My Life as a Wus, or It's He!! Getting Old

[KCSO]

Deer season is coming up and due to a busy summer I had not picked up my trysty Sharps for over a year. I took the gun and an ammo box to the range to verify the hunting sights. While shoooting I carried the rifle back and forth from the 100 yards line and boy di that gun get heavy! The rifle is a Pedersoli Sharps copy in the target version with the pistol grip stock and shootgun butt and was and is very comfortable to shoot. In checking my nootes I see that in 1984 i determined that my ideal weight of rifle for offhand work was 11 Pounds. Now I have an 11 1/2 pound Sharps that i darn near can't carry! What happened!, maybe that 11 was in metric somethings? This gun will sit in the stand this year but the 8 /12 pund 38-55 will be the gun I carry, I'll bet. Sad thing is my Hawken gun is 10.5 and it's starting to feel pretty hefty too.

[45 2.1]

Ya gotta be tough to get old, and the alternative isn't very acceptable either. I like about 6 lbs. myself.

[felix]

Yeah, my brother's 243 weighs around 6 pounds. Kimber 84M feather weight? It feels like a good narrow levergun without sights, even with its 3-10X scope. Well designed walking gun. The only problem is that it kicks way too much for a 243 in that it is loaded with 100 grainer Core-Lokts at 3000 at his request. ... felix

[August]

This is why the god of thundersticks hath given us fiberglass, aluminum, fluting, and titanium.

Short, light, fast, comfortable.

[13Echo]

"This is why the god of thundersticks hath given us fiberglass, aluminum, fluting, and titanium.

Short, light, fast, comfortable. "

You forgot to mention, "and plug ugly!"

Life's too short to shoot an ugly gun.

Jerry Liles

[Just Duke]

That's a light gun for me. M-14 and scope on a wood stock loaded runs almost 15 lbs.

[TCLouis]

BUT

I bet several of us found guns lighter to carry, heck even hold, and shoot 15 years or so ago.

I think my new hunting rule may be, that they may have to have spots to get shot if gravity continues to increase every year.

I can even still remember when my hair was the same color as "Duke Nukem's".

[hydraulic]

KCSO: The reason I sold you that Sharps is because it was too heavy for me to carry around. It shoots well, though.