Day 689

We got up at 8 again today.  We did the pet stuff and had breakfast.  Then it was surfing until it was time to leave for Tri-county.

We met Dan and Alicia at the gate and went to the 100 yd range.  Alicia's gun was OK due to yesterday's work.  I used the bore sight on Hooch's gun and he was on paper immediately.

I thought I'd bore sighted Ellen's gun.  We worked for an hour or so trying to get it even on paper.  Finally I decided to re-bore sight it.  That's when I discovered/remembered that it has an aluminum flash hider and the bore sight won't stick to it.  At that point we gave up.

I got out the 10/22.  It was really accurate, but it wouldn't shoot more than one or two shots before the trigger wouldn't reset.  It was very frustrating.  Alicia and Dan had a good time, and Ellen shot their guns a little, too.  I was pissed.

I went off to walk the dog since there was nothing for me to shoot.  We walked to the black powder range.  That's when I discovered that you could shoot rimfire there.  I walked back and waited for the others to finish.  I took them over to the balck powder range and they all thought it would be fun to shoot the silhouettes.

When we left about 3:00 Hooch took Alicia to some school meeting and told us to meet him at home at 5:30.  We went to Cabela's to buy a cartridge bore sight and a case for the .308.  The rifle case I was using was really old and falling apart. We found both items, and bought them.  Hooch called and told us Martha would be pissed if we ate that late.  We were hungry and got Wendy's sandwiches across the parking lot.

Since we had more time to kill, I decided to look for a .22 rifle to use at the black powder range.  They didn't have any good 10/22's with threaded barrels.  The only other scope ready lever/auto rifle was a Browning lever action.  It was expensive, but I decided to buy it.  The clerk said wait and let me look up on the computer.  He found a blued Henry with an octagon barrel.  It was perfect, and cost $150 less than the Browning.  We bought it using my club points.

It was 5:00 by the time that was done, so we headed north.  For some reason northbound 217 was backed up and southbound was fine.  Go figure. 

When we called to ask Hooch said I should pick up dessert. We stopped at Bales.  I met Hooch and family at the front door.  Martha and Alicia told me to buy a Rocky Road pie and ice cream.  So I did.  Ellen and I stopped at the pet store for doggy treats on the way to dinner.

Martha had fixed salmon and rice.  It was really good.  When we described the black powder range Martha and Sophia said they wanted to shoot, so we're going again tomorrow.

The drive home sucked.  We planned on turning off at the Canby exit because of the paving.  Traffic down to the Wilsonville exit was really good.  From there to the Canby exit (2 miles) it was a parking lot.  Some jack asses had piled it up just at the exit and the two right lanes were blocked.  At the bridge the paving people had put up a "left two lanes blocked" sign.  That had everyone moving to the right, just so they could move back to the left.  It took us at least half an hour to go those 2 miles.

We got home in time to go to sleep.