You gotta remember that those M1 Garands had ZERO recoil padding.. just a metal butt-plate.
Try shooting 25 or 30 3-1/2" 12-guage turkey shells! You will definately feel that in the morning!
You gotta remember that those M1 Garands had ZERO recoil padding.. just a metal butt-plate.
Try shooting 25 or 30 3-1/2" 12-guage turkey shells! You will definately feel that in the morning!
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In a word... yes. I use the push pull method for shooting my 870 and find it works rather well. But target loads shouldn't hurt unless you don't have the butt in your shoulder. For turkey loads not to hurt you pretty much need to be shooting a turkey, those that hunt know what I mean.
"We're at NOW now... everything that's hapening now... is happening NOW!"
~ Col. Sanders ~
"I guess all we need to do now is give a shit what you think. I'll work on that."
~ ashauler ~
Morphed - I recently bought a new suit for this Rem 700BDL .243 Varmint Special. Made from '72 until '87 it is a super accurate, very low recoil, (but heavy) rifle. Stocky's thumbhole stock, Jewell trigger, Douglas barrel. Easy under 1 moa every group.
I once made the mistake of resting the butt of my Mosin against my collar bone. THAT hurt.
sorry to jump into the conversation really late here, was just reading through the thread, the thing that keeps the recoil down on the M1 Garand is the sheer weight of the thing, it's downright heavy, I put the 8 rounds through it without much of a problem.
And yes 3-1/2 inch turkey loads are mean, especially in a non-gas operated gun. ick. Tell ya what though, if you wanna kill a turkey, a 3-1/2 inch load with an extra full choke is just wicked. You may was well be shooting a really large single projectile.
I'll have to get a picture up of my sks, absolutely love takin' that gun out for a good day of just blasting stuff. Virtually no recoil with decent range and decent knockdown power. Finding 7.62x39 ammo is all but impossible these days though.
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My two handguns. My Colt New Frontier .22mag for target and rodents, and my CZ75.
I also have a few shotguns for bird hunting, and a couple of bows for deer.
Hey Barry,
Which gun are you holding in this photo?
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Same one as in this pic.
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I have a small collection of guns. When I turned 21 I bought a Beretta U22 Neos .22 LR pistol. It was a nice little gun that I put a RedDot scope on. Lots of fun. Then school got tough and I stopped going to the range. About a year ago I went to a gun raffle and won a Taurus PT1911 .45 ACP pistol. That ignited my love for guns once again. Since then I have added the following to my collection.
CZ P-01 9mm
Remington 700 SPS Tactical .308 w/ Bushnell 3200 Elite Tactical scope
Remington 870 Tactical 12-gauge (plan on getting a skeet barrel for it someday)
Ruger 10/22 that I modified quite a bit
Del-ton AR-15
The AR-15 is still on order. I have the lower receiver and am waiting on the upper and lower kit. It's supposedly coming this week or the next.
I really enjoy shooting targets. I'm fairly lucky because I have a lot of places to go shooting. My father's cousin has an offical ATA trap range on his property that we can shoot clay pigeons whenever we want. There is a state owned shooting range about 10 minutes from where I live. And my friend's dad is a retired police officer that teaches a self-defense course. He has given my friend and I some personal lesson at the indoor range where the cops go to train and qualify. I learned a crapload from him.
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