243 or ? follow up...
Djay
After reading through all of your posts and pouring over online reviews of
various hunting rifles/calibers etc, I ended up going rather inexpensively
with the Marlin Xl-7 chambered in a 270. It came in last Thursday and
California's 10 day waiting list has me chomping at the bit. Fortunately
the gun club allows me to shoot it while it's in the 10 day wait period - as
long as I don't take it off premises. Sweet!
So today I went to the range with the Leupold MKII 3-9 Variable scope and
all my cleaning gear and went to work on the greasy beauty. Cleaned it
inside and out and mounted the scope.
I read plenty about "getting it on paper" at 25 yards and then progressing
down range until the 100 yard target was all dialed in. I read plenty about
aligning with bore scopes etc. I read plenty about the "old fashioned way
vice the new fangled way". Turns out I didn't have a bore scope or a lot of
time today.
After said cleaning and marrying of said scope to said XL-7, I hauled a
paper target down range to the 100 yards target line and taped it up - level
of course. Then, with the gun in a bench rest, I pulled out the bolt from
the receiver and eyeballed the target through the bore. Mounted the scope
and put it on max magnification with a comfortable eye relief. Dialed in
the up/down and windage for bull's-eye scope while bull's-eye through the
bore - or so I thought.
I loaded a 150 grain Winchester cartridge and steadied the crosshairs on the
bull. Squeeze and BLAM! Mind you I haven't hunted or shot a larger caliber
gun for over 20 years. Good thing I had in my earplugs!
Well I saw the puff of dust come up behind the target and of course I don't
have a spotting scope and now I know how handy they would be. I safed the
gun and ejected the cartridge then walked down and saw I was off the paper
by about 2 inches to the right and down 6 inches. I was scratching my head
at that one. Are my eyes that bad? Is it that hard?
Feeling not so good about myself, I went back and pulled out the bolt and
re-spotted everything. Apparently I wasn't so dead-eye between the
eyeballed bore sighting and the scope sighting. It was plain to me that the
bullet went right where it did - right where it was aimed. So I re-adjusted
the scope - clicking until everything looked good again. And re-chambered
and reshot. This time I was on the paper just one inch to the right but 3
inches low.
I was pressed for time - had to get back to work and lunch hour and ½ was
over! Ha ha. So just to make sure it wasn't a fluke I chambered and fired
round 3. And this one was 1 ¼ inches to the right of where the second shot
landed - both on paper and both near each other! I was very happy with
those results and have some additional dialing in to do - however I was
pleased to have done that with just 3 rounds.
Cleaned it up and removed the scope and returned it to the club manager. it's
mine Sunday, Father's day! I'll put several more rounds through it then and
see if I can bring in tight groups exactly on target (which is about 2"
above the bull at 100 yards from what I've read).
Thanks again for your guidance - I'm very satisfied.
Djay
WangoTango
@WILD.NET says...
> 10 day wait period
>
On a long gun???
Jeez, I left Kookyfornia in 1982 and miss it less each time I hear this
bull.
They hold off on giving the boys their balls until their 18, or do they
just keep them in state custody for life?
If not, that's next.
Djay
news:MPG.24a5729d6...@newsgroups.bellsouth.net...
Yep - another way to tax us law abiding citizens. They get their DROS fee
and get me in their "bad boy" database for owning a gun. A long gun.
Sacramento knuckleheads have a law on the books to fingerprint me - cause I
exercise my 2nd amendment rights.
One day in the not-so-far future Taxmefornia will be in my rear view mirror.
Till then, I'll keep shooting and keeping the lefties that surround me
wondering!
Djay
Steve
news:MPG.24a5729d6...@newsgroups.bellsouth.net...
| In article <h1esl4$2s6n$1...@adenine.netfront.net>, Areyoukiddingme?
| @WILD.NET says...
| > 10 day wait period
| >
| On a long gun???
| Jeez, I left Kookyfornia in 1982 and miss it less each time I hear
this
| bull.
| They hold off on giving the boys their balls until their 18, or do
they
| just keep them in state custody for life?
| If not, that's next.
Come on fellows... join me in Texas!
We have gun shows in Houston and Dallas three or four times a year
(until One Big Ass Mistake America is successful in reinstating the
Clinton gun ban). Walk in to the gun show with American dollars, see
a weapon you like, fill out the F.B.I. instant check form, dealer
calls the F.B.I. and gets you approved, you walk out with your weapon.
Texas does not have state income tax.
Texas is the most business friendly state in the union.
Our governor, Rick Perry, has mentioned seceding from the union if the
federal government doesn't change their ways.
We have hunting, fishing, camping, hiking, beautiful state parks and
our economy is growing during this recession.
--
Steve Spence
AMSOIL - The "Once A Year" Oil Change
URL: http://synthetic-oil-tech.com/1690163
Email: ams...@charter.net
WangoTango
@WILD.NET says...
> "WangoTango" <asga...@MINDSPRING.COM> wrote in message
> news:MPG.24a5729d6...@newsgroups.bellsouth.net...
> > In article <h1esl4$2s6n$1...@adenine.netfront.net>, Areyoukiddingme?
> > @WILD.NET says...
> >> 10 day wait period
> >>
> > On a long gun???
> > Jeez, I left Kookyfornia in 1982 and miss it less each time I hear this
> > bull.
> > They hold off on giving the boys their balls until their 18, or do they
> > just keep them in state custody for life?
> > If not, that's next.
>
> and get me in their "bad boy" database for owning a gun. A long gun.
>
> Sacramento knuckleheads have a law on the books to fingerprint me - cause I
> exercise my 2nd amendment rights.
>
> One day in the not-so-far future Taxmefornia will be in my rear view mirror.
>
> Till then, I'll keep shooting and keeping the lefties that surround me
> wondering!
>
> Djay
>
They laugh at my GA accent, I laugh at their sales tax, gun laws, crime
rate, deficit, and state taxes.
My dad was bitching about the local unemployment rate being OVER 11%.
Mean while, my business is having a record year and we are hiring
people.
Brian G
> "WangoTango" <asgar...@MINDSPRING.COM> wrote in message
>
> news:MPG.24a5729d6...@newsgroups.bellsouth.net...
> | In article <h1esl4$2s6...@adenine.netfront.net>, Areyoukiddingme?
> | @WILD.NET says...
> | > 10 day wait period
> | >
> | On a long gun???
> | Jeez, I left Kookyfornia in 1982 and miss it less each time I hear
> this
> | bull.
> | They hold off on giving the boys their balls until their 18, or do
> they
> | just keep them in state custody for life?
> | If not, that's next.
>
>
> We have gun shows in Houston and Dallas three or four times a year
> (until One Big Ass Mistake America is successful in reinstating the
> Clinton gun ban). Walk in to the gun show with American dollars, see
> a weapon you like, fill out the F.B.I. instant check form, dealer
> calls the F.B.I. and gets you approved, you walk out with your weapon.
>
> Texas does not have state income tax.
> Texas is the most business friendly state in the union.
> federal government doesn't change their ways.
>
> We have hunting, fishing, camping, hiking, beautiful state parks and
> our economy is growing during this recession.
>
> --
> Steve Spence
> AMSOIL - The "Once A Year" Oil Change
> URL:http://synthetic-oil-tech.com/1690163
Indiana has you beat. At least from the gun show aspect. They don't
even have to do a background check. You had them money, they hand you
the gun. No paperwork is exchanged unless it is a regular gun store
selling guns there.
Coming from the second worst communist state in the union (Illinois),
it blew my mind but made me like this backwater state a little more.
Of course they aren't doing so well with the recession.
Brian Goralczyk