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I don't own any guns (I'm only 14), and I only get the chance to shoot once or twice a year. Having VERY anti-gun parents, that is pretty much all I can do. Oh well, I guess I'll just have to wait another four years .
Good for you. Have you taken Hunter Safety yet? Check with you high school to see where it's offered. Not only will you get it out of the way for hunting, but it will get you some contacts to get into smallbore and maybe some gallery pistol (both with .22LR). Many of these programs have loaner guns you can use. You can stress the structured safety of the programs to your parents and after a couple of years of safe participation and seeing how much it means to you, maybe their attitudes about your owning guns will change. One step at a time.
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Good for you. Have you taken Hunter Safety yet? Check with you high school to see where it's offered. Not only will you get it out of the way for hunting, but it will get you some contacts to get into smallbore and maybe some gallery pistol (both with .22LR). Many of these programs have loaner guns you can use. You can stress the structured safety of the programs to your parents and after a couple of years of safe participation and seeing how much it means to you, maybe their attitudes about your owning guns will change. One step at a time.
I have only really taken a basic 20 min instruction course at the range I was firing. I would really love to take more gun safety courses and get out and shoot more, but my parents don't want me even near the things. They're actually fine with guns in the country and rural areas, however they pretty much think there should be no guns in a city. I live fairly close (within biking distance) to a range, but I can't even convince them to take me there. I guess if I convince them to let me do anything, it will have to be one step at a time.
I guess if I convince them to let me do anything, it will have to be one step at a time.
Yup, but that's okay. If you really want to shoot (and I know all about that) then try the structured and supervised path of Hunter Safety and then Smallbore. Your parents will feel better about the structure and supervision, you will get safety beaten into you until it's second nature, and you will get to shoot a lot.
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Well the scopes are mounted, the guns are zeroed, the ammunition is loaded and chronoed, my downstairs office looks like the quartermaster's back room, and the spaniels look worried. Next Wednesday is the departure date for a late added ten day prairie poodle safari to NoDak and SoDak. The girls will not be going along, but after a long hard winter in the Northwoods, Spring has sprung and it's time to get out.
The .357RemMag 110 grain Blitz loads in my old Thompson/Center Contender with its new twelve inch barrel chronoed out at MV 2026FPS and with iron sights (and my old eyes) group on a 3x5 card out past 75 yards. The .22-250Rem Striker pistol carries on the good work out past 300 yards. .223Rem loads flying 50 grain BlitzKings in my left-handed G3 Tikka "walking around rifle" and the JP/AR with 24"Wilson heavy barrel carry the word out to 400 yards at 3460FPS. The left-handed Remington 700VS in .22-250 spits its message in 55 grain BlitzKings at @ 3750 out to past 500 yards. And the new custom left-handed Remington 700VS in .243AI shoots bugholes beyond that with 70 grain BlitzKings at MV 3815FPS. All are clean and cased. Ammunition, optics, gear, clothing, coolers, VarmintMaster bench for all circumstances, real and imagined are laid out for inspection, contemplation, and packing. Truly an awesome sight for the gun nuts amongst us.
But mostly it's that free roamin' life on the high prairie that's calling to me. Out in counties with the lowest population densities (that's both number of people and cerebral affectation of the electorate ) in the lower 48, the sky is huge, the critters run free and everything seems more vivid and real than in town. Time to saddle up.
Edit: BTE, B2BW, aren't those targets kinda close for Garand work?
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Doing my duty . . . . the way I see it.
"The trouble with most people is not what they don't know, but what they know for certain that isn't true."
Mark Twain
Edit: BTE, B2BW, aren't those targets kinda close for Garand work?
Yeah they are, but I would use 300/600 yard simulated targets to make up for the difference. That range actually did go back 300 yards, but it was too far of a drive for me to get out to the range early enough to use it since it effectively shut down the whole range (trap/skeet, 75 yard range, 100 yard range) for you to shoot at 300 yards.
Besides, that M1 was a bit of a scatter shot. It was a Greek standard grade CMP. The stock was loose, the op rod needed to be hammered out so that it wouldn't scrape, and the latch pin would walk out of position as I fired. Still, at a 100 yards I could put all 8 in the black at rapid fire, about all I expected of it.
That range actually did go back 300 yards, but it was too far of a drive for me to get out to the range early enough to use it since it effectively shut down the whole range (trap/skeet, 75 yard range, 100 yard range) for you to shoot at 300 yards.
I've shot on ranges like that. The Harris, MN range (the only official 1000 yard range in the state) is like that; you have to shut down progressively more ranges to shoot at 600 and then 1000 yards.
Couldn't you tell them to just leave the in between ranges open and you would be REAL careful shooting at 300?
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) in the lower 48, the sky is huge, the critters run free and everything seems more vivid and real than in town. Time to saddle up.
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