Went out to the range yesterday for a bit of trigger time. One of the LMI wanted to do some work with his .308 at 500 meters so I figured I’d tag along. Iwanted to make sure the FAL was functioning properly after I detail stripped the lower and degreased it (and then reset the gas system) and I was curious to see how my CZ did at that distance.
I only fired a couple rounds downrange from the CZ. I had to hold about 5′ high to hit at 500 meters but the resultant group was about 7″ or 1.4 MOA. My goal is < MOA but Im working on it. My buddy was shooting his Rem. .308 and his tweaked out 7mm Rem. Mag. Results seemed about the same.
The FAL functioned fine and dandy. Still gotta get a bipod for it though.
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Used the long line-of-sight at the range to test out the Motorola radios. I brought two - the Motorola Distance DPS and the smaller hand-grenade shaped Talkabout 5500 series. The DPS was much clearer and louder at long range than the smaller radios. Naturally, Motorola sicontinued the DPS but they can be found on eBay at prices that reflect their desirability. Its a decent FRS/GMRS radio and has a couple handy features...one of which is the ability to use a rechargeable battery pack or 6-AA batts. As I understand it, they also lend themselves quite nicely to being modified for all sorts of FCC-violating goodness.
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2005 comes to a close. In the annals of preparedness/survivalism this year will be defined by hurricane Katrina and its resultant pwnage of New Orleans. For the next twenty years, unless theres a greater disaster, this will be the event pointed to in most preparedness texts and survivalist newsgroups. Discount Katrina and the heavy hurricane season, however, and it was a fairly quiet year for the prepared. 2006? Hmmm....my crystal ball is fuzzy but I predict more terrorist-inspired laws/policy changes and abuses. I forsee the backlash against the Patriot Act and current administration reaching a breaking point and a 'revolt' taking place in Washington with many of the terrorism-related laws being reduced/removed/watered down. A guy can hope, right?
2005 saw me getting a few more things done. Re-organized the bunker, completed my acquisition of FAL mags, saw another ten cases of MRE's get tucked away, saw some progress on the radio/communications front, and a host of other small things. In short, forward progress was made. For 2006 I expect at least as much progress.
I should probably, at this point, also offer wishes for a happy, prosperous, well-stocked and heavily-armed 2006 to the readership and the, I think, host of lurkers out there.
For giggles, I wouldnt mind hearing what you all were doing six years ago today on 12/31/99 when the Y2K thing was still making headlines. Ignored it or sat up all night with your hands on the generator switch?
Me, I was sitting in front of my TV in my winter camo with my AR and watching the news at midnight.
