Thread: Rifle and Optics Snobs

Originally Posted by Jhon

All but 2 of my rifles are second hand wood and blue. Most well under a grand. Two new ones, one was an $850 Rossi, the other a $950 Ruger..but I love seeing and handling new kit and if buying it floats someone's boat then fine.

One of the funniest things I've encountered was when shooting a NZDA silhouette match for the first time, with my old Interarms 308 and cast loads lol, the little guy next to me had a huge "precision" rifle in some exotic calibre with 3+k of optics on top, a total cost he told me around of around 8 grand as he looked pityingly at my old crapper with its Nikko Stirling on top. Then he found out, his first time also at silhouette, that he had to shoot off-hand. And yup, after a couple of shots, he just could not manage to hold the rifle up to acquire the target long enough to take the shot. I didn't do much good with my casts after we got past 100m but I was tfe one still wearing the grin at the end.

Classic. I enjoy these stories. Here's one; had a couple of guys on the farm looking for rabbits, both with far better quality gear than I had. They looked at my 10/22 with it's half front sight left and half rear sight and questioned my abilty to hit anything at all. We saw three hares just up ahead, "right you guys, I'll take the one in the middle, you guys hit those on the outside". I let them shoot first, they both took ages to line up for 'pretty' shots with their good scopes, both missed and I knocked over 2 of the hares on the run (with only half a rear sight) before they got a second shot off. I put a trs25 on after that, but it was amazing how accurate you can be even with broken iron sights. The ability to keep on pulling the trigger until the target is down helps too.