Trigger time
I got quite a bit of trigger time today. I have a friend who has terminal cancer and a recent inheritance of some substance. Among other things he has purchased to play with are some new rifles. Having just had another IV port placed he is restricted concerning recoil. He wanted some of his new rifles lined up and some old ones checked. What's a friend to do, considering new ammo and new rifles needed attention, other than donate his time, eye sight and trigger finger. So I loaded up some smoke poles of my own, a table, rest, spotting scope....(you get the picture) and drove out to his farm today.
We lined up a Remington Semi-auto 30-06 with Nikopn scope, a 45-70 Marlin stainless lever action with grey laminated stock and ghost rings sights. Colt AR 15 he has had for decades but needed to be checked out as he hadn't fired it for awhile and his step son has been using it, zeroed the scope and set the green laser to point of impact. Checked zero on a Remington 700 in 22-250, nice rifle, fluted barrel great trigger, he had a Tasco scope on it but it is a high end varmint scope for Tasco. It was one inch high at 100 yards and I shot a 3 shot group you could cover with a dime, we didn't adjust.
I also fine tuned my .375 H&H to some ammo with 285gr Speer bullets and checked a Remington 1100 for function.
In the mean time to take breaks we shot my Remington 552 .22 at a small metal plate target I have. Three swinging plates from half dollar to about tennis ball size. Just running from on end to the other again and again until the rifle was empty. He is weak and somewhat shaky but there is nothing wrong with his eye and trigger finger. I set him up on a rest and he kept them all moving and it was good to see him do it. We shot my 22 hornet at cans on a log at about 75 yards and he did well there too off of a rest. The .22 hornet was the biggest thing he could shoot because of the new port.
We shot for hours, A good day with a good friend.
We lined up a Remington Semi-auto 30-06 with Nikopn scope, a 45-70 Marlin stainless lever action with grey laminated stock and ghost rings sights. Colt AR 15 he has had for decades but needed to be checked out as he hadn't fired it for awhile and his step son has been using it, zeroed the scope and set the green laser to point of impact. Checked zero on a Remington 700 in 22-250, nice rifle, fluted barrel great trigger, he had a Tasco scope on it but it is a high end varmint scope for Tasco. It was one inch high at 100 yards and I shot a 3 shot group you could cover with a dime, we didn't adjust.
I also fine tuned my .375 H&H to some ammo with 285gr Speer bullets and checked a Remington 1100 for function.
In the mean time to take breaks we shot my Remington 552 .22 at a small metal plate target I have. Three swinging plates from half dollar to about tennis ball size. Just running from on end to the other again and again until the rifle was empty. He is weak and somewhat shaky but there is nothing wrong with his eye and trigger finger. I set him up on a rest and he kept them all moving and it was good to see him do it. We shot my 22 hornet at cans on a log at about 75 yards and he did well there too off of a rest. The .22 hornet was the biggest thing he could shoot because of the new port.
We shot for hours, A good day with a good friend.
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