Nice day at the range today. Was shooting with a friend and we were using our .22 conversion kits in our AR’s to practice fast sight pictures and shots. She wound up having a .22 case do a double feed that was stuck in the receiver quite solidly. I was about to use my pocket knife to try and pry it out when she stopped me and told me that she had a tool in her bag for prying out stuck cases in AR’s. Now, there are all sorts of tools out there for that sort of thing. Heck, Gerber even sells a multitool that incorporates such a tool as one of its features. But, apparently for about a buck at any paint store you can get one of these:

And…it was darn near the perfect tool for the job. Live and learn.

Spent about four hours at the range doing drills with the .22 Glock and the Ruger MPR with the .22 kit. Also sighted in the new dot scope I put on a Ruger takedown. And I function tested a P95DC that I picked up a few weeks ago.

Most interesting was some kids (and I mean kids…like college age kids) showed up on the same range with a host of dot-sighted Glocks. This gave me a chance to get some opinions about Glock MOS vs third-party milled slide, RMR vs Holosun vs Acro, etc, etc. The short version is that it looks like optimum result will be achieved by getting the RMR on a slide that has been milled out specifically for it rather than using Glocks MOS and plates. I need to research it more, but I think that’ll be the direction I’m going…at least until I get some more research done that points me in a different direction.

All in all, a fun and productive day at the range. Getting into the habit of doing a bit of gun workout every week seems to be paying off in terms of enjoyment.