Afternoon win-mag - the old ar-7, quite the blast from the past. While not match accuracy, the old ar-7 did have an avid following among the river floaters in the Ozarks. Bought one decades ago. Still works and sure doesn’t go out of style.
Been renting a few different handguns at the range, so far shot the Glock 30, the Springfield .45 compact, the Glock 26 and the Ruger LC-9. Of those three the Glock and Ruger handled and felt great. The LC-9 isn’t as small as I thought it would be handles fine. The Glock 30 is a super midsize, about the same size as the Glock 19. Sure like the Glock 26. The Springfield doesn’t feel good to me but sure does shoot. Chances of renting a SW Shield are about nil since they are so slow in shipping. Plan on renting the Ruger SR-22 on my next trip. It’s a well spent five bucks per rental.
Time to crank up the reloader. Got brass in the vibrator cleaner as I type this.
Two weeks to the big BP shoot at the club, got roped into assistant range officer this time around.
Afternoon win-mag - the old ar-7, quite the blast from the past.Blast from the part? So many companies have bought the design rights,I'm not sure how many, but I think the current manufacturer is Henry Repeating Arms.
What I really miss is the Springfield/CZ semi-clone of the old USAF M6 survival rifle/shotgun. I missed the stainless steel version, but at least got one of the standard ones.
The feds made the 18" barrel and trigger guard mandatory, while the factory chambered the rifle in .22lr, rather then the GI .22 Hornet. A genuine safety improvement, which did not change any esthetics, was the addition of a third, "null" position on the hammer selector which made both barrels safe.
I wonder how much begging it would take to get CZ to do a bit of redesign, and chamber the rifle barrel for 5.7mm P90 ammo? between that, and hot .410s, you'd have a tiny weapon that could do an acceptable job on most targets in the 200 .lb weight class even at 100 yards. Not ideal, but a lot better than being totally under-armed.