{"id":1742,"date":"2007-09-09T17:03:21","date_gmt":"2007-09-09T22:03:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=1742"},"modified":"2007-09-12T17:22:17","modified_gmt":"2007-09-12T22:22:17","slug":"range-day-range-day-party-time-excellent-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=1742","title":{"rendered":"RANGE DAY! RANGE DAY! PARTY TIME! EXCELLENT!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wow, did I ever need that. <\/p>\n<p>I took the Marlin out, the one I bought in 30-30 wcf and have rebarreled to 44 remington Magnum. The first of ten shots went into the berm, with sandags etc wrapped around the action. Once I knew it wasn&#8217;t gonna blow up, I started looking at the sights. Wanted to see hwo the new barrel shot.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s how it shot:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image1743\" height=300 alt=44magtarget1.jpg src=\"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/44magtarget1.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The ninth shot was good. 25 yards, offhand. Should be able to do better with a decent marbles sight, hoping i can get a tang. <\/p>\n<p>THe gun itself needs a bluing, but a good friend helped me yesterday with the stock, and made it, frankly, quite presentable.  here&#8217;s a shot of it leaning against the kitchen window. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image1744\" height=60 alt=marlin.jpg src=\"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/marlin.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And frankly, who wouldn&#8217;t go to the range, when this is the kind of thing you see there. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image1745\" height=500 alt=shooter.JPG src=\"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/shooter.JPG\" \/><\/p>\n<p>She&#8217;s shooting a brown bess musket. She looks better from the front than from the back, trust me on that. Her extraordinarily well-armed husband allowed me to take her picture, and I emailed him a copy. Snapped the shot just as she sent that big ball downrange. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wow, did I ever need that. I took the Marlin out, the one I bought in 30-30 wcf and have rebarreled to 44 remington Magnum. The first of ten shots went into the berm, with sandags etc wrapped around the action. Once I knew it wasn&#8217;t gonna blow up, I started looking at the sights. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1742"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1742\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}