I Went Shooting Today

Or at least, I tried.  I am a member of Homedale Gun Club which is a very nice private facility.   For some reason it rejected my card today.   I have gone shooting there this calendar year so I know I must have paid my annual dues.  

Instead, a friend from church and I went to public range at Pickle Butte.  It is free and it is about the condition you can expect of something open to everyone with no supervision.   No metal plate targets, no target holder frames, lots of broken bottles and cans, stuffed (and now terribly perforated) stuff animals.

I had no easy way to verify that I have the M1A properly zeroed but the 2x4s out at 98 yards looked like they had suffered 7.62 NATO chew marks.   

The only thing we could do with pistols involved shooting cans and even shotgun shells.  This is only useful for getting the experience of recoil and sight picture.  The Walther is so much fun and so cheap to shoot that I do not see it as a complete waste of time.   I also got to know Chey a little better.

The Walther is picky about ammunition.   This is typical for .22 pistols.  The American Eagle brand jammed several times over a box or so. Had I been a bit more organized, I would have looked through my range bag.  I had some Armscor and Federal in there as well.   One of these has functioned well in it before. 

UPDATE: No, I did not pay my 2025 dues but they give a couple months grace.  That is how I gained access in February.