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Originally Posted by Cortexian
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Originally Posted by Cortexian
Wrote a thing about WWII scopes.
Interesting read.
PICTERS
In the sun
In the shade (hello bayonet let's be friends)
Counterbores are for scrubs
http://i.imgur.com/SIor9.jpg
:-3
Probably going shooting this coming week, planning to run at least a hundred rounds through my Mosin.
I hope you buy more ammo, because what you pictured there isn't really close to 100 rounds. Sorry to break it to you!!
My Thompson/Center Venture came back yesterday from being fixed after the recall of all models prior to October 2011. Except no one at home here (three people) heard the delivery guy, so I assuming he just didn't knock and decided that it would just be cool if he left a note on the door telling us that they would try delivery again AFTER THE WEEKEND.
Hey buddy, I know you want to get off work early cause it's Friday and everything but you're a fucking douchebag. My father went out camping/off-roading this weekend, I even said to him that if the gun was back by then I'd go with him to try it out and just have fun shooting. Way to ruin my weekend Loomis Express (DHL)!!
Oh well, I will probably go this week sometime with a friend if/when I can get him to come out. Last time he gave himself this by being a n00b shooter:
http://img688.imageshack.us/img688/5015/scopebite.jpg
Yes... That is scope-bite from my T/C Venture .30-06 lol. It was actually pretty bad, he needed stitches for it and has a scar now. He was a manly-man about it though and just smothered it in fresh snow to help quicken the healing and deaden the pain. Then we went shotgunning (of which I have a video on YouTubes).
I'm sorry, but n00b shooting 101: Don't get close to the scope with your eye because it'll often bite.
I've been hit in the eye by a scope before
popped a really bad ingrown hair once
Had pus all over my gun
Probably the funniest fucking thing to ever happen to me whilst shooting.
I was about eight when I fired my first shotgun. My dad handed me this bulky 8-gauge monster of a thing and set up a foam cup in front of a series of railroad ties (I don't remember where the hell we got them). For some idiotic reason, the safety was off.
He tells me to shoot it. I pull the gun up a little bit above my shoulder, because it was biting into my arm. My short, scrawny left hand barely holds the thing up.
I lean my head right and to the back to see if I can sight the cup. I pull the trigger, the gun goes off, kicks back, hits me square in the chin, and almost knocks me on my ass.
That must've been the intention, because him and the rest of the small crowd of relatives gathered around started cracking up. I had a bad bloody lip, but I was a boss about it. Of course, I was half deaf for another five minutes, so I didn't have to endure any mocking that usually goes around in my backward, redneck family.
I wasn't really about to open the other 180 rounds just for a photo, then have to clean it all up. I bought 200 and shot five (dad shot one too) last time, since we had to run outside during a break in the torrential downpour.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cortexian
Yeah this is like the absolute worst thing to do with a new shooter (or introducing an experienced one to a new type of firearm) because it is fucking dangerous and either scares them off outright or causes bad habits (flinching). First shotgun I fired was a .410, which was mild as hell, then a 12ga with target loads. I had an awesome time.Quote:
Originally Posted by DarkHalcyon
With all of that said, people have a tendency to really overstate recoil. I don't know if it's because we've all been pussified (probably not since old dudes do it too) or what, but from what I had heard about it, I was kind of apprehensive the first time I shot my dad's Winchester (7mm Rem Mag). I shot some light stuff first (160gr) and then moved onto his usual moosefucker load (175gr moving at ALL of the feet per second) next. It was pretty solid, but it didn't hurt and I had no trouble shooting it until he decided I was going to go through all his super-expensive ammo if he didn't stop me. Same with my Mosin; "ohhh it hurts, couldn't possibly spend all day shooting with it". Yeah, speak for yourself, I could. It really doesn't recoil much harder than my No.4, and both of those are more of a firm push than a kick.
I'm really lightly built too so I don't see what all the fucking crying is about. The only reason to use a buttpad on WWII milsurp is a) if it's an anti-tank rifle or b) if you need added LOP (like Hickok with his 91/30). Shit, even my little sister handles the recoil fine, and she's like... 13. She started on .22, then up to .22-250, then under very careful supervision she took a shot with my Enfield. Then another, and another, and emptied a whole mag and wants to shoot the Mosin next time we go out blasting things. Maybe she's an okay kid after all :-3
First gun I ever shot was a .308 and it was at my first deer ever. I got that deer too, perfect shot. So perfect we couldn't actually find the entrance/exit wounds or blood on the carcass anywhere. To this day we're of the opinion that I gave it a heart-attack and it just fell over. Never had any practice with a firearm before that except with my little Crossman CO2 Pellet gun. They told me what to expect with the .308 and how to hold it right and I was actually fine, I've never been bitten by a scope.
I would have that one time I was shooting that Tavor on the range, I was just having so much fun pumping 10-round mags down-range (the most you can semi-legally put in a magazine in Canada for semi-auto's) that I wasn't paying attention to my grip or stance at one point. Inadvertently bump fired it 3 times and it climbed as sure as I had fired it on full-auto. Some douchebag self-appointed range officer* actually asked me to make sure it was legal.
*You know the guys I'm talking about, those faggots who show up to public ranges and take on the responsibilities of yelling at anyone who even touches their rifle when someone is downrange. Even though your rifle is actually slung, bolt open, magazine out, and you're just checking the action to make sure it is ACTUALLY clear.
