I get zero joy in going to or shooting at any range. Only reason I go is to sight in or confirm gun is zeroed. Fire as few shots as possible and leave before anyone can ask me about my setup. One of my cheapest rifles is prob my favorite to shoot at live targets. It’s a Ruger American Predator in 308. Shooting suppressed recoil is light and it shoots lights out.

M1 Garand does it for me.

I almost forgot about one of my most favorite for the range. Another from my Swedish military rifle collection. It is an 1867-89 Husqvarna Rolling Block made in 1869. A friend hand picked it in Sweden and imported it himself. Originally would have been in 12.17x42R Rim Fire. Then converted to 12.7x44R centerfire starting in 1889 by replacing the breechblock and hammer. I first tried fire forming 348 Winchester brass and that did not work out. then I went with 50 Alaskan Brass and it did not work out either. It was as if my rifle had an oversize rim and chamber. After doing a cast of the chamber it turned out 50-70 brass fit perfectly without cutting down the brass andit also provided the larger rim diameter I needed to extract right. I believe the rifle had been converted to 50-70 at some point which would not have taken much to do considering the Swedes developed the original round from our 50-70 to begin with. I only shoot it with black powder loads and cast bullets. That big puff of smoke with every shot is so cool. Not to mention shooting a 150+ year old rifle. I made up 50 big game hunting rounds for it long ago and sighted it in for them, but have yet to take it hunting.