Thread: Starts with F and rhymes with grinch

As a young 19 yo I was gifted a brand new ruger 270w as a bonus while working in the USA. Boss gave me a box of 50 handloads and said head down to the range and get it sighted in.
Not knowing about running in a barrel in any form I started firing rounds at the paper. The more I fired and adjusted scope the bigger the spread of bullets became.
After not achieving any sort of grouping I sheepishly returned to the homestead where the boss was all excited to see my results and greeted me with a big "How'd you get on".
I showed him my A4 paper riddled with holes and the remaining 12 rounds in the box I don't think I even said anything to be honest.
The WTF??? look on his face was something I remember to this day.
38 rounds, a pretty sore and bruised shoulder and a still unsighted rifle was the result of of flyn that day.

Took me a bit to get out of the bad habits. I was lucky to be able to fire 5 shots of the bosses 338WinMag which enabled me to gain the mindset that the 270 isn't that bad.
Tell yourself that the rifle won't hurt you, line up on your target and gently squeeze until the trigger lets go. It's not that hard really. Just get past the fearfull mindset.