Ahhh, my 8mm!

[DOGolden]

{At last the glorious ability to be able to post and host pictures like I like doing! What a relief!!}

Anyway, here's me doing my thing @ Philson's Crossing in SC a few months ago {late last summer}. It used to be a Turkish Mauser with a bad headspace issue. Fred @ LowTech rebarreled it to .308 and then we rebarreled it again back to 8x57. I got lucky and found some minty Turkish Mauser barrels that were just laying around & I got the pick of the litter.

Me doing my thing {photo courtesy of Ol' Fella}:
http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a47/dogolden/PICT0004.jpg

Here is the target from the first three shots:
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{100 yard target}

[DOGolden]

Here is the target from the next three shot groups. The first three are high, the second three are low and to the right, and the last three? Well, the proof is in the pudding!

http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a47/dogolden/051018205734.jpg

Happy? Oh hell yeah!!
http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a47/dogolden/PICT0003.jpg

[DOGolden]

That Turk took about three years to get like that. She has come a long way from her glory days. She now has a Boyd's stock, Timney custom trigger, Burris 2.75X long eye relief rifle scope ($$$), forged bolt, and she is glass bedded and the barrel is free floated.



ps - I am making the pictures small and only posting two or three pictures per reply so that anyone on dial up can view some of the pictures, if not all of them.

[WmRoy]

Well Dog that rifle turn out looking good and shooting better..........:headbanger:

But who's that ugly ole hound ya got holding it up for the photos?? :D

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[DOGolden]

But who's that ugly ole hound ya got holding it up for the photos??


I gotta admit you had me giggling with your post. Dumbass me even clicked back to see if I posted the wrong picture! Hee hee! :laughing4:



True story follows:

You see that guy in the white tee shirt standing behind me? He was kind of new and did not really seem to know what time it was. I suspected that he was kind of new at shooting because he just didn't seem to be confident in what he was doing. Anyway, he kind of made me uneasy the way he was shooting and handling that pistol next to me. In fact, I had to keep an eye on him :bs: while I was shooting. I did however ask him how he was shooting {when he left the target was still blank}.

Within just a minute or two of me finally getting the second target done I noticed out of the corner of my eye that the newbie shooter had shot seven of the eight bullets. He relaxed and pointed the gun down while squeezing the trigger. BOOM, and his face turned white. There was a 9mm hole in the ground about 4 inches away from his big toe. At this point he called it a day.

True story ended!

[Toney]

Nice rifle!!! good shooting!

[SAC22PPC]

oooo wow!
the gunshops owners son...well jack. now hes the head cheese there as its passed to him. anyhow i was looking over a 223 something or other and he tells me how one day he was goofing with an ar15. seeing if it was working right chambering and extracting...in the shop. well hes talking and not paying attention to what hes doing...BLAMM!!! nice little 22cal hole in the celing.
another story hes told me of is when he was a kid and they were shooting down at the schools range. yes i hear schools used to have marksmanship teams and compete against eachother. well this was after hours and some local people were there shooting on the range. his father let this fellow shoot a 22pistol. these are all very experanced shooters and knew there stuff saftey wise. so the guy shoots the pistol some and hands it to jacks father. he hands it to jack and tells him to put it away in the car. jack is walking back with a bud and jack aims the pistol at the car...again another nice little 22cal hole this time in the car door!
moral of the stories? dont get relaxed or over confident in your safety!

speaking of 8mm dog.
my father has been having fits with coyotes keeping him up at night. this morning he sees a "greywolf" down in the field...well he and i have our go around about the wolf/coyote thing...seems he hears coyotes but sees wolfs...oh well. i let the dogs out and see way way down in the field something out of place...hmmmmm you little bugger! grab my fuax turksniper. yep coyote! i was able to get him to stop for a second or two at a time, enough for a shot! ok load and set up...fire too low...he runs....stops shoot too high! RATS! he stops again....blam he drops and flops for a split second and then takes off like a banshee! too far for me to go see about him. rough feilds and way way out there. i estimate around 350 to 400yards. i figure either i hit him or the bullet bounced at his feet and posibly hit him or at the very least scared the devil out of him. oh and that 8mm bullet kicks up ALOT of water/ice/snow right now, BIG puff of stuff flys up. easy to see where you are hitting.


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[DOGolden]

Safety eh? Let me think...hmmm. I put a .22 hole in me bedroom wall many moons ago. :eek:

{ps - I deleted your thread because of a duplicate posting}

[sc-closer]

I had a sorta scary incident once...I had this old Ithaca 37 pump...the kind that you load the shells in the bottom, and they eject out of the bottom..no side ejection port. Well, I carried this baby in my truck, with police 00 buck shot in the mag tube, but nothing in the chamber. A friend and I were out hunting in Greenwood county and we got to talking when we came back to the truck about the shotgun, so I pulled it out to show him. I told him that it was loaded , but I kept the chamber empty. Of course before I handed it to him, I wanted to verify that the chamber was empty, so I slipped the action open about half way so I could look up from the bottom into the chamber to make sure there was not a round in there. Then I closed it back. My buddy asked if it was clear. I told him that I thought it was, but I wasn't quite sure. So I said, hold your ears, and I pointed it into a safe direction toward a big old oak in the field about 25 feet away from us and pulled the trigger. BLAM!!!!!!!!!!! Scared the crap out of me and my buddy, as we really expected it to be empty. So, I went ahead and ejected every shell onto the ground and then handed it over to him to look at.

2 points I got from this is 1..it doesn't take but half of a slide rack to chamber a 2 3/4 shell in a Ithaca and 2. It sure does pay to be careful. I should have just unloaded it completely to start with, but I am so thankful that when I wasn't 100% sure that I pointed the gun in a safe direction for final verification. If you have any doubt whatsoever, be safe and have a second look.

sc-closer

[Ash]

Good point there sc-closer.
Last year I was at a friends parents house. His dad and him were shooting their .357 Mag revolvers in his backyard range. (I headed over not knowing they were going to be shooting) I'm standing back watching, and covering my ears when need be. My friend switches over to shooting his .45 ACP Ruger pistol. He fires off a few into the target then stops. Apperently his gun jams or something. He starts investigating then about 30 seconds later...Blam, a round goes off. I was very close to him and never saw him pull the trigger. He's still not sure what happened. (probably a hang fire) I'm just glad that he had enough sense to be holding the pistol pointing downrange. :eek:

Being safe lets us all stick around a little while longer. :grinning-thumbsup:

[Rockman]

Nice Shootin' Dog! Keep me proud buddy. ;)