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One of the funnier ones that I know. I got a call from an Amish guy that I knew about a week before the deer season opened, asking me if I had a deer rifle for sale. I told him I did, a 243. He said he'd take it and if I had a scope and some mounts he'd take them too. I had an old Simmons Whitetail Classic, which was a pretty decent scope and I found some bases and rings. He said he'd mounted lots of scopes and he'd put it on.

The Friday afternoon before season opened on Saturday, I got a rather frantic call from him. He'd mounted the scope and no matter what he did, the rifle was no where close to zero. He couldn't hit the target at 10 yards he said, so the scope must be bad. I gathered up a few tools, and another scope and went to his place, getting there about 20 minutes before dark.

Well, the scope "expert" who'd mounted lots of scopes, had put this one on with the elevation turret on the left, and the windage on top. I loosened up the rings, turned the scope into the proper posistion, used the boresighter on it, and with about 10 minutes of light left, we shot it. He only had a few shells left, but it only took 3 to get it good enough for him. He killed a couple of deer with it that year. I still refer to him as the "scope expert" and wonder about the other scopes he had put on.

I was explained to by a new purchaser that a 300 WSM bullet leaves the barrel and drops a little before taking off to full speed. I guess kinda like a Tomahawk missile. Just smiled. Wasn’t worth it.

GreggH

Amish are generally not real bright. I deal with them a lot and most are morons just like most of the general public.

Had a guy tell us at work that he shot a groundhog at 800 yards. In the eye. With a .22.

Mmm. ok.

These stories made me laugh. Laughing is hard on the ribs.Keep them coming.

Thanks

On a swing through our local Coastal Country store looking for 6.5 CM cases, the local counter monkey (I like that term) immediately replied that I should have bought a 6.5x55 instead….. why? I asked.

It’s a way better cartridge than the Creed he said. An outstanding one shot elk killer…..

When asked how many elk he’d kill with his Swede, he replied that he didn’t actually own one yet but hopes to someday…. As for elk, he’d never killed one with a Swede - or anything else - ever

Actually a bullet is immediately affected by gravity when it leaves the barrel and does drop.

True. However when it leaves the barrel it is running as fast as it ever will be. It does not gain speed AFTER it leaves the barrel.

GreggH

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Guess he didn’t want that pesky windage turret cluttering up his ejection port👏.

Heard lots of weird and wonderful [bleep] regarding firearms. Most of it covered here.

Except that 5.56mm ball ammo had a sphere inside Teflon or some such fantasy that would make the round blow up in the target. No wonder defence budgets are so high!

Saw that more than once while working at the LGS. In fact I got two in one day...both mounted by a competing store with counter monkeys.Our guys were all old school at the time and knew which end of a gun the bullets came out of.

It begins accelerating downward (gravity) but it doesn't necessarily drop

Define drop. As it hits gravity and the atmosphere it has to start slowing immediately. It has to start dropping immediately. Maybe measured in hairs or fine fractions thereof..

Scope would have worked just fine the way it was. Especially if he had used the one shot sight in method instead of chase your tail. Shoot one shot. Hold the gun still. Move the crosshairs to the bullet hole. Done. You don't even have to know which way is which because you will see the movement as you spin the knob with hand or nickel or whatever.

I have one on a 30-30 like that. Wrong way. Works perfectly.

Actually for what they are educated for they are generally quite intelligent. But what they aren't educated for they lack in like most folks. And they don't need the education on a gun. They dont' shoot for fun. Only for meat basically.

I have probably not nearly worked around as many as you have but the ones I've seen are just fine for what they do.

Drop means moving downward in the vertical direction.

For any typical zero the beginning part of the trajectory is ascending.

Some of them, not many, are fairly knowledgeable when it comes to guns. But most of the Amish and Mennonites treat guns like a tool. They keep them out in the barn and most have never been cleaned or oiled. I’ve seen what would have been a valuable gun eat up with rust.

True.

Reloder28;
Good afternoon or I see it'd qualify for evening down in Texas, regardless I hope the day went acceptably and you're well.

Thanks for the thread and the stories it's brought out, they make for fun reading on a chilly day up here.

Thinking back on a lifetime of being around hunting and gun folks of all stripes, one of the wilder ones was a grain elevator agent telling me with an absolutely straight face that he'd shot 10 running whitetail across a quarter section of land, so somewhere between 700 and 800 yards, one with each shot in the magazine of his trusty open sighted surplus Lee Enfield.

When I'd asked if he had a scope, he seemed offended I'd even suggested he needed a scope for that sort of thing.

What else could I say, but responded, "Wow, that's unbelievable".....

Now way back in those halcyon days on the flatlands of Saskatchewan, a few of us would shoot at jack rabbits with our revolvers and the local constabulary didn't get the vapors when we did it.

A fellow I knew well was telling me he hit a big male jack on the other side of a quarter with a Ruger Redhawk .44 Mag when they first were released. He was a pretty straight up chap and when I pressed him for details, he related the following tale, as best as I can recall it 40 plus years hence.

It seems he was working summer fallow when the rabbit appeared a few feet onto the field, so with the first cylinder full he walked the bullet splashes in the dirt out to the jack which didn't perceive the threat, perhaps not hearing it much over the still running tractor.

Anyways, into the second cylinder full, he said the rabbit was hopping back and forth a little bit and as he related, between him squeezing the trigger and the bullet landing, the rabbit more or less hopped to the spot where the bullet landed!

He ended the story with something like, "It was the craziest thing you've ever seen and he had to be the unluckiest rabbit to ever walk the earth Dwayne".

It might not of happened, I don't know, but it still makes me laugh remembering him telling me the story.

All the best.

Dwayne

Customer told me the 350 Legend shoots laser flat to 600 yds.....

Years ago there was a member of our local shooting club showing off some pretty impressive targets he said he shot at 200yds with his beat up old .303 Enfield, It had some king of mongoloid scope mount and a $30 Tasco on it. A couple of days later my son and I pulled up to the range, There he was laying prone with the old Endfield on the bipod, less than 20' from the target.