The Pickle: A Little Plinking - Truth Spoken Here

5/26/2007

A Little Plinking

My wife and I decided to head out and check out a local gun store that we've not yet visited since moving to Texas. While there she saw a Ruger Mark III. I've been wanting to pick up one of those and she really liked the way it felt, so look what came home with us.

So then the after coming home I decided to head out to the local range. I've not been to the range in probably two months. So I snagged the Ruger and my CZ-75 and headed to the range. Here's the result of 200 rounds of .22 cycled through the Ruger and 80 rounds of .40 S&W through the CZ-75 at a range of 25 yards. I'm not sure, but I think it's pretty dead.

All in all I have to say that the new Ruger is pretty damned accurate for a .22 pistol. Not a bad buy. I had been having some issues with the sights on the CZ-75, it was consistently hitting high and left ever since I bought it. I think this target pretty well proves that the last sight adjustment got it dead on.

Labels: CZ-75, Guns, Marksmanship, Reviews, Ruger Mark III

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Fiddlers' Green

Halfway down the trail to Hell,
In a shady meadow green
Are the Souls of all dead troopers camped,
Near a good old-time canteen.
And this eternal resting place
Is known as Fiddlers' Green.
Marching past, straight through to Hell
The Infantry are seen.
Accompanied by the Engineers,
Artillery and Marines,
For none but the shades of Cavalrymen
Dismount at Fiddlers' Green.
Though some go curving down the trail
To seek a warmer scene.
No trooper ever gets to Hell
Ere he's emptied his canteen.
And so rides back to drink again
With friends at Fiddlers' Green.
And so when man and horse go down
Beneath a saber keen,
Or in a roaring charge of fierce melee
You stop a bullet clean,
And the hostiles come to get your scalp,
Just empty your canteen,
And put your pistol to your head
And go to Fiddlers' Green.