started shooting again...

[crewchief888]

after a long "layoff" from shooting, i decided over the winter to get my act together and start shooting USPSA again.

literally cleaned 10 years of dust off my gun and gear, and went to NPCCC a couple months ago for their 1st match of the year.

got through the match without shootin' myself in the foot,
had a couple mikes, and a few procedural's, and had some gun related issues. gave the gun a good cleaning and did better at the 2nd match.

hmmm
they shoot outlaw steel... yep give it a try.. it'll be good practice on my draw and sight picture...
wow they shoot rimfire rifle and pistol.... that'll be a cheap way to "play" , but my only 22Lr is a tube fed marlin....

well i needed powder anyway, so i head off to cabelas to grab some, wife was with me, and said "i'm gonna go in with you so you dont get distracted by all the shiny stuff"

well it's not shiny, but i picked up a used mossberg 715T 22LR

made a trip over to point blank in merrillville this morning to run some ammo through it, once i got the sights zero'd in, i was pleasantly surprised how well i shot, keeping my 10 rd groups at about 2".
the sights are horrible, (to me anyway) gonna have to put a dot on it...

down the rabbit hole i go once again.....

 

[d.kaufman]

Hope the 715t runs for you cause the one i had was a pos. Had to send back to mossberg 2 times and only ran 30 rounds thru it. First time, 11 rounds and extractor shot out the ejection port. Sent it in, got back and within 18-19 rounds same thing. It was one of the very first rifles produced, but needless to say i got rid of it in a trade as soon as i got it back from mossberg the 2nd time. Full disclosure to guy i traded with of course. All in all Mossberg had it longer than i did. Good luck!

 

[crewchief888]

Hope the 715t runs for you cause the one i had was a pos. Had to send back to mossberg 2 times and only ran 30 rounds thru it. First time, 11 rounds and extractor shot out the ejection port. Sent it in, got back and within 18-19 rounds same thing. It was one of the very first rifles produced, but needless to say i got rid of it in a trade as soon as i got it back from mossberg the 2nd time. Full disclosure to guy i traded with of course. All in all Mossberg had it longer than i did. Good luck!

i ran 200 rds through it. had 5 or 6 FTF, but i'm thinking they were more ammo related, i was shooting 20+ year old UMC "yellow box" my old marlin model 99 doesnt like that ammo either
the 25 rd mag is kinda a POS, works fine with 10-12 rd's in it, but all my FTF were with that mag fully loaded.

gonna grab some 10 rd mags and go from there.