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A fun day at the Range--Took a new shooter!
Mercury
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Went to the Tucson Rifle Club Range today, about 40 miles outside of Tucson. Had a BLAST!
I took my friend who has never shot anything more than a pellet rifle, and he had fun too! He is interested in shooting now (a little bit!) so maybe I'll have a "convert".
Finally got my Moisin-Nagant sighted in! So now instead of shooting 8" to the left at 50 yards, it is fairly decent at 100 yards! I shot about a 6" group (I know, I know, that isn't great!) at 100 yards, but I could NOT see much of the target! The iron front sight pretty much obliterated the entire target.
I know it isn't that great of a group, but I could have killed a deer with it, or whatever. Plus, I didn't have a decent rest....just an ammo can. I read (somewhere) online that the old milsurp rifles were supposed to shoot about 6" groups at 100 yards. Thats just about exactly what mine did.
I think I'm getting OLD (will be 35 in 11 days) but I could barely see the dang target at 100 yards! I definately could use a scope on that rifle, those iron sites are tough!
Overall, for the $50 I spent on the rifle, its been well worth it. I hope to get a nice Bushmaster .223 soon.......should be able to shoot better, and with a nice scope.
How far can most people shoot "decently" with just iron sights? 100 yards is about my limit, I'd guess (never shot much over that with them), but I did shoot well enough to whack someone, if I had to, as they did back then in the war.
Merc
NO! You may not have my guns! Now go crawl back into your hole!
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"Tolerating things you may not necessarily like is part of being free" - Larry Flynt
Edited by - Mercury on 09/27/2002 03:10:26
I took my friend who has never shot anything more than a pellet rifle, and he had fun too! He is interested in shooting now (a little bit!) so maybe I'll have a "convert".
Finally got my Moisin-Nagant sighted in! So now instead of shooting 8" to the left at 50 yards, it is fairly decent at 100 yards! I shot about a 6" group (I know, I know, that isn't great!) at 100 yards, but I could NOT see much of the target! The iron front sight pretty much obliterated the entire target.
I know it isn't that great of a group, but I could have killed a deer with it, or whatever. Plus, I didn't have a decent rest....just an ammo can. I read (somewhere) online that the old milsurp rifles were supposed to shoot about 6" groups at 100 yards. Thats just about exactly what mine did.
I think I'm getting OLD (will be 35 in 11 days) but I could barely see the dang target at 100 yards! I definately could use a scope on that rifle, those iron sites are tough!
Overall, for the $50 I spent on the rifle, its been well worth it. I hope to get a nice Bushmaster .223 soon.......should be able to shoot better, and with a nice scope.
How far can most people shoot "decently" with just iron sights? 100 yards is about my limit, I'd guess (never shot much over that with them), but I did shoot well enough to whack someone, if I had to, as they did back then in the war.
Merc
NO! You may not have my guns! Now go crawl back into your hole!
****************************************
"Tolerating things you may not necessarily like is part of being free" - Larry Flynt
Edited by - Mercury on 09/27/2002 03:10:26