Our friend Mary drove all the way over from Kansas City to help after Susan's surgery. That was a really big deal, what with foster Schips to care for in addition to the household chores that Susan can't perform for a while. We had some range time for her before she went home, and she wanted to shoot the M1. We covered the loading procedure as part of the orientation for that rifle, and she opted to use a two handed loading method rather than risk a thumb. I highly recommend that for safety's sake. I had not checked the sights in many years, although I knew it was on plates OK at 100 yards, but I wanted to know how close it was. A simple black dot at 25 yards was used for the check.
The first two shots showed that the windage was off by 5/4 inch at 25 yards. At 25 yards, 1/4 inch equals 1 minute of angle, so I clicked the M1 rear sight to the right (clockwise) 5 clicks for five minutes of angle correction. The next shot was centered in the dot, at about 1 inch above the point of aim. That will be very close to the same at 100 yards with 30-06 ballistics. I was using 150 grain bullets loaded to 2700 feet per second with IMR-4895 powder.
Here's a video with Mary trying out the M1 after running some rounds through a Model 66 S & W:
Mary was shooting at the Red Coat target at 50 yards, and did very well. The M1 pushes her back, but the weight of the rifle made it an easy recoil, and she suffered no bruising. Darn good shooting, I think!
That is good shooting.
ReplyDeleteI noticed that on the first string of shooting, she dropped the hammer on a fired cartridge case and there was no movement at all in the pistol.
Great trigger discipline.
Mary is relatively new to shooting pistols and we have been careful to not induce flinching. We started out with .22s, and non-magnum centerfires. On this visit we had her shooting light .357 Magnums, not full power loads. She won't be hunting, so loud, heavy recoilers aren't necessary. We have shared some of Tamara Keel's posts with Mary and also Rob Leatham's video on aiming https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=li0rGtXh23I&t=160s Mary now has her carry permit for Missouri and is taking training beyond the classes required.
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