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Yesterday was Saint Joseph’s day here in Colombia (that’s what I was told anyway, at least it was a three day weekend). So we took some time and ran up to the gun club.  Got down to the 50 meter range and found a bunch of junk all over.  Turns out they’d hosted a three day IPSC match – and didn’t tell me about it.    Oh well, I didn’t have the ammo for it anyway.  STILL it would have been nice to know about.  But I digress.  Initial disappointment was forgotten as I settled down to try out the “new” CVA Kentucky.  It is an old kit rifle that Lancer gave me a while back, a couple years ago I carried it down with me.  Someone did a horrid job of putting it together, but I was able to get it looking pretty much OK over a period of a couple years.  But since I finished it up a couple weeks ago there has been no time for the range.

First Shot

The load was 68 grains of FFFg (because that’s what three INDUMIL 38 spl cases full weighs), a tallow greased cotton patch and a Lyman .440 diameter lead ball.  I played around with some cap gun caps, but ignition was iffy.  If I primed the nipple with a few granules of FFFG then the caps would fire the load. Otherwise it was iffy.  Somehow or other I had a few CCI caps as well, and they were more sure fire.

Firing was done off hand for the most part, two shots taken from sitting. Considering I’ve not done any shooting in a while and the load was completely improvised I don’t thing it turned out too bad.  One shot was fired by the club president who happened to drop by.  He saw my group and decided to try and center the bullseye.  His kentucky windage was off a bit.   One of these days I need to head back up there with a file and a drift punch and try to get on the target out at 50 meters.  But all in all it was a good day at the range.

First Group

Oh, and the neighbors dropped by.  There’s some folks building a place up behind the gun club.  Their son loves firearms – but had never had a chance to fire one.  He’s only 7 years old.  So I gave them the good ol’ safety lecture and let him try the pellet pistol and the kids’ sized pellet rifle.  Once they get their place built I suspect I’ll have occasional visits with the lil’ guy when I’m up there.  The picture shows him pointing to his second shot – which nearly centered the bullseye.

Proud Kid