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Sunday, November 29, 2020

Beretta Neos .22 magazines work fine in the Colt Cadet (AKA Colt .22 Pistol); I ordered three more.


For a good long time I've been using a pair of Beretta Neos mags along with a pair of Colt .22 mags; this pistol doesn't care one way or the other which mag I stuff into it.  The Neos mags have a plastic butt plate is the only difference that I have noticed.  

I have one unoccupied Wilson pistol case; it has slots for seven mags and I figured it is high time for me to assign it to the Colt .22 so I can arrange everything into a range-kit.  This will be my primary range gun until the current ammo panic subsides.  I look forward to having seven magazines for those range sessions.

EDIT 12/04/2020: They're here!  Arrived a couple or more days ago.  Hat tip to Beretta USA; they got them here promptly regardless of the impact of Covid-19 has had.  Salute!

THE RANGE KIT FOR THIS PISTOL IS NOW COMPLETE!
Magazine stowage, ammo stowage, and pistol stowage all in one.  The kit fits inside my range bag that has my protection for eyes and ears along with the sundry other universal range essentials and options.  I hate spending precious range time fumbling around, looking for this or that.



NOW, LET'S GET BACK TO TALKING 'BOUT .22 AMMO.
I've got ~1,000-rounds of the Winchester loads pictured above (top photo); they are very old and now is a very good time for me to burn 'em up. 


These are standard velocity lead (with no copper wash) target loads.  They too are very old.  I have ~3,000-rounds of them and they cycle through this pistol well enough.  It's time for me to burn them out of the inventory.  They will also make good fodder for my .22 revolver range sessions.



The above Remington Viper loads are very hot but they do not lead the barrel of this pistol like the Remington Thunderbolt loads do (that's a story for another day). There's 'bout 500-rounds left in this box and they are old enough to be in college; it's time for me to burn through them too.

Grand total is ~4,500 rounds of .22 LR in the ammo cache that are expendable.  Using 200-rounds per session will get me through roughly 22-range visits.  



(Above: 10-rounds each distance, 9-feet, 12-feet, 15-feet, 21-feet, 30-feet)

I go to the range with three basic goals; be safe, have fun, and (to the best of my ability) learn something.  I'm an old short-distance tin can chaser when it comes to shooting .22 handguns.  My eyes are not good enough nor are my skills refined enough to ever put 10-rounds into a group the size of a quarter at 50-feet.  There are some amazing .22 caliber pistoleros in this world and I'll never be one of them, but it is a barrel of fun to keep on trying.


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