Day 695

We got up a little after 8 did pet stuff and had breakfast.  After that I went out to clean the barrel on a rifle that I wanted to shoot.  It was incredibly dirty.  I worked on it for at least an hour running patches through and scrubbing it with a brush.  I finally got it to a clean, if not pristine, condition.

After that we went shooting.  Unfortunately the battery on the rig was dead again.  I put the charger on it.  We had to walk, which really disappointed the dog.  We practiced at the 5-stand.  It was fun.  When we were finished we talked at the club for awhile and then went back to the trailer for lunch.

After lunch and some surfing I loaded up the car for Tri-county.  We stopped at Wally World on the way up for a few grocery items.

We made great time, traveling between 75 and 80 for much of the time on I5.  The meant we were early getting to the club.  Hooch was late (surprise, surprise).  We spent the time shooting the lever action at the black powder range.  That rifle is lots of fun.

When Hooch got there we went to the 100 yd range.  He shot his .223, but had a lot of trouble sighting it in.  Alicia shot the 10/22 and late in the session shot the .223 also.  She did really well.  Ellen's sight was on paper the first shot.  She couldn't manage to shoot a small enough group to fine tune the sight.  I shot a couple of groups and got it centered for me.  Ellen spent the rest of the session trying to shoot 3 shots in less than 3 inches at 50 yds.  I'm not sure she ever did.

I shot a grand total of 5 shots with the rifle I brought.  It wouldn't feed a second shot and I didn't want to screw with it.  I strongly suspect that I'll never shoot it again.  Life's too short to mess with it.

When we were finished we went to the Sherwood McMiniman's for dinner.  There's a lot of new places we could have gone, but we didn't know which allowed doggies.

After dinner I took Alicia to the Baskin-Robbins a few door down.  Hooch said that she'll have to eat quick in order to get home in time for bed.

We drove back to I5 on the highway because Oregon street was closed for paving.  Fortunately it wasn't crowded.  We lucked out on the I5 paving.  We went through at 8:45, 15 minutes before they started.  Traffic was still moving.  I'm worried about later in the week.  They are doing the stretch by the rest area, which means traffic will be backed up before the Canby exit.  We may have to go home via Newburg.

When we got home it was TV and surfing for the rest of the evening.