Thread: A question for the doubters

I just got off phone to my elderly Dad. He had a .22savage highpower( think I have name right way around now) very accurate he said,could head shoot pigeons ( they were legitimate bush tucker until about 45 years ago) I mentioned that I now can load my .223 to be almost identical to the old round. He retold me how he had shot a red stag at 650yards all those years ago..... Pre rangefinder....he went back and did triangulation thing to work out the range as knew it was a loooong way. So even given error in measuring and stretching of time it was still a very long shot for a blunt 70grn soft cup n core projectiles speeding along at previously unheard of speed of 2800fps. The other interesting titbit of info about that rifle is there were two with same serial number in registry...caused him some grief...I'm 52 and that rifle was long gone before I was around.