The I LOVE THIS GUN Thread

[Fe Man]

Originally Posted by Sniper X

My Erma SR100 in .338 Lapua Mag has been for sale ever since I bought it. I only bought it for an investment because I KNEW it would appreciate greatly. However, I made the mistake of actually setting it up and shooting it.....damn, now I still have to sell it but it is the best most accurate rifle to long crazy ranges that I have ever shot and I have shot a lot of long range rifles. It is boringly easy to hit man sized targets out to 1200m plus. I am selling it next year for a down payment on my new house I am having built.

Luckily I had a friend that had a REAL hard-on for my TRG 42 .338 Lapua. The gun, custom case, a coupla' hunnerd rounds of ammo and the Schmidt and Bender scope is out of the range of most folks. I'm thankful I could sell it.

[Mr Natural]

For lack of a better place to put this:

Will a PPK/s magazine fit and work in an older PPK, without consideration to length?

[davsato]

Originally Posted by Sniper X

Col. Cooper and a few other instructors from Gunsite were manning the booth at the shot show the first year the Scout rifle came out. Many had been fondling it and making good comments about they way it pointed, and felt. At some point, and this is still up to speculation as to why this was done, someone drew the fully loaded magazine fromt he stock which had been left in there by neglect, and inserted it in the weapon. Apparently either an instructor worked the action without checking it or a casual person at the booth did and someone pulled the trigger. It was friggin loud in there and the bullet went thru the ceiling, and lodged in the ceiling of the 2nd floor above the convention center. It is still under debate when this comes up whether someone did this on purpose when they noticed the loaded mag in the stock, or if it was all just a mistake. My question is how would someone not notice a loaded mag and slip it in a rifle in a convention center? I think they did it intentionally so this might happen. I heard it was Col. Cooper who pulled the trigger but since I didn't see who did it I am not sure.

oops indeed, thats a pretty wild chain of mistakes.
i wont ask why an experienced man would handle a weapon and not ensure it was safe first, as he'd probably been doing it a thousand times that day, but how many dickheads had looked and noticed a loaded mag stored and not said anything, what sort of a total cock would load the rifle and walk away and what were live rounds doing in the conference hall anyway?

[Sniper X]

Originally Posted by davsato

oops indeed, thats a pretty wild chain of mistakes.
i wont ask why an experienced man would handle a weapon and not ensure it was safe first, as he'd probably been doing it a thousand times that day, but how many dickheads had looked and noticed a loaded mag stored and not said anything, what sort of a total cock would load the rifle and walk away and what were live rounds doing in the conference hall anyway?

If it had been recently, the dousche would have been recording it on a phone for later posting on facebook. Not caring at all about someone getting killed in the process.

[mbabc]

Originally Posted by EvilGenius

Mini-14 I believe? Anymore info on the stock?

[EvilGenius]

Originally Posted by mbabc

Mini-14 I believe? Anymore info on the stock?

Yup!

It's got a regular polymer stock.

Here's the thread.

[lewismedlock]

Originally Posted by Sniper X

Col. Cooper and a few other instructors from Gunsite were manning the booth at the shot show the first year the Scout rifle came out. Many had been fondling it and making good comments about they way it pointed, and felt. At some point, and this is still up to speculation as to why this was done, someone drew the fully loaded magazine fromt he stock which had been left in there by neglect, and inserted it in the weapon. Apparently either an instructor worked the action without checking it or a casual person at the booth did and someone pulled the trigger. It was friggin loud in there and the bullet went thru the ceiling, and lodged in the ceiling of the 2nd floor above the convention center. It is still under debate when this comes up whether someone did this on purpose when they noticed the loaded mag in the stock, or if it was all just a mistake. My question is how would someone not notice a loaded mag and slip it in a rifle in a convention center? I think they did it intentionally so this might happen. I heard it was Col. Cooper who pulled the trigger but since I didn't see who did it I am not sure.

Not a lot of cold, hard, facts there

[El Guero]

Originally Posted by Sniper X

I heard it was Col. Cooper who pulled the trigger but since I didn't see who did it I am not sure.

Was Col. Cooper one of those "As I say, not as I do" kinda guys?

[vspeed]

Shot my Marlin 1894 for the first time the other day. After a couple of test shots I shot these two 5-shot groups from a benchrest. 25 yards, handloaded 250 gr Hornady XTP bullets, Universal powder.



The 250 gr XTP's worked nicely. I also had some handloaded 230 gr lead ammo and some 225 gr lead factory loaded ammo. Neither of those loads would cycle through the gun very well so I didn't shoot them. When I got home I examined those bullets and it turned out they were hanging up on the case mouth when they entered the chamber. I ran all of them through a Lee factory crimp die to put a little more crimp on them and now they cycle perfectly in the gun.

[Sniper X]

Originally Posted by lewismedlock

Not a lot of cold, hard, facts there

Like what, a dead body? I was standing about ten feet away when it happened, however, I don't know who pulled the trigger although, I did see who was holding the weapon a second after it went off........

[Sniper X]

Originally Posted by El Guero

Was Col. Cooper one of those "As I say, not as I do" kinda guys?

No, but near the end of his life he made many famous Gunsite range mistakes. I was at a class when he swept the class with the muzzle of a loaded 1911 three times in a row. Everyone ducked. I had to destroy the tape in the camera we were shooting the class with.

[EvilGenius]

Originally Posted by Sniper X

No, but near the end of his life he made many famous Gunsite range mistakes. I was at a class when he swept the class with the muzzle of a loaded 1911 three times in a row. Everyone ducked. I had to destroy the tape in the camera we were shooting the class with.

That's a shame. I suppose it's a lot like old people driving.

Want us to put you down when you start gettin senile?

[Rusty Rocket]

Originally Posted by EvilGenius

Want us to put you down when you start gettin senile?

Oh no, I'd probably already be dead.

[Jeffy]

My shoulder hurts just watching it.

[EvilGenius]

Bout time someone made a video of one of those!