{"id":16248,"date":"2012-08-20T16:40:46","date_gmt":"2012-08-20T21:40:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/?p=16248"},"modified":"2012-08-20T16:40:46","modified_gmt":"2012-08-20T21:40:46","slug":"prepping-for-ruger-rimfire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/prepping-for-ruger-rimfire\/16248\/","title":{"rendered":"Prepping for Ruger Rimfire"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_16249\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16249\" class=\"size-full wp-image-16249\" title=\"markIIImodes\" src=\"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/markIIImodes.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"295\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/markIIImodes.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/markIIImodes-300x177.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-16249\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Majestic Mark III mods&#8230;<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I did manage to get to the range yesterday with my Sweetie, who&#8217;s still on Injured Reserve. I decided to just focus on .22s, since the Colorado State Ruger Rimfire championship is only a few weeks away. I&#8217;ll be shooting the match and we&#8217;ll be filming if for SHOOTING GALLERY, as well as a Ruger Rimfire class taught by Tim Norris. I was very very pleased with my iron-sighted\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ruger.com\/products\/markIIITarget\/models.html\" target=\"_blank\">Ruger Mark III Target<\/a> as overhauled by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.majesticarms.com\/\">Majestic Arms<\/a>. It&#8217;s not a balls-to-the-wall custom target pistol, but it shoots extremely well. I added a red fiber optic front sight, which is a help for the old eyes.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not so sanguine on my rifle. As you may remember, last year I shot my old\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ruger.com\/products\/1022Target\/models.html\">10\/22 Target<\/a> fitted with AR-15 style sights in the iron sight division. I&#8217;d previously shot the same rifle with a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tasco.com\/products\/index.cfm?ClassID=13&amp;FamilyID=163&amp;ProductID=671\">Tasco Pro Point<\/a> red dot in open class and been very pleased with he performance. The AR sights and I didn&#8217;t get along well&#8230;my right eye&#8217;s retina is permanently damaged from the shingles attack several years back. I can get a clean sight picture off my left eye (both lenses ahem been replaced), and an <em>adequate<\/em> sight picture with a fiber optic front sight off my right eye. So I replaced the heavy hammer-forged Ruger barrel with a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gmriflebarrel.com\/rugertargetbarrels\/10-22920sporterdiameterbarrels\/ruger-10-22-920-bull-barrels-page\/18-stainless-fluted-920-w-fire-sights\">Green Mountain fluted stainless barrel<\/a> fitted with Williams Fire Sights. I was faster with this iteration of the rifle, but not as fast as I need to be. I&#8217;m hoping to get in another range session or two before the match, and I think I&#8217;ll focus strictly on the rifle.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe I should just suck it up and shoot open with a red dot on both the rifle and the pistol. My rational for shooting irons has been that my primary competition is cowboy, where everybody shoots iron sights!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was very very pleased with my iron-sighted Ruger Mark III Target as overhauled by Majestic Arms. It&#8217;s not a balls-to-the-wall custom target pistol, but it shoots extremely well. I added a red fiber optic front sight, which is a help for the old eyes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":16249,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[116,167,13],"tags":[2416],"class_list":["post-16248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bloggers","category-dropped-shot","category-michael-bane","tag-ruger-rimfire-competitions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16248\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}