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Busy Weekend Ahead

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#1 ·
I expect I've got a busy weekend waiting for me.......The Boss gave me an early fathers day present today, an Encore SS carbine with a 223 barrel......

I finally got brass made and loaded for my 338-06 AI so now I've got to fireform it.... Don't know if I'll survive all 50 rounds in one day...

I have to get a target scope mounted on the 223 and then Saturday should be FUN!!

John
 
#3 ·
Splendid, I got me one a them sissy pads.....I bought it for the Boss when she was sighting in her 7 mag.......She didn't like it and wouldn't use it, So I tried it out, and from the bench, it's a lifesaver......

If you are gonna be doing a lot of shooting with a kicker, particularly from the bench or prone......It's the only way to go....

Don't need it when hunting though, I've never felt recoil when I was shooting at game......

John
 
#4 ·
You are right about that, I doan even hear the report. BP, Doo Dah and I all shoot the Ruger #1 in 338. Just sightning it in will test you fortutude. Hunting is totally different. I do know when you shoot something wiht the GCC, it does not run off.

Now, I have some lesser caliburs and they would probably be good hunting rifles, but it is hard to move from the clean killing power of the 338. The last deer that was shot was hit up high and he flipped upside down before he hit the dirt. I have been impressed by its power and love my #1 for hunting big game.
 
#5 ·
John

I ain't preaching to you here but I do want to pass on my personal experience in the hopes that it might spare someone else the disastrous results I got from that shooting session Splendid mentioned.

Both Splendid and I had new GCC’s and he came to my house over a long 3-day weekend. We went up to a beautiful place right up under Amicalola Falls and Springer Mountain to shoot across a flat field into the dam of a large lake. It was NICE. We had lunch and a cooler of water and cokes with us. We had a bench rest, stools and chains and chronographs and everything we needed to shoot and we were in the shade of large trees. It was a damm GLORIOUS weekend with bright blue skys and light winds. Just PERFECT for shooting.

I had a custom stock on my rifle with a high comb. I also had 60 rounds of ammo I wanted to test and all of it was full hunting loads and some of it was loaded hot. I was shooting bullets from 210 to 250 grains in weight.

I shot about 30 rounds the first day and we went home and loaded up more. On the second day, my right cheek was red and it hurt like hell to shoot. On Monday, I noticed a slight “blur” in my right eye and thought nothing of it but it got worse as the day went along.

I was working for a large group of eye surgeons at the time so when I went to work Tuesday morning, I got in the chair and had the vitro-retina specialists take a look at it. He asked me if I had been in a car wreck or had been subjected to “Trauma” lately. I told him no but I had shot my rifle all weekend. (Actually I fired about 60 rounds over two days.) The doctor is an elk hunter and he used a GCC also and when I told him what I had done, he said, that will do it.

What it had done is separate the vitreous from the retina in my right eye. Now that IS NOT the same thing as a detached retina. They can fix that but once you do to your eye what I did to mine, there is no known treatment or surgical procedure to repair it.

So don’t be a dumb ass like I was. If you experience any discomfort, STOP!! That is your body trying to tell you it is being damaged. And for sure, DO NOT have a high comb on any rifle that has more recoil than about a 30-06 and even then, it’ll hurt you if you shoot 220-grain bullets like I do.

Just my 2 cents worth. BTW, John Wooter’s did the exact same thing to his right eye shooting a 45 / 70 with heavy loads and heavy bullets out of a No. 1 Ruger. It’s a pretty common injury , especially to older shooters, but it is not well publicized and it should be in my opinion.
 
#6 ·
Davy, I don't think I'm courageous enough to actually do much physical damage to myself fireforming.

The loads are using a 200 gr bullet and they are a couple of grains shy of being max......Should be around 2800 fps.....

With any luck, they're will be some lookie lous around that want to try the gun and that will save me some grief.....

I quit being 10 ft tall and bullet proof some time ago......

John
 
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