Old Newby from SEKent
Posted: Fri Feb 10, 2023 11:37 am
Hi, Old Codger here in the twilight of my shooting career.
Currently belong to 3 clubs and hope to be in a 4th by the end of April.
Have a couple of rimfires plus a 223, 6.5x55, 30/30 and 308, one of the rimfires is a 1947 bsa 12/15 martini that is a few years younger than I am, the other rimfire and the centre fires are hunting guns.
I reload for the centrefires and recently bought an old 30/30 mod 94 and have gotten into casting my own bullets and tbh would be quite happy to just settle on the 30/30 as my only gun.
OK it isn't blisteringly accurate but it's probably more accurate than I am.
The rifle itself is the carbine version and weighs just under 3 Kg and with suitable factory ammo recoils quite heavily, much more than my 308 for example with similar weight bullets hence the casting bug.
I like to limit my shooting at the range to 300 yards which is stretching the rimfires and 30/30 with lv cast bullets, even on a calm day, but easy peasy-ish
with the other 3, at least the charging infantryman targets and the electronic score system suggest I have more hits than misses, not with the rimfires I hasten to add.
I've more or less given up on stalking as, tbh, if I did harvest some fresh meat it really has to be light enough for an old boy with a heart condition to recover.
That's all history now and my present and future is focused around the rimfires and the lever gun and cast bullet reloads.
Currently belong to 3 clubs and hope to be in a 4th by the end of April.
Have a couple of rimfires plus a 223, 6.5x55, 30/30 and 308, one of the rimfires is a 1947 bsa 12/15 martini that is a few years younger than I am, the other rimfire and the centre fires are hunting guns.
I reload for the centrefires and recently bought an old 30/30 mod 94 and have gotten into casting my own bullets and tbh would be quite happy to just settle on the 30/30 as my only gun.
OK it isn't blisteringly accurate but it's probably more accurate than I am.
The rifle itself is the carbine version and weighs just under 3 Kg and with suitable factory ammo recoils quite heavily, much more than my 308 for example with similar weight bullets hence the casting bug.
I like to limit my shooting at the range to 300 yards which is stretching the rimfires and 30/30 with lv cast bullets, even on a calm day, but easy peasy-ish
with the other 3, at least the charging infantryman targets and the electronic score system suggest I have more hits than misses, not with the rimfires I hasten to add.I've more or less given up on stalking as, tbh, if I did harvest some fresh meat it really has to be light enough for an old boy with a heart condition to recover.
That's all history now and my present and future is focused around the rimfires and the lever gun and cast bullet reloads.
