The Guns We Own

[Shortround6]

Might be a Timney trigger, it is after market. And you are right about the action there isn't much left except the receiver and bolt. The firing pin has been "speed locked", part of the sear ground away to reduce firing pin travel, Safety removed and the hole plugged and welded ( no magazine). The lower part of receiver ground down to fit in the one piece stock. Barrel is a hammer forged Enfield barrel. The gun shoots well enough to give lie to all the stories you may have heard about rear locking lugs. Perhaps not as good as the RPA 2000 but the Enfield will shoot under 1 minute of angle. Due to weight and length of stock it doesn't hold as well as the RPA ( a little more bounce) but any shot that is off center you can call of center as the shot breaks.
Due the weight and length of stock I have used it for 4 position shooting ( something I wouldn't try with the RPA) and routinely have gotten over 20 X's out 40 rounds fired ( 10 in each of prone, sitting, kneeling and standing) at 200yds on the standard SR target.

 

[Matt308]

My presbyoptic eyes make that a gun MUCH beyond my capabilities. They all look lovely, however. I would be willing to take any of those ladies home.

 

[Shortround6]

Part of the advantage of the fancy sights. The rear sights are fitted with adjustable apertures much like a camera lens and by twisting the adjustment ring you can change the opening. Like a camera lens a small opening gives better depth of field focus to help get both the front sight and target either in focus or close at the same time. Adjustment allows for different lighting on different days. The bottom rifle has a front sight that does the same, Twist the adjustment ring and the front aperture changes size (so much easier than trying to juggle small inserts). When I try to use a post front sight my groups (extreme spread) are about 3 times higher than they are wide.

Last time I used an M-16/AR-15 I saw two superimposed front sights side by side (over lapping). Another reason for 28-30 in barrels, gets the front sight further away. And then some of us older shooters use "bloop tubes" to move the sight even further away.

A really good set of sights with the bells and whistles cost more than most high quality scopes.

The Middle gun will take a scope and the one I use on it is an old Pentax 8.5-32 X but usually dialed down to 20 X give or take depending on the day, High magnification and mirage don't mix well.

 

[Matt308]

Fun stuff man. Nice posts.

 

[Torch]

Thanks for the info,very interesting.

 

[Matt308]

More cleaning out my Dad's stuff. Cleaned up his work bench and put things in order in his took kit. Identified camping gear for my oldest boy. And found his Ruger Single Six .22LR pistol and his camping knives/belt. A melancholy moment. Fondly remember him instucting me on how to shoot a pistol and the safety associated with it. I was about 6yo when I first shot it. I still remember that smell and the feeling of power in my hands.

 

[javlin]

Thanks Shortround for the info.I have had to Mini-14's and the first one being the better rifle harmonics wise if you know what I mean.It had a different aftermarket sight instaed of that POS Ruger puts on there.The sight was mas made in an L to accept a scope on top if one wanted to but the short side of the L had an adjustable peep sight.I was never able to track down another assembly such as that for my second Mini and I never felt proficient with the rifle thus cut it loose also(traded 1st one for part of my M1a).

 

[Torch]

i feel for you Matt,so many personal moments come to life when you get a piece of family history in your hands, when I take out my Grandpa's 16g SxS rabbit hunting I swear i can feel him be with me.

 

[bobbysocks]

i have an eastern arms 22 bolt action that was my dad's. iirc eastern arms was made for sears but savage/stevens. i lugged that thing all over the mountains as a kid. think i may have to take it up to camp this labor day and plink a little...just for old times sake.

 

[Matt308]

Now we're talking

 

[mikewint]

Yea, now all you have to do is find .22 ammo. Have not been able to score even 50rds around here since June

 

[Matt308]

Dad had a suitcase full of .22LR.

 

[mikewint]

Gun Broker dot com, Matt, you can probably make enough to retire

 

[Matt308]

God that is sad. WTF? Really I honestly want to know WTF is going on!?

 

[Torch]

Well,picked up a box of Federal 325rds of .22lr at my LGS,then went to the spanking new Cabela's in Lonetree Co. and picked up a box of Winnies 555 rds for 28.00 for my brother in law. Both had .22lrs but only sold one box at a time. You know friggin hoarders would jump all over that stuff if there were no rules..

 

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

Picked up another 100 rnds of .40 S&W.

My stockpile is slowly growing.

 

[Shortround6]

Ok, more gun porn;

Winchester Model 70 action, Hart Barrel, Custom stock. Warner Back sight. New Jewell Trigger. Gun was built back in the early 90s and I shot out one barrel, Second shots just as good. Caliber is 6.5X 308. or .260 Remington except the .260 wasn't a factory cartridge when the gun was built.

.223 on the left followed buy 6.5mm Rem BR. The Round the grey gun in the previous set of photos is chambered for. Also source for my user name, some sites will not accept the ( . ) in the user name. Next is the 6.5 X 308 (that is what is says on the barrels . followed by a standard .308. Bullet in the 6.5 Rem BR is black because it is molly coated.

When I was 10 years old my older brother and I asked my father for a BB gun for Christmas. He told us "A BB gun isn't accurate enough to be worth spending money on". Christmas came and there was a long box under the tree. It held a Winchester model 69 much like this one with target sights front and back and metal rail in fore-end to move the hand stop back and forth several inches and a target sling.

Fuzzy picture of the front sight. The Human eye works a lot better trying to make concentric circles than trying to gauge how much of a front blade is sticking into the round bullseye or how big a band of white you have (the apple on a stick doesn't really work that well)

One For the Pistolero's. A .22LR Smith 41 with short barrel, custom grips and a ONE power scope. no magnification but the crosshairs and the target are in focus at the same time

 

[Matt308]

 

[mikewint]

Shortround, really nice guns. Never tried any sights on a pistol have always used lasers. With only my left eye and me a righty (of course) even telescopic are tough for me to use

 

[Torch]

Very nice....