Thread: Starts with F and rhymes with grinch

Originally Posted by RUMPY

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.

Not when the mindset is imbeded in your skull. LOL. As Charlie Janes would say anout the 270 ..ka flaming boom. Charlie when shooting now uses a Tikka 243.

Had a similar intro to centre fires. At 16 with only shooting with 22 pea rifle, father presents me with a BSA Majestic Feather weight in 3006
and a sock full of 180gr round nose bombs.
Laying prone at the range I squeeze off, (read jerk) and send one down wind.
Should’ve held it tighter! Me ears were ringing, me eyes were filling with blood and tears from the old”weatherby eyebrow”,
and one pair of undies were well past their use by date
Never did develop a flinch, more like a lurch, but did manage to control it after about too many years.
Welcome to centre fires young fella!
Cheers MG

Originally Posted by Muttonguts

Had a similar intro to centre fires. At 16 with only shooting with 22 pea rifle, father presents me with a BSA Majestic Feather weight in 3006
and a sock full of 180gr round nose bombs.
Laying prone at the range I squeeze off, (read jerk) and send one down wind.
Should’ve held it tighter! Me ears were ringing, me eyes were filling with blood and tears from the old”weatherby eyebrow”,
and one pair of undies were well past their use by date
Never did develop a flinch, more like a lurch, but did manage to control it after about too many years.
Welcome to centre fires young fella!
Cheers MG

had almost the exact same experience not quite as bad as it was a 308 180gr round nose did kill stuff good but took a while to get rid of the flinch.

Originally Posted by Muttonguts

Had a similar intro to centre fires. At 16 with only shooting with 22 pea rifle, father presents me with a BSA Majestic Feather weight in 3006
and a sock full of 180gr round nose bombs.
Laying prone at the range I squeeze off, (read jerk) and send one down wind.
Should’ve held it tighter! Me ears were ringing, me eyes were filling with blood and tears from the old”weatherby eyebrow”,
and one pair of undies were well past their use by date
Never did develop a flinch, more like a lurch, but did manage to control it after about too many years.
Welcome to centre fires young fella!
Cheers MG

yes as a young 16 year old Gisborne Full bore club - club 303 SMLE with Parker hale target sights and original brass butt plate ( well I think they brass damn solid metal anyway ) 10 rounds and two sighters =sore 16 year old shoulder