Jeeps and Guns...

[DrMoab]

Last weekend a few of my friends and I went out to do a little exploring and some shooting. The weather was great and we ended up shooting most of the day with very little exploring.

The six rigs getting ready to hit the highway after we drove up through some unexplored country north of Delle Ut.

With adults and kids there ended up being 19 of us. Here we are in my favorite shooting location. This is in a big depression, I'm not sure if it's a natural depression or if it's an old gravel pit but its great for shooting as it's about 250 yards across and no matter which direction you shoot, you are shooting into an embankment. Someone else thought so too because they have set target holders up at 50,100,150 and 200 yard distances.

All lined up and getting ready to shoot.

For some strange reason, my daughter has been scared to death of guns. She has been around them since birth, gone shooting with us more times than I can count yet she has always refused to shoot. This day we finally talked her into shooting her brothers .22 Henry and my 10/22.

I'd bought a new Ruger SR22 pistol the day before much to my sons delight. The kid absolutely loves shooting anything he can get his hands on.

Everybody...kids, moms and dads alike had an awesome time. Even though we didn't do a lot of exploring it was one of the better days I've had out in a while.

The competition heated up as we brought the bigger guns out. We even managed to dig up a couple of old naxja guys who haven't been around in a long time. We set up some clay pidgins at 165 yards and took turns taking them out.

Cody is warming up his new Rem 700 police special .308

Jeremy (geepfreak) behind Cody's Rem 700 and DaveW behind my Rock River AR-10

I have to thank my cousin for letting my wife shoot their new Bushmaster AR. Now my wife wants one and when she wants a gun we are all winners.

The weather started turning cold and rainy so we left reluctantly and went off to a cave I've been to and camped in a couple of times. I've decided when the zombies come this will be my bug out location.

A blurry image ofCody standing next to his Rubicon parked in the back of the cave.

Finally on the way home it was time to give my boy a few more driving lessons. I was taught to drive as soon as I could reach the pedals. I figured that tradition should continue. He can't drive for long though because his back and neck start to hurt from straining to see over the wheel. LOL

 

[ECKSJAY]

No seat belts or safety glasses?

 

[DrMoab]

No seat belts or safety glasses?

No excuse for glasses. Other than we told him to grab them off the bench and he forgot.

As far as seatbelts go... Flat road, low range nowhere for anything to go wrong. I wasn't too worried. He always wears one when I'm driving.

 

[westvirginia24976]

This day we finally talked her into shooting her brothers .22 Henry and my 10/22

Well???? Did she like it?


Oh yeah. Great pics and thanks for sharing and teaching the young ones about life beyond reality shows.

 

[DrMoab]

Lol. Yeah it was funny. So she competitively shoots a recurve bow and forever she has made excuses about how she can't shoot guns because it would take away from archery. It was BS. She knew it, we knew it but she was sticking to her guns. I knew it was fear but she would never say what she was scared of. So this day I took her off by herself and we sat down and talked about it. I finally got it out of her that she was afraid of the recoil. She really thought it would hurt. Even a .22.

So I shot a few rounds with her placing her hands on the stock so she could feel the recoil and finally she sucked it up and tried.

She actually had tears in her eyes when she fired her first shot and after that her face lit up like a little mini sun. Her whole demeanor changed. From then on she loved every second and on her way home she asked if anyone made a gun like her brothers but in pink.

 

[FlexdXJ]

Hws the grouping on your 10/22 Ryan? I'm sure you saw mine. I'm impressed with mine.

 

[DrMoab]

Shoots ok. It's just a bone stock Wal mart special. One of the limited models with the longer stainless barrels they sold a few years ago.

 

[mini=man]

How's the sr22? I've been eyeing them. My main concern is how small they are. I havent held one, but as long as theyre bigger than the p22 I think it could be a real winner.

 

[Lowrange2]

Bigger than the P22? That thing is huge for a .22! You must have Gorilla hands or something.

 

[DrMoab]

Very slightly bigger than a P22. It's smaller than my Ruger Sr9c

I like it. Shoots well. Seems quite accurate.

 

[mini=man]

Bigger than the P22? That thing is huge for a .22! You must have Gorilla hands or something.

I have tiny hands, the P22 just seemed like a toy in my hands. I carry a LC9 and that fits me perfect aside from being a little on the thin side.

Very slightly bigger than a P22. It's smaller than my Ruger Sr9c

I like it. Shoots well. Seems quite accurate.

I'm going to have to check them out as soon as I find a shop that has one in stock.

 

[DrMoab]

Heh. Good luck. We hunted high and low to find them. Got lucky that two Cal Ranch stores got two of them in. My dad and I went blasting down to the first store and they had sold one, so I bought it, then we blasted to the second store and they had already sold one too. My dad bought their last one.

 

[mini=man]

Once I get my taxes back I'll be calling around. I have quite a few stores in my area so I'll just hope for the best

 

[ktm racer 419]

i do jeeps and guns a little differently than you guys

 

[asp]

Sam, I have a few new ones we can try on it...

 

[mini=man]

My Uncle and I in front of my Jeep and my buddy's Jeep next to us this past summer.

 

[DrMoab]

Lifted jeeps are the perfect height for a gun rest.