Least proud moments with a rifle.

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CrociJA

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O.K. we've all had them from AD's to poor performance on the range, to the use of improper cleaning supplies on a rifle.
I believe mine was when I carefully aimed my brand-new Mini-14 Stainless Ranch rifle at a target 25 yards away (benchrested of course) and didn't even hit the paper with 55 grain FMJ rounds.
Dismissing it as a piece of junk, I let my wife try. All in the black. :rolleyes:

Unfortunately for my wife, I had to sell it during our college years for rent. Or at least thats what I told her. :D She now shoots either the 10/22 or the Bushmaster.

Jon
 
Hmmmm... mine would have to be when I took my AR to the range for the first time and shot a TQ19 silhouette from 50 metres. Only scored a 2" group, standing, with iron sights. ;)
 
Every time I have to sight in a new scope. I have one of those little boresighter jobs but it doesn't seem to help me much. I get it right on the money, take it to the range and I'm still 6 inches off on both vertical and horizontal at 100 yards. It becomes a sweaty and nerve-wracking experience, and the air around me turns bright blue with my creative use of 4 letter Anglo-Saxon verbiage.

Coinneach, better be careful with those thinly veiled brags of yours. Lots of us still around here knew you when you were just another Senior Member!
 
Bought an old Mauser and set the rear sight so high that my first shot went over the backstop which is 15 feet high. Lucky there is only dense woods and democrats beyond.

Noban
 
I had just tried to tune my Savage Scout trigger per instructions I found on line. Well...loaded it, sent the bolt home, and when I turned it down, it went off. The rule of keeping weapons pointed in a safe direction was in effect by all means, but scarey none the less. Took back apart and turned the trigger back to where you need a heavy wrecker and tow chain to fire, then it shot a .5 MOA three shot group. Go fig.
 
It would have to be that time off the bench, many, many, years ago when the round failed to fire, my fellow shooters grinned. I let it sit for about 30 sec or so and raised the bolt handle to cock rifle and tried it again. Fellow shooters were laughing! Then one asked how many firings I thought I could get out of one re-load? I had somehow picked up an empty off the bench and loaded it. Everyone saw it but me! :o :o

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Carlyle Hebert
 
Nice big buck. 75 yards, at most. Nice rest. Four witnesses. Patient deer; just stood there while we talked about him. :)

I put the crosshairs on his shoulder. Touched it off. :)

So far as I know, that deer died from old age. :o

:(, Art
 
South, I feel your pain. I went to LFI last February, and was busy on the firing line. So busy loading my "buddy's" magazines that I didn't check to see if mine were loaded.
Yep you guessed it. "Click". Since it was a timed event I dropped the mag, pulled the slide back, grabbed another, "Click". By the time I reached for my third mag. Lets just say "alibi". :o
Right in front of Ayoob too!
Granted this strays from the art of the rifle, but if one, ONE shooter is spared this embarrassment and possibly death (imagine if I would of needed that bullet), than I feel justified. Stupid but justified.

Jon
 
Had been trying to get a friend to go to a high power match for some time. Finally convinced him that the AR would not kick, and that the club in question was shooting at 100 yards, so it would be a good start on the sport.

Rolled up to the club, paid the fees, got everything ready - and discovered that I had left both the ammo AND all my mags at home on the loading bench.

About all I can say for myself is that the friend eventually did get into shooting, but still hasn't fired in a high power match.

Ken Strayhorn
Hillsborough NC
 
There's ONE time that I just can't get outta' my mind.
Camp Perry, 1985, third stage of National Match course, 300 yds, prone position.
This stage is a timed match, where you've got sixty seconds to go from standing position to prone, and throw 10 rounds at the "X".
The first through the ninth went OK, but when I was fixin' to squeeze off the final shot from my issued M-14, something was blocking my line of sight! :confused:
The last round was stickin' straight up with the bolt closed on the now flat-sided brass.
By the time I figured out I couldn't use that round, time was up. I told my score-keeper to just count it as a miss, which really put a hurtin' on my score.
That bent round still goes with me to matches as a reminder to yell out to the range officer if anything goes wrong again. ;)


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Adjusted the trigger on my Remington 722 in .300 Savage.

