IWI rail give away!
Added 2024-08-25 19:16:51 +0000 UTCI have this spare I’m not going to be using so I’ll put it up to the Patreon faithful who stick around. Most humbling thing you’ve faced in shooting? Go!
I’ll pick a winner next week.
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Showing up to your classes on the peak of mount stupidity. Realizing quickly that i know nothing and coming from the hunting side of things that speed is actually a (huge) consideration in the shooting world. Plan to shoot a match this winter or next spring when i can sneak away from a crazy hectic season of life. (I’m sure that’ll top it)
Connor Snoga
2024-08-26 21:53:35 +0000 UTCYears ago I attended my first ever shooting match(USPSA). I was lucky to have had good trainers for classes I had taken previously but was of course new to competition. I went early as required and completed the safety class. When the shooters meeting came around I was amping myself up and trying to think things through when the safety class instructor called on me to reiterate the rules since I had just had the class. I experienced my first complete brain fade and froze. I managed to get out a rambling sentence about “keeping your gun holstered and not pointing it at anyone” and then basically repeated that again. The entire class laughed in unison and the older guys rolled their eyes. I knew the rules, but conveying all of them, and doing so in any cohesive manner, was simply not in the cards at that moment. It was just the start of the realization that although I had some good fundamentals, I knew nothing about performing under pressure yet - and that certainly wasn't even high pressure to begin with. I completed the match just fine and managed to even squeak out a decent result for my first time. It would be a couple years before I went back, but now I compete consistently.
Chris
2024-08-26 18:18:41 +0000 UTCMy dad was a gun collector, but not a shooter. In my mind, we were gun people; guns were always around us. Growing up in California, there weren’t many places to take them and shoot, but they were a constant presence in our lives. I was just ten years old when I first shot my dad’s .454 Casull. He had set it up for me to use with .45 Long Colt rounds, but I didn’t know he had snuck in a .454 Casull round. When I squeezed the trigger, the recoil nearly made me drop the revolver. My dad quickly chewed me out for almost losing control of the gun, but that moment ignited a fire in me to become a better shooter than him. Looking back now, I can’t help but laugh at the memory. It was a pivotal moment that shaped my relationship with firearms and my determination to improve.
Hello mr g
2024-08-26 06:32:28 +0000 UTCKnowing the .308 ballistics “like the back of my hand”...and taking a 248 yard shot on a red hartebeest with someone else's rifle in South Africa. Gun was shooting same loads as my .308 at home. Saw and heard a good hit, animal went down...walked up on it and up it popped 50' away. Missed the best opportunity for a follow-up shot waiting for PID (didn't want to shoot a second one, but DUH--the rest of the herd ran off, of course it's mine popping up!). By the time the Professional Hunter (PH) said "that's him", the hartebeest was rounding a corner 75 yards away and sprinting up a hill. Sprinted after him, took a follow-up shot on the run, missed. Then my whole party got the spend the next 3 hours into the night tracking him (2 Americans, 8 South Africans). Found buckets of blood for about a mile, and then he just stopped bleeding and to this day the carcass/horns haven't been found on the farm (this was in 2019). Usually a wounded animal doesn't make the night, but this one flat disappeared and we think must have survived despite the buckets of blood we found. Reminded me to be humble on my shooting skills, tracking skills, and hunting skills. Also had to pay for the animal (but I knew that before I shot). Otherwise a great hunt with lots of game taken, but don't get cocky!
Jesse (Sphinx)
2024-08-26 01:06:30 +0000 UTC
