Shooting sports

Has anyone had or have experience using a variety of firearms in connection the shooting sports? Namely long range rifle, and skeet and trap.

2 Comments

O-O-O-O-ccchhhhhhh!!!!

by Bevof NC - 2013-07-14 04:07:24

That would hurt! Bev

That only hurts...

by donr - 2013-07-14 06:07:51

...if you put the wrong end of the Firearm against your shoulder.

For starters, don't put the butt against the shoulder where the PM is located. That obviously will hurt - but just a little less than getting the weapon reversed,

Second, IF you have a highly sensitive RR function, even firing from the other side could set your PM off on a royal romp as far as heart rate is concerned.

Skeet & Trap are another issue - they require a 12 or 16 gage gun. You also fire a LOT of rounds in a session. Even with good padding & a soft recoil pad on the jacket, your torso is going to get a lot of shock applied to it. IF your PM has been there for a couple months, no problem.

You used the magic words - "Long Range Rifle." To me that means .30-06 or larger caliber. My experience launching many bullets from an M-1 Garand on the KD Range is that the torso takes a real beating from that caliber or greater.

For hunting in the US, for Deer I have traded the .30-06 for a .257 Roberts. Recoil is almost non-existent & I have gotten clean, nearly instantaneous kills w/ it. Short of elk, moose & bear, that caliber is adequate. If you are a relative of Davey Crockett, you can use the .257 on the bigger stuff where legal - all you have to do is be good enough to get a good neck shot.

For birds - ducks, etc, I've restricted it to 20 gage. Requires good marksmanship, but it works. I leave the high fliers for my Son, who uses a cannon-like Browning w/ a barrel long enough to reach up & touch them. The 20 works very nicely at 20 - 30 yds.

Don

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