Some 50 yard shooting today with the EVOL 15"

After a not so great outing with the .25 Alpha Wolf at 100 yard the other day I felt the need to redeem myself a bit. Weather was sunny and in the 80s up here in CT. Not much wind but a few light to medium breezes that would kick up from time to time. Went to the local public range about 10 min away from me. It's a super convenient location but a few gripes are that it's limited to 50 yards, sometimes has some really dumb PB people there (although this year most seem much more responsible) and only has 6 low BR benches with rest being 3 foot tables to shoot off standing. 3 times there so far since they opened for the season and today was the first time I was able to get a BR bench.

Anywho - brought the 16" .72 Zeus for some fun and the EVOL 15" for some target time. I had cleaned the barrel on the EVOL this morning as last time it was spitting a lot of fliers. This time it felt much more on. Only had time for about 6 magazines. So each of the targets below is 11 rounds of .22 MRD @ 920fps, sorta. Top row is 11 shots each. Middle row is a bit of a mix and the bottom left target was about a mag and a half - so around 16-17 shots. The blue circles are ~0.4" and each black square is 2". Group size is 0.5 - 0.8". I think I could've done better if I tried to read the wind that pulled a few off course. The only called flier is on the upper right shot on the upper right target - I knew I pulled that one when I squeezed the trigger.

Had a fun time, just wish I had a bit more time.

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It is nice having a range so close. Most don't tend to shoot in overcast or gloomy weather at our range. So there's often opportunity to the whole range free to work with. Plus, it is usually a lot calmer with the sun not pushing wind currents around.
It is a convenience for sure having a place so close. Due to being a public range it is shared with police and other first responder groups so public time is limited. It's only open 12-4 weekends and Wednesday so those times are usually busy and the sun is always overhead. Very little overgrowth so hard to see the breezes.

I will say one thing - shooting at a PB range has definitely helped my shooting focus. I used to be really jumpy trying to focus and shoot targets when someone next to me was mag dumping a 10" AR but I feel like I've gotten over it.

nice shooting , good target paper too
Thanks. Paper is just a 60lb stock from Amazon that I print my own targets on.

Nice shooting. How many shots do you get at 920?
Thanks - the reg is around 2200psi and I get 2 full mags. I usually do 250 bar fills, so around 37-3800psi. Not quite the full 4k psi fill, but I don't think that would get me 3 full mags anyway so might as just refill after 2 mags.