Took it to the range, chambered a cartridge, and when I pushed the bolt handle down smartly, it fired.

Yep, got a little too liberal with the screw adjustments. :(

Easily fixed with a screwdriver, though. :)

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sweedish mauser stuck bolt would not open for love or money had to use leather mallet, apon opening found SPENT .308 win in chamber. Never agin have I left spent cases on the deck and most surly only have 1 calibur of center fire open at a time (and yes I was very happy that it was a spent round and not a LIVE one.

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I was running downhill at night with a mdl 94 Winchester 30-30, in pursuit of wounded game that a client had shot. I tripped on a root or something, and planted the muzzle about 12" into the ever present Washington mud, which in this instance happened to be liberally interspersed with the droppings of local cattle.
No more shooting for me that night. I smelled so bad, they made me ride back to camp on the roof of the Bronco.

My cousin/partner got the shot though, so the critter didn't get far.

I had to endure his overdone re-enactments of the event for years. Eventually, he suffered a similar mishap, and I was fortunate enough to see it happen. Yes, I still rib him about it.
 
Back in the early '80s, I was plinking with my .22 rifle on my parents' land near Guffey, CO with my younger brothers. I kept telling them of the rules of safe firearms handling during the shooting session.

When we were finished, I checked and cleared the weapon and we went inside the house. Just before putting the rifle away until cleaning I, as usual, checked it one more time. Imagine my surprise when I found a live round in the chamber! Both of my brothers saw this, and I used the opportunity to say that no one is infallible and that's why they should ALWAYS treat a gun as if it's loaded.

I still feel like a dork for that one, as well I should.
DAL

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I was young and had always been a "handgunner" (and still consider myself such today) and had no experience with a scope. I had just finished sporterizing an '06 enfield and scoped it with a Weaver four power. After a few trips out I decided my lack of success was attributed to dirty lenses on the Weaver.
Yelp, I took it apart and cleaned the lenses. :o

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Gunslinger
 
Gunslinger, ah, you did have a nitrogen purged room to reassemble it, right...? ;)

CMOS

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<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Gunslinger:
lack of success was attributed to dirty lenses on the Weaver.
Yelp, I took it apart and cleaned the lenses. :o[/quote]

OHHHHHHH that's the kind of embarassing moments? Well as long as I am fessing up, back in bout 65 or 66 or so I kinda like errrr did the same thing! Decided to take my Weaver K-4 apart! Man are those crosshairs fine! :o I know my thumb did NOT touch it, it must have been the air pressure from my thumb being near the crosshair. :rolleyes: Well I packed it up sent it back to Weaver and 4 weeks later it was back as good as new NO CHARGE! Only thing they did was send another instruction paper with the part about not dissassembling it underlined in red ink! (Highliters were not invented back then)! Well the first thing I did after opening the box was zip across the street to the armory to show my friend that I got my scope back. I go in and say "Hey Don I got my scope back" I handed it to him he looked at it and said good..handed it back to me.......OOPS it slipped! Concrete floor! Smash! Cracked objective lens and bent the bell end of the metal..........back to Weaver in the same box they shipped it in. Six weeks later it was back like new...again no charge. To this day I cannot tell but I suspect that the 2nd time when I dropped it they sent a new scope rather than repaired my old one. I do know this.......today in the year 2000 that same scope is on my 03A3 Springfield and is as good as the day I got it back from the old Weaver plant El Paso in 66 or so!! :D :D

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Carlyle Hebert

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Imagine a custom Pennsylvannia long rifle with inlayed brass (fish, star, double acorns, heart) and other fancy trappings. Folks walk by and the curly striped maple and glistening brass hardware catches their eye. Opps, left the ramrod at home.
 
Haven't been shooting rifles for very long, so mine ain't all that bad. Plinking at the 50 yd range today, getting fairly good groups for me. (2-3") But the groups start wandering to the right. I figure it's just me not practicing what everyone here has told me, so I keep shooting. After another 30 or 40 rounds I start trying to chase the group with the windage adjustment. I just can't catch up with them, finally the guy next to me says "Your scope's about to fall of." The (*&^ rings came loose from the (&^*(&^ base. Now I have to re-zero the ^#$^%$ thing. :mad: Anybody got any Loc-tite?
Eric

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