Rossi Rifleman

After a couple of days with temps in the 80's I forced myself to hit the range.
ha ha. every shooter in the county had the same idea but I lucked out and
got the last lane on the 100 yard range.

Okay. I haven't progressed past the 50 yard mark just to make that clear.

My first effort was with 158g Extreme Plated Bullets RFN over 4.2g Trail Boss.
I was using my Caldwell Rest which is not all that great and my first five rounds
were all over the place. Then I noticed the Range had purchased a few new rests
like these. ( If I can remember how to insert a photo )

I seem to recall some member made a rest using an auto jack.

I managed to grab one as a shooter was turning it in and five rounds were much better

Then using the new rest I switched to Oregon Trail Lazer Cast RFN 158g and I didn't write
the powder and load down when i loaded these . But the difference was very noticeable.

I didn't make any adjustments on the Red Dot at all, the two flyers were all me, very frequent
interruptions with shooters changing targets didn't help. As soon as I got home I ordered that
rest from Natchez and I got my fingers crossed it's the same one. I e-mailed my photo since they
didn't have a photo on their website. They said it was so I'll wait and see. If it is I'll post the #
as it's on sale now, $67 including FedEx shipping.

Temps back to normal tomorrow in the 40's, good while it lasted ... Jim

Thanks for the nice report. I sounds like a nice time.

great work thanks for the range report.

Another view of the rest. The only negative I had was the butt holder was a little wide for the 92.
Compensated for that with an ole hand towel that snugged the butt right up. Range Officer said
another shooter glued a U shaped piece of carpeting in his and that's probably what I'll do.


One of the better features of this rest is that you can cock the lever w/o taking the carbine off
the rest.

You shooting into a culvert pipe?

YEP !

Both the 100 and 200 yard rifle positions shoot through these big ole culverts.
Get a good echo from the big boomers, good hearing protection is a must.

You can't see it in these photos but there is a pvc pipe that runs the length
of the lanes with a sign that can be lowered in front of each culvert. Says
hands off firearms when anyone is down range. It works !

With several new shooters there yesterday without spotting scopes they
wanted to go look at their target after about every shot. I shot a total
of twenty rounds ( two targets ) and took almost two hours. Sure was
a pretty day though.

The culvert and "blocking" pipe sounds interesting! Too bad the waiting to shoot.