What a frenzy the Cast Bullet shoot was! Barely organized chaos. The actual keep score competition thing went right out the window early on. The only actual shooting where somebody spotted and somebody else wrote it down was a 30 shot, offhand contest between myself and Longhunter. 10 shots at 80 yards at 5" diamonds, 10 shot at 160 yards at 8" diamonds, and 10 shots at 210 yards at buffalo silhouettes. We each shot 5 shots at each rail, alternating and reset and shot 5 again. It was popular with the spectators and Jon and I.
The steel I picked up turned out to be hard. Not AR-500 hard but pretty darned hard, barely a dimple at 50 yards with 55 gr. fmj from a .223. Plus I got my AR-500 gongs out and hung them below some of the rails and that allowed jacketed stuff to be used and Katie Bar the Door, the frenzy was on.
Tailgates dropped, hard cases sprang open, the rifle rack was filled, trips to the gun safes were made. A 13 year old grandson of one of my shooters was invited and that polite, safe, young man probably shoot up 200 bucks worth of stuff. Everyone wanted to help him and let him try their rifles and ammo. I do believe that young man had one seriously good time.
A partial list of what I know got fired last week would include. Trapdoor .45-70 with black, a beautiful German 10.7x47mm, (that might not be quite right), in a Martini action, multiple 03A3 and 03 Springfields, multiple Enfields, a M-1A close quarters combat nasty loud ugly gun in an Arch Angel stock, a heavy worked over and tricked out AR with a muzzle break that was so frickin' loud it was universally hated by the bystanders, a Sante Fe 53 caliber plains rifle, ordinary AR's in .223, a S&W M&P 22/15, a Winchester Model 72 .22, a Kidd Super Grade 10-22 clone, a couple of other rebuilt 10-22's with heavy barrels and good glass, a couple of Model 700's in .308 and 40-X stocks, a Remington 783 in .30-06, an 1889 vintage Winchester Hi-Wall in .32-40, a AR in 7.62x39 that ran like a watch with cast, a Chinese SKS, a Rossi .22 semi auto, a Contender in .357 Herrett, the .38-40 New Service, a .45 Colt Black Hawk, a Ruger .44 spl Bisley, the FA Model 97 with the .45 acp cylinder in it, a Super BH, a 1957 Flat Top .44 mag, a German made .22 revolver that looked like a Colt SAA, and a Rossi break action rifle in 7.62x39 scoped.
That only is what I actually saw fired on the line. I was cooking and fetchin' and steppin' the whole time and may have missed some stuff.
There were so many knock down targets and gongs painted white along with some sighter gongs. We went through 7 cans of Rustoleum 2X premium flat white primer , and two cans of fluorescent orange just for spraying stenciled bullseyes on the sighters. The Polaris Ranger used a half tank of gas just running to reset targets. I was told I had every kids dream of a shooting gallery by several of my shooters. It is the culmination of a long term goal of mine. We had rails at 25, 50, 80, 160, and 210 yards. We shot from beneath a 10'x20' roofed gravel base with two full size benches and an 8' table for spotting scopes, cleaning gear and ammo.
All in all this event was pretty incredible.
There is always up close and personal shooting/practice.