More Swiss shooting

[OLIAR15]

Wow, is there private land shooting?

Seems like with such a history and so many toys there has to be some private groups?

Dennis

There probably is but very little, Switzerland being a very tiny and mountainous country (16’000 square miles, less than West Virginia) there are not many large deserted flat areas like in the US.

Also the law puts restrictions on outdoor private land shooting, access must be restricted (i.e. fenced), noise must not be an issue for neighbours, backstops etc..

There are some groups that rent ranges or old quarries for a few hours a week for dynamic shooting, short distance boxes etc

[Dennis]

There probably is but very little, Switzerland being a very tiny and mountainous country (16’000 square miles, less than West Virginia) there are not many large deserted flat areas like in the US.

Also the law puts restrictions on outdoor private land shooting, access must be restricted (i.e. fenced), noise must not be an issue for neighbours, backstops etc..

There are some groups that rent ranges or old quarries for a few hours a week for dynamic shooting, short distance boxes etc

Well all the ranges you post pics of seem very civilized. Would be nice to see more of those here!

Dennis.

[OLIAR15]

The last day at the range before it closed for the winter

Hämmerli 215






S&W 19-3





With vintage ammo



Sig P210-2





Sig P220



Waffenfabrik Bern Parabellum 06/29





3 generations of Swiss ordnance pistols

[Gary1911A1]

Sorry your range is closing for the Winter. Hopefully you live near an indoor range where you can still shoot some.

[OLIAR15]

Well more like shooting US guns this time

Indoor range 25 m pistols and 50 m rifle

I put fresh springs in the three USGI pistols. I won’t shoot them much but I had to make sure they function well and go bang

Colt 1911 (1913)

This one was hard work, the trigger breaks at 10 lbs



Colt 1911A1 (1943)



Remington Rand 1911A1 (1943)



ArmaLite AR-10 (1958)





Springfield Armory M1A (2011)





And some rapid fire at 50 m

First time firing this new to me rifle, worked flawlessly with 3 different brands of ammo, and felt great. The mass of the rifle absorbs the recoil nicely, especially compared to the light AR-10 which kicks noticeably more

[JimmyB62]

Real nice stuff and as always, thanks for sharing. That early 1911 is very nice and as you mentioned, shoot it sparingly due to lack of heat treating. Looks like it was a great time.

[OLIAR15]

Indoor range with a few toys

1987 Makarov








1939 Walther PPK





1943 S&W Victory










1943 Remington Rand

[RioGrandeGreen]

Great post as usual. Please keep it up sir.

[OLIAR15]

The last two Saturdays a couple of friends and I decided to do something different. We have access to the summer range since my buddies are in the shooting committee, one of them is actually the President of the Association and they have the keys. They also got the green light from the local authorities. The weather was fairly nice and mostly dry.

I picked up some solid frying pans from the junkyard. Some rattle can spray. You see where this is going.



We attached them with wire to the frame at the 50 m lanes (there’s also this little metallic arrow, and we shot some cigar tubes as well, those are challenging targets even with a scoped .22 and a little wind).





And off they go



This is what it looks like at 50 meters



We brought several guns with us and decided to limit it to .22 lr. since families like to stroll in this region and we didn’t want to be too much of a nuisance.

Scoped Savage Mark II bolt action (not pictured)
FN Trombone pump action



Scoped Ruger 10-22 semi auto



Sig P210 .22 lr conversion



AMT Lightning



One buddy brought this nice S&W 17-6 8 3/8”
and a semi auto FN in .22 short



Another buddy brought a CZ 457 bolt action rifle and his new Glock 44

Temperature is cold but the range is hot





We had a ton of (cheap) fun and blasted some 7-800 rounds..



Good thing I recently bought 5000 rounds at $ 90.-/1000





I also brought along my two Anacondas to show them to my friends. They couldn’t resist and insisted we put a couple of rounds with the 4”. I had some old Remington 240 JHP in the speedloaders



Went trough like butter









Another great shooting day in Switzerland.

[OLIAR15]

Took some more real Classic handguns at the 25 m indoor range today

1979 FN GP35 Capitan





1940 Colt M1903 Hammerless (that one was a bit of a stretch at 25 m today)



1936 Mauser Luger





1979 Colt GM Mark IV series’ 70 9mm Luger





1972 S&W 66



And a Classic rifle at the 50m range
1980 Colt AR-15 SP1 carbine with a vintage 3X Colt scope