Weather

[Brad]

Is anyone else finding that Mother Nature is wreaking havoc on plans to get out and shoot?
I am off today, it is going to rain. Matter of fact, we are forecast for rain all week.
I will shoot in colder weather, heat, clouds, or sun, but I don't shoot in rain. I don't like being wet and I hate coming home and needing to dry everything I own.

Why can't it rain on days when I work and leave my days off alone?

 

[freebullet]

From what I heard you ain't gunna melt Brad.

Our shooting benches are covered. Um I use them whenever I have time.

Yesterday it was raining with no lightning and manageable wind so we put on rain gear and went the other route. Caught a couple dinners.

 

[45 2.1]

That's why you build a nice 400 yard range with a weather proof shooting building out behind the house. I you have no trouble seeing the target, the rain doesn't effect the groups..... until you have a difficult time seeing the target (then you get flyers).

 

[Ian]

Had a few nice weekends recently but had to do other stuff that's been neglected all winter. This week is solid rain, man do we need every drop.

 

[Brad]

I did get 350 bullets cast for the 44 mag. Heat treated those and around 300 more I had kicking around. That meant a run thru a Lee sizer first.

 

[35 shooter]

I think we've had rain every week since the 2nd week of Dec. where i live. A lot of the time it's been 3 to 4 days a week. Finally no rain slated for this week. I don't think anyone will have trouble getting a garden to grow this year!
No cover over the benches at the range where i shoot at the most...if it rains, you get wet.
It's been a tough year so far trying to "guess" which day to try to shoot on!!

 

[KHornet]

Got to agree with Brad! I will shoot in all kinds of weather, but dislike rain (with wind of course) the most, covered bench or not!

 

[Pistolero]

Has anybody actually verified that bullets hitting raindrops doesn't affect anything? I've
wondered whether ammo testing in the rain was a futile process, but never actually
tested the theory.

My biggest issue is I can't mow and have many acres getting really knee deep but still too soggy
to run the Great Dane over without leaving permanent ruts. Ask me how I know about that!

I was walking over my prospective range today. It will only be 100 yds, but I plan on a shooting house,
likely with some reloading gear, insulation and a heater at the 100 yd line. 50 yd and 25 yd will
be open benches, one to left of 100 yd bullet path and one to the right. Hope to get the berm in
later this year.
That 400 yd range sounds awfully nice!

 

[45 2.1]

Has anybody actually verified that bullets hitting raindrops doesn't affect anything? I've wondered whether ammo testing in the rain was a futile process, but never actually
tested the theory.

That 400 yd range sounds awfully nice!

My observation wasn't speculation........ and your own range, a longer one at that, is quite nice.

 

[Pistolero]

OK, so now I can shoot in the rain.

 

[fiver]

I shoot when I got time.
our benches are covered, the only time it really sucks is when the wind blows rain or snow under the cover or if it's -20 with the wind blowing. [then I don't bother]
winter time is a great time for me to shoot, there's usually nobody there and the city keeps the road down to the range open.
wading out to the targets limits me to 50 yds a lot of the time but I'm still out there shooting.

speaking of which it's been raining almost daily here I got a day of fishing in earlier this week but it was touch and go with the wind shifting back and forth making things tough.

 

[KHornet]

I try to shoot at least once a week year round, which is a challenge some winter weeks in Nebraska. However belonging to an indoor range within 5 miles of home, helps improve my limited accuracy with hand guns somewhat during the weeks that weather wise, are just plain yucky!

 

[Charles Graff]

We have lots of rain and an infestation of mosquitoes down here in deep South Texas. The upside is I have not had to water my trees, plants and grass yet this year.

 

[35 shooter]

Here it is june and we finally get week with no rain in the forecast except light chances.
Of course the last time we had a forecast like that it still managed to rain a couple of days that week.
Hope the weather pattern here is FINALLY changing!

 

[carpetman]

You hear about all the floods in Texas, but the part I'm in needs rain. Lakes about 10% capacity. I had a nice St Augustine lawn, but watering restrictions have left me with mostly a bare lawn and weeds, which still have to be mowed.

 

[carpetman]

Fiver---What type fish are you fishing for?