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Not a bad group at all for 100 ft, standing, and an unfamiliar weapon. .22's are fun to shoot. How did your M60 group?
-------------------- Eric Elmgren ericsignguy@comcast.net A & E Graphic Signs Park Ridge, IL "The future isn't what it used to be" -Yogi Berra Posts: 192 | From: PARK RIDGE, ILLINOIS | Registered: Aug 2009
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Oops, .223. Thought it was a rimfire clone.
-------------------- Eric Elmgren ericsignguy@comcast.net A & E Graphic Signs Park Ridge, IL "The future isn't what it used to be" -Yogi Berra Posts: 192 | From: PARK RIDGE, ILLINOIS | Registered: Aug 2009
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NO it's a Rimfire Clone. I like to Sport shoot I'm not a hunter (Live and let live)and with a .22 we can do it all day without breaking the bank.. I have Ruger .357 Revolver for Home defense, Rest are .22..
The M60 was not a weapon for grouping. 2 position Selector switch.. (Safe and Spray and Pray) It was for Mowing the lawn. Mounted on a Tripod I was able to cut down trees though. (Multi-Purpose weapon)
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I happen to have a 357 for the same purpose. Something I dont understand: How can a .22 be a combat weapon?
-------------------- dennis kiernan independent artist san francisco, calif, usa Posts: 907 | From: san francisco, ca usa | Registered: Feb 2010
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Funny story about guns -- when my daughter was about ten and was visiting me, we were out one day and I dropped into a gun shop with her. She of course had already been brainwashed at school that guns were awful things. I picked up a silver .45 pistol and she said "What are you doing?" I said I was just looking and asked her if she wanted to hold it. She did, rather apprehensively, and then after a few seconds said, "Hmmm. Pretty cool."
-------------------- dennis kiernan independent artist san francisco, calif, usa Posts: 907 | From: san francisco, ca usa | Registered: Feb 2010
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Si, what do you do, home-school them? Or maybe my perspective is at fault, since I live in San Francisco.
My six-yr-old granddaughter told me that she wd never go near someone she saw smoking on the sidewalk because she "didnt want to get sick and maybe even DIE!" That's actually what they're teaching them from an early age.
-------------------- dennis kiernan independent artist san francisco, calif, usa Posts: 907 | From: san francisco, ca usa | Registered: Feb 2010
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Dennis ... my kids grew up before much of this anti gun foolishness started. Plus ... they started shooting when they reached the ripe old age of 10.
They were taught that there is a big difference between toy guns and real guns ... especially when my house looks more like a gun store!
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"Nothing like the smell of Gunpowder on hot summer day by the river."
Bill You just can't own enough firearms. I have hand guns, long guns of all caliber, never know when you may have to reach out and touch someone!
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I just got my license to carry permit a couple of weeks ago. I hike in the woods up in the mountains for about 3 hours each time, & there are quite a few bears up there. Not to mention other things, like fishers, coyotes (which me & my choc. lab heard yipping the other evening up there), rabid things too.
Now I have bear spray, a bear bell, & I have been carrying my dad's 38 special with some hollow points, until I get my own gun. My husband has a 357 but it weighs a ton, along with my backpack & water I carry.
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(A Gun Story)...one of my son's is a big hunter and as a kid I was raised to hunt and killed my fair share of critters...so I'm not an anti-gun fanatic...I had my own 4x10 shotgun, 22 rifle, and trusty Daisy BB gun for play...but I don't shoot or own a gun anymore...I must have been only 10 or 11 when I gave it up...I'm 61 now but have a distinct memory of my last kill...one day I made a miraculous shot dropping a large woodpecker at a great distance...it was a long shot so I took a bead on the bird and raised the barrel up 6 to 8" and pulled the trigger...I could see the bb's slow projectory as it left the barrel and descended onto the head of the unsuspecting bird who had been devouring ants in the distant corner of our backyard...examining my kill...I spread it's wings displaying beautiful reds, yellows, tans, and golds...it was the most beautiful bird I had ever seen...today I would decribe the yellow-shafted flicker...or yellow hammer...as one of the more handsome...but it made an amazing impact on me as a child that remains even to this day...the next Christmas would define the divergent paths my brother and I would take...I recieved a pair of binoculars, an Audubon bird book, and a fuzzy orange and white kitten...my brother recieved a shotgun and box of shells...it was apparnet we both were interested in nature...but obviously our intent and future interaction with it were to take different paths.
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That's a cool little gun. I have a marlin that is a M1 carbine replica. 22s are cheap fun, I have other weapons too but haven't been shooting for a few years.
That was a good story Rusty, I have considered deer hunting with my Canon 50D.
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