I brought Timmy up to Gary's place for a visit and shoot. We started the day with a great breakfast of bacon and eggs thanks to Kelly, and then did some prep work in the shop. Timmy got the full tour and he thinks the shop is really big! In between text messages to his girlfriend, he managed to clean some slugs... He also got to see one of the milling machines in action as Gary fitted the stock to the Dragon and the whole pre-shoot routine.
We made it out to the range in the afternoon and thought we might get lucky with an overcast day but halfway into set-up it started to rain and we had light rain for the entire day. No bother! Gary and I have had range days in blazing heat, in mud, in cold and snow and on days that ended with storms. What's a little drizzle? We went pretty light on the set-up this time, just shooting from the trailer and setting up a "porch" for a dry area.
As you can see, the crop was a good bit higher than the last time out and we couldn't just set the targets on the ground and still see them. Fortunately, there was a tree branch down about 88 yards out and we could put some knock-down targets on that. We set the target "box" at 75-76 with a couple targets and also placed steel plates with legs that drive into the ground at 50 and 104 yards. We didn't set out any really long range stuff as we weren't interested in really long walks in the rain.
In this shot, Timmy has already downed a couple of the targets at 88 yards and the 50 yard box has a board set up for the Dragon gun sight-in.
This was the initial set-up with the Dragon and the Prairie III. I love the view of the .87 muzzle!
Timmy got right to shooting while Gary made some adjustments.
I made them stop and pose just like Mom would have...
Timmy had no problem transitioning to longer range shooting.