Shooting

Coast Range

Younger son and drove out to the Coast Range this afternoon to send some soda cans to their maker. Stopped at Bi-Mart in Forest Grove to buy ammunition.

• a box of 300 22's, 
• a handful of 20 gauge slugs for the shotgun along with 
• a box of target shells.
• 4 boxes of 9mm

They didn't have any ammo for the AK (7.62 x 39) or for the SVT (7.62 x 54). The bill was just shy of $100.

We drove around for a while looking for a place to shoot. We went up Jones Creek Road but there were lots of people around, maybe a couple of dozen, on motorcycles mostly but also some people with Kayaks. We also tried Hoskins Road. It was a little rough. There were numerous small rocks on the road. They looked to be about 4" tall, but they were big enough to bang into the underside of the car. The road just kept going up and up and eventually our way was blocked by a small slide. The pickup truck could have made it, but we were in the low slung Hyundai, so we turned around.

We ended up on Cedar Butte Road about 2 miles from the Wilson River Highway. We were pretty much in the clouds. We could see the area right around us, but the hills half a mile away were invisible. Since we were in the clouds it was misting pretty heavily.

No problems from the MAK-90, though we only had a dozen rounds for it. We brought two semi-automatic handguns, one 9mm and one 22 caliber. Both of them had occasional trouble feeding. Might be because they haven't been cleaned, oiled or even used lately.

I might be getting old, or maybe I am just more relaxed, but shooting the 22 was actually enjoyable. It didn't used to be that way. A 22 used to make such a small bang that it didn't feel like it was even worth shooting. 22's have the advantage of being cheap to shoot, but they don't give you same visceral thrill as shooting larger calibers.