togor
05-10-2018, 06:15
A couple evenings ago some guys were firing away in the public land next door. Target shooting isn't verboten but not common either. Well yesterday I went out to see if I could find the spot where they were shooting. Not hard to find, right off the main trail. Trying to reconstruct what they were doing. Found a line of spent casings with impact scars in the ground about 8 yards away. A little busted plastic but not much. I guestimated over 200 rounds when they were shooting, off and on over about a 30 minute period. I found about 70 .45 auto casings scattered in the tall dead grass (probably 1 or 2 still there for every one that I found), 21 cases of tula 7.62x54, and, unexpected, 101 nice cases of Winchester .308 brass, factory loads, easy ejects with no autoloader marks on the rim or mouth, probably from a bolt or slide gun.
I'm happy for the brass but it seems like an odd way to go through north of $100 in ammo. Maybe they were glad to finally get the really tight groups shooting off hand.
I'm happy for the brass but it seems like an odd way to go through north of $100 in ammo. Maybe they were glad to finally get the really tight groups shooting off hand.