Thread: Interesting trip to the range

Headed to the range today to have a play with the new old Norinco JW-15a and get my eldest daughter to have a go with the 223. Also had Cambo along to have a play with his new toy.

Well the Norinco didn't work at all well. After putting on a good scope on top of it, bore sighting and grabbing a selection of ammo to try I couldn't get it to feed properly. The main problem being the same one someone else had issues with a few weeks ago on here ... no room for the bolt handle; and some dim wit who hadn't checked even after reading thread on it.

Never mind: time to get the girl on the 223. I thought this would be interesting as even though she hasn't used my toys very much she has certainly shot very well with my 22lr when she has. Up till now she has only had one shot at 100m and that one ended up with a very unwell rabbit with a bit of lead in the boiler room. So this was her first shot with a centre fire. Well the first shot was right where it should have been. Mutter, mutter, I shouldn't let her play with my toys as she always seems to show me up. Next shot, yes about 20mm away from the first. Mutter, mutter. Then the groups started to open up a bit. I'm sort of feeling happier now, sort of, I think.

I had a little chat to her about it tonight and the upshot is that she didn't like the way the suppressed 223 with a really soft butt pad pushed her back and she was closing her eyes when she pulled the trigger. Think it's time for some of those harden up pills and a name change to Woosie.

Mind you it was better than my awful attempts with Cambo's new 270wsm. After he sighted it in I had a couple of shots. I kept my peepers open but still couldn't figure out where the holes appeared, and there was no shortage of paper up the sharp end to put said holes. But that is one nice slick toy.