
    For my point of view, cpj is a lot like me
    .
  • NNNN Senior Member Posts: 23,966 Senior Member
    #31
    Fisheadgib wrote: »
    I have that same gun in stainless and had it at the SE shoot. I thought for sure you'd have shot it.
    I didn't
    A Veteran is someone that served in the Military, it does not matter where they served.
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