superior
03-24-2009, 04:34 AM
I went pinking with my sister's family yesterday and got a chance to amaze them with my boolits. My brother in law had a very accurate chicom sks, his son had a Yugo sks purchased the day before at a gun show for $309, and I brought my little sks paratrooper. As I watched them plink and shoot at paper targets about 30 yards away, I began to grin. I noticed they were grouping about 5 inches at 30 yards lol. They were firing offhand and they were NOT experienced shooters at all.
They were shooting with various military j-words and thought their rifles were awesome. That's when I pulled out my short sks and 5 rounds of Lee CTL-312-160-2r's, sitting on 14.8 grains of Alliant2400 in IMI cases with winchester primers. As they watched me step off about 65 yards to a stump down the logging trail, I heard my nephew say," what's Uncle Jim doing?". I thumbtacked a 6x6 napkin to the stump and walked back to where they were standing. They looked at me in disbelief. 5 shots later, there were 5 holes in the napkin and then they all wanted to try my ammo! They are now believers and can't wait to get started reloading and casting. I've told them about the accuracy potential with cb's but they never took me seriously until NOW! Has anyone esle had an experience like this? It sure was cool! Later, I showed them how to completely disassemble their rifles to clean the corrosive primer residue from their crappy ammo. They can't wait to go shooting again now as a family and I feel that I've enriched our lives and helped them find a fun sport the whole family can enjoy. Next time , they say they will get serious and have more fun by playing target games for competition. I just had to share this with you guys because it really made me feel good inside. As a bonus,
I set up a water-filled milk jug at 200 yards and let my youngest nephew fire at it with my bull-barrelled .223 Savage varmint rig, fired from the hood of my truck, sitting on a Harris bi-pod. ( j-word handloaded Nosler 50gr ballistic tip). We all focused our eyes on the distant milkjug and watched it literally explode, shooting water about 10 feet in every direction. Frankly, they didn't realize that a shot like that was possible but I assured them that the shot could be made at almost twice that distance. They were cheering and clapping at the shot and now my nephew says he wants to be a sniper for the secret service! Looks like I started something!
They were shooting with various military j-words and thought their rifles were awesome. That's when I pulled out my short sks and 5 rounds of Lee CTL-312-160-2r's, sitting on 14.8 grains of Alliant2400 in IMI cases with winchester primers. As they watched me step off about 65 yards to a stump down the logging trail, I heard my nephew say," what's Uncle Jim doing?". I thumbtacked a 6x6 napkin to the stump and walked back to where they were standing. They looked at me in disbelief. 5 shots later, there were 5 holes in the napkin and then they all wanted to try my ammo! They are now believers and can't wait to get started reloading and casting. I've told them about the accuracy potential with cb's but they never took me seriously until NOW! Has anyone esle had an experience like this? It sure was cool! Later, I showed them how to completely disassemble their rifles to clean the corrosive primer residue from their crappy ammo. They can't wait to go shooting again now as a family and I feel that I've enriched our lives and helped them find a fun sport the whole family can enjoy. Next time , they say they will get serious and have more fun by playing target games for competition. I just had to share this with you guys because it really made me feel good inside. As a bonus,
I set up a water-filled milk jug at 200 yards and let my youngest nephew fire at it with my bull-barrelled .223 Savage varmint rig, fired from the hood of my truck, sitting on a Harris bi-pod. ( j-word handloaded Nosler 50gr ballistic tip). We all focused our eyes on the distant milkjug and watched it literally explode, shooting water about 10 feet in every direction. Frankly, they didn't realize that a shot like that was possible but I assured them that the shot could be made at almost twice that distance. They were cheering and clapping at the shot and now my nephew says he wants to be a sniper for the secret service! Looks like I started something!