Almost no motorcycle content in this blog, folks, but I had mentioned the Mosin Fun Match we were going to have this weekend and I thought I would follow up with an after action report and a proposal.
About a dozen of us met yesterday morning out at the West End Gun Club for our match. It was cool. Literally. The temperature in So Cal dropped this weekend big time. But it was also cool as in way fun. We had a good time shooting our match with simple rules and fun targets…zombies, bullseyes, military surplus rifles, and handguns…
I’m always worried that when I post gun stuff on the CSC blog somebody will get their BVDs in a knot and start whining about it. The fact is, though, that many of you have written or otherwise told me that you like seeing this stuff. So, every once in a while I’ll continue to throw in some shooting stuff.
The motorcycle content first: My good buddy Duane, who helps at CSC when we get backed up, is also an avid shooter. Duane rides an RX3 (he did the Flagstaff run with us a ways back) and he, like me, is a range regular. Duane shoots an ultra-collectible K98 Mauser, and he’s very, very good with it.
Here’s good buddy Rick, one of the Mosin boys, with his M44 Mosin. Rick is into the shooting and reloading thing big time…he shoots cast bullets in his Mosin (as do I), which is a relatively advanced reloading thing to do. It’s way harder to get good accuracy with cast bullets, and Rick is right there. He even casts his own bullets. Amazing stuff.
Incidentally, if you want to see what goes into reloading cast bullets in a rifle, check out this video..
A shot of my good buddy Jim, who shoots the Mighty M1 Garand.
The boys, yukking it up during a line break…
My buddy Paul’s Mosin. Paul and I go back a long time. We’ve been friends for over 60 years.
My Mosin. It’s a 1934 rifle. The thing is 81 years old, and it still shoots into an inch. I refinished it and glass bedded the action. It’s awesome.
Good buddy Jim was at the bench just to my left, and his Garand was throwing brass all over the place. One of those big .30 06 cases dinged dinged my Mosin stock (it’s that little scratch just to the left of the spent .30 06 brass). It’s no big deal, because it has an oil finish. I’ll just throw a bit of TruOil on it and it will be as good as new again.
The boys downrange, checking their targets. It was a great day to be on the range.
We shot rifle targets at 50 yards, and then we switched to handgun targets at 25 yards. It was grand fun. A couple of us were shooting .45 ACP Model 1911s, a couple of us were shooting .357 magnum revolvers, and the rest were shooting 9mm automatics. Good times.
There’s something about Mexican food and rifle matches….the two just seem to go together. Part of the tradition with this crowd is a great lunch at our local Mexican restaurant, and yesterday was no exception.
I had albondigas soup. I don’t what an albondiga is, but they sure are good in soup. One of the younger guys had this burrito. You’d need to use scientific notation to denote the calories in this thing…
We don’t score the targets until after lunch (it’s also part of the tradition). Here’s Tyler at work on one of the pistol targets…some of these guys are really good.
These matches are a ton of fun. Everyone who participates is a winner, and there are no losers. It is a really fun thing to do.
So, the proposal I mentioned earlier….we’ve been talking about a local Scoot and Shoot event…the same sort of thing as described above, but your ticket in is riding your RX3 to the match. It would have to be handgun only (it’s kind of hard to carry a rifle on a motorcycle). If you’re interested, let me know (write to me at info@cscmotorcycles.com), and I’ll set it up.
Hey, one more thing…if there are any more entries for the RX3-U photo caption contest, get them in to me by midnight tonight. First (and only) prize is a signed copy of 5000 Miles At 8000 RPM. We’ve received about 40 entries so far. We’ll announce a winner here on the blog tomorrow!
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