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Well, the worst day at the range is better than the best day in the office. And since I don't have to go to the office anymore, that makes for a lot of good days!
I really can't call it a range yet though - I still need to build a target stand of some kind. But it's a nice place to spend a day -
Until I can put up a proper frame, hanging a piece of a paper shopping bag on a tree limb was enough of a target to let Kate get the feel of her new Charter Arms Undercover .38 SPL revolver. Of course she had to try my P-3AT and even though she can't rack the slide (arthritis), at least she can shoot it -
She followed with about 70 rounds through the Undercover which she found quite comfortable to shoot. She said she "used to be a good shot." Well, we were shooting at seven yards and I could cover her final five-shot group with my fist, so I'd say she still is -
OK, this is the Kel-Tec Range Forum so I'd better get back on topic. I put another hundred rounds or so through my P-3AT. I shot the new Hornady TAP 90 gr HP/XTP, the Federal Premium 90 gr Hydra-Shock JHP, some 90 gr Gold Dot HPs from Georgia Arms (a Nation's Gun Show find) and some Russian-made Silver Bear 92 gr JHPs. All shot flawlessly. Since I didn't have the means to really compare them for accuracy, I was simply interested in making sure they shot without any problems. The Russian rounds surprised me - I bought two boxes of them at the gun show when I bought the gun (they were cheap) and I had a couple of problems with the first box. I had three FTEs early on, which may have just been caused by breaking in a brand new gun. In any case, I never did anything to the gun to correct the problem and there were no problems from this box - the little Kel-Tec digested them as well as any of the others.
In taking it apart for cleaning, I learned (as did omnistuff a few days ago) that the ejector will indeed fall out if you turn the frame over while the slide and barrel are removed. I hadn't read omni's post yet and all I knew was when I turned it over, I heard something hit the deck. "What the f**k was THAT?!!" Fortunately, it did NOT fall through the cracks of the deck but once we found it I did have to take the whole thing inside to figure out how it goes back in. I do NOT see well up close and didn't want to risk losing it while I fiddled with it -
Back in it went with no problem. WHEW! Guess I'll add a spot of grease as pocketgun recommends.
One thing I learned about how I should shoot this little gun. As most if not all of you know, it's really a handful! My natural inclination is to try bear down and overpower the recoil, but if I relax a bit and don't try to over-control it, my groups tighten up. Probably common knowledge to you more experienced shooters, but I'm getting the hang of it.
So that was our day - a good one to be sure!
Joseph
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had to drop it 3...errr...5 times before we remembered to hold the grip frame right side up until we secure the ejector. And, PG is right on with the suggestion of a little glob of heavy grease to hold the ejector in place a bit better.
Originally Posted by Dillypwacker
