Cold Range

Went to the range today for the first time in awhile and met up with Tosh. First shooting outing of 2023.

It was right at Zero degrees Celsius, 32 Fahrenheit, pretty much winds calm and full overcast so the cold kinda crept up on us. Some snow on the ground overnight, but the roads were pretty much clear which was nice.

On the upside it meant the suppressor cans cooled off right quick.

Tosh had his first suppressor, a Griffin Armament RECCE5, that he had on his AR15.  Took a year for it to get out of suppressor jail.

It worked great.

I also had a couple new guns out, one of which will get its own post.

The other is new to me but a Surplus Police Sig P320 Carry Pro pistol.

It looked like it hadn't been shot or carried much, but the top cover over the optics channel was gummed up pretty hard and one of the allen key screws holding it in place had been blundered - so badly it had to be laser cut to remove.

I then after freeing the optics cover added a Leupold Delta Point Pro, a Streamlight TLR-1HL, and my Hannukah present  -  A Wilson Combat carry frame.  

The Carry Pro frame is kinda chonky.  The WC frame, by comparison, fits my hand wonderfully and is slimmed down, has a higher relief cut behind the trigger and has excellent grippy-ness with excellent texture on the front, back and sides of the grip.

Changing the frames was a snap, as all you need to do is remove the fire control unit that is the serialized part, and put it into the new frame. The new frame looks and feels great.

 I then zeroed the sight,  tucked it into a PHLster Floodlight holster, pulled the sweatshirt over it, and put it on the clock.

Lack of practice for quite a few months definitely showed.

After couple warm-up runs, I managed to get the 3&2 drill down to 3 seconds, then I scored a best run of 2.48 seconds, which I was rather happy about after all this time away from the range.  Cold hands didn't help much either.

Bill drills didn't break the 3 second mark, most were around 3.5 or more and that clearly was from a lack of practice.  7 yard single shots were around 1.67 with some higher.

Overall, I seem to shoot it better than my Glocks, but we will see. The pistol had zero failures and shot really nicely.

The Delta Point Pro has a lovely-sized window and acquiring the dot quickly is very easy. The pistol is definitely a keeper, and the 21-round magazines I bought for it make for 3 Bill drills or 4 3&2 drills before you need to reload.

We then shot some rifles at 100 yards, and then called it a day.  Rather cold by the end of it, so after we cleaned up, we headed out to grab some burgers and libations to mark the end of a successful range trip.

Not a bad way to spend a Saturday morning.