Kee-kee-kee-RIST it's cold up here! Thank God for Louis Chevrolet and his wonderful van heater, and also for Mr. Heater and his wonderful Big Buddy heater last night. Got up just after dawn this morning with the radio blaring rain, then rain and snow in the forecast. The dishwater in the dishpan was frozen over. The water jugs were frozen (except for the one Aaron and I put into the camper).
The rifle was HOT, though. When you can take a .243 Winchester M70 hunting rifle, with an ordinary scope (Nikon ProStaff) on it, with ordinary hunting ammo (Federal Fusion 95-grain SPBT) and can put down a palm-sized group at 380 yards, then move out to 500 and kill the target on the second shot, then repeat, you have ALMOST arrived.
The purists will tell you to stay home from Boomershoot with this sort of "ordinary deer rifle", and hunting ammo, but don't listen to them, you can do what your mind tells you to do with such a rifle.
Gene Econ says it is so in his class, and it is so.
Later.
Amen to that! My first time shooting a rifle was at Gene's clinic in 2005, and with a .308 Sako sporter I was able to put nine shots in a 7" boomer (didn't explode due to faulty mix that year, but I got to keep the target!)
Scope, on Gene's recommendation, was a mid-priced Burris Signature 8-32x44 with vanilla fine plex reticle.
Of course, hitting boomers is tougher with a hunting rifle than with a precision instrument, but as you and I've both experienced, it's very do-able.
Posted by: Davidwhitewolf | May 01, 2009 at 16:43