Bangity, Bangity, Bangity

I left work a little early today and went to the range. I had two excuses: First, I had bought three more Chip McCormick 8-round magazines for my .45 and I needed to try them out. They fed fine and dropped free when empty. Second, I wanted to "unload through the muzzle" the self-defense ammo I had for my 9mm and replace it with fresh stuff.

I tried working on speed drills at 25', getting two quicker shots off into the center-of-mass and then one more for the head. Again, these are not full-sized silhouettes.

This was the .45:

Two clean misses, four grazes.

And the 9mm:


I was really trying for speed and touching off the shots when the sights looked close enough for gummint work, which is probably why I got a lot of vertical stringing. Three, maybe four clean misses and a couple grazes.

I do need to work on my speed drills, but man, that gets expensive fast.

Anyway, I come to report on trying out something called "Copper Cutter" from Slip 2000. It is a non-toxic gun cleaner that seems to be ammonia-based and doesn't stink up the place like Hoppes No. 9. Someone recommended it in a comment here when I was moaning about the stink of Hoppes and about having to wear a VOC-filtering respirator when using it. I ordered three bottles of the stuff over the Internets and tonight was the try-out.

It does seem to work very well. After 55 rounds through the .45, it took three patches saturated with Copper Cutter to clean the bore. And afterwards, the guns don't reek of cleaner.

p.s.; any resemblance between the targets and a penguin is purely a figment of your imagination, badtux.