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A sad experience at the Range
William81
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I stopped off at the range yesterday to fire a few rounds through my
Glock 23 and 27. I has just finished setting up when a car came in and out jumped a person I had met before. He loudly exclaimed, "wait till you see my new sniper rifle, I just picked it up." The guy is fairly new to shooting and got me all excited about seeing something special. He comes to the line with a very beat up AK clone with a cheap 4X scope and plastic bi-pod.
Not wanting to rain on his parade, I listened as he went on and on about how accurate the seller had told him it was and how he got a great deal on it. ($550.00 OUCH)
He set up at 100 yards and fired off the first shot which jammed up the works. I helped him clear it and he fired off two more shots and then another jam.
Checking the target revealed no hits anywhere on the 2 x 2 foot target he set up. I convinced him to go up to the twenty five yard line and we cleared his gun. I had him unload it and we put some oil in the right places. That and a different mag seems to take care of the feeding problems. After about 20 rounds and some work on the scope mount we finally got the thing to print 6' groups at 50 yards.
I really felt bad for the guy. He thought he had bought a tack driver and ended up with a below average shooter. I explained to him that the gun he had purchased was not designed as a sniper rifle and if the seller had indicated it was such, he was being less than honest with him.
I really hate to see a newbie get ripped off like that....
Glock 23 and 27. I has just finished setting up when a car came in and out jumped a person I had met before. He loudly exclaimed, "wait till you see my new sniper rifle, I just picked it up." The guy is fairly new to shooting and got me all excited about seeing something special. He comes to the line with a very beat up AK clone with a cheap 4X scope and plastic bi-pod.
Not wanting to rain on his parade, I listened as he went on and on about how accurate the seller had told him it was and how he got a great deal on it. ($550.00 OUCH)
He set up at 100 yards and fired off the first shot which jammed up the works. I helped him clear it and he fired off two more shots and then another jam.
Checking the target revealed no hits anywhere on the 2 x 2 foot target he set up. I convinced him to go up to the twenty five yard line and we cleared his gun. I had him unload it and we put some oil in the right places. That and a different mag seems to take care of the feeding problems. After about 20 rounds and some work on the scope mount we finally got the thing to print 6' groups at 50 yards.
I really felt bad for the guy. He thought he had bought a tack driver and ended up with a below average shooter. I explained to him that the gun he had purchased was not designed as a sniper rifle and if the seller had indicated it was such, he was being less than honest with him.
I really hate to see a newbie get ripped off like that....
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~Secret Select Society Of Suave Stylish Smoking Jackets~
"Respect my authority"
I have been around guns all my life,Taught small arms in the military. still dont know much about them. but really get my shorts twisted when this happens.
LR
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Edited by - MPinkston on 05/25/2002 17:29:48
Shoot straight!
"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
"Respect my authority"
Sounds like the story I heard where the guy at the gunshop sold the newbie woman looking for a self-defense gun a Colt Gold Cup instead of the 2-4" .38 Special he should have (the Gold Cup made him more money, ya know).
I may disagree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.--Voltaire~Secret Select Society Of Suave Stylish Smoking Jackets~
**NOT!**
First of all, sniper rifle is an inherent military term. I would think a sniper rifle would mean A)It's for long range interdiction, and nothing else, B)It's pinpoint-accurate at a minimum of 500 yards and up, and C) It can kill a man with precision at that range.
There are a lot of rifles that can be scoped and made into fairly accurate shooting pieces. But they arent sniper rifles.
A scoped AR-15 is not a sniper rifle. A scoped SKS is not a sniper rifle. A scoped SAR-1 is most definitely not a sniper rifle.
A scoped M1 could be one, a scoped Remington 700 could be one (if it was chambered in .308 or .30-06), and a scoped FN FAL could certainly be one.
I love my SAR-1, but you've got to know basic physics.
No matter how proud you are of a rifle, how much you like a rifle, or what someone has told you about what it can do, that doesnt make it a sniper rifle.