The Hawk action - dropped into an unfinished stock ... and the pellets were laying there. An hour of shooting seemed possible, since the day here was somewhat warmer. It was later than I thought, before I decided to go shoot some. And, it got colder quickly, as it fell toward sundown.

It's traditional to forget a few critical things, when packing for the range. I forgot three, to be exact. One ... bench bags. Two ... targets (I'd bought some small candies to use for small "clay birds"). Three ... I forgot that it's COLD in the snow! And I've paid for it this evening. Remind me not to do that again until Spring.

I'd even packed up a couple of cameras and tri-pods. I was gonna get a bit of high speed footage of blasting the small candies with the pellets at distance. That's what sort of pushed me over the edge of ... should I? ... shouldn't I? ... hey ... let's so it! Then, I left one camera. Good thing I didn't pack for Lewis and Clark. Ah ... the best plans.







The new 32 pellet



Velocity of said pellet from Hawk 32 (not bad with it's 13" barrel)



30 yards freezing ...



50 yards turned blue ...



And, just LOOK at my brand new sandwich board target backer I made right before leaving the shop. RUINED I tell you!!! 1/4" face and 1/2" plywood back ... the "pellets" were blasting the heck out of it at 50 yards.

And ... Gary has left the building!

You will see that my leather coat became a bench bag. That means that my achy shoulder became a real pain. I was wearing a heavy flannel shirt, but the cold seeped thru. And hunching over a tailgate ... I should know better ...

At least this time, I had my feet on a tarp, but I was sitting on a small step stool.

Blasted out a few groups, wobbling around on a first aid kit for a front bag. That didn't work. Found a box of wet wipes, that I added to the pile ... that didn't work. Finally, I found a small bucket, and balled up my jacket. That worked half decent ... but I soon figured I'd seen enough! haha.

But hey! I went shooting!

Gary



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Gary,

That slug looks great!

Lon

Good improvisation Gary! And yes, at least you got out shooting....beats the rest of us
Interesting looking slug, and seems to do the business in the freezing cold
Cheers
Neil

Why doesn't everyone do this stuff?

Yeah ... I wonder too ...

It feels sooooo good, when you FINALLY get packed up again, and get BACK into the warm truck. And then, there are the following twelve hours of hurting and feeling stupid ... that's got to count for something?



Gary

I think it accounts for higher tylenol sales!

Gary,

The Hawk action looks good on that unfinished stock. It's me or your scope is almost as long as the carbine.

Ya like that Julio? Hey - wait until I get a couple of sun shades on there!!! hahaha.

Gary

Julio,
Gary has had an epiphany, he now believes in "super scopes!" Apparently team simmons had an issue with their stuff being tossed around in a busy shop and only pulled out for a shoot when the weather was bad...

What a trooper GB. Seems like no one is shooting but US....lol

You and those pellets are doing a GREAT JOB.