Made Smoke

[redhawk]

Two of my friends came over this afternoon to get  their guns ready for huntin since it comes in next Saturday. I took the usual jaw about my old rock knocker and why don't I catch up with the times. I was shooting my Mountain rifle.  You see both of them  shoot $@#$$lines.  One couldn't get his powder pellets to go off and the other had his scope knocked off.  I shot 5 times at 50 yards and had about a 3 inch group and they still hadn't got going .  I pull up a chair and start talking junk. Finally they get to shooting.  They are hitting all over the place.  Neither one shot a 3 inch group but they wanted to shoot 100 yards.  They said it would separate the men from the boys.    No better than my eye sight is I knew I would be lucky to keep up with them.  I shot twice one touching the bullseye and one just above it.  I quit with that I told them I wasn't going to shoot ones eye out.  After adjusting his scope again my friend shot 2 touching the bullseye and he give it up.  The other friend is still shooting all over the place with those pellets.  We messed a good hour or so and finally convinced him to chunk those pellets .  I didn't get him shooting black though.  I didn't blow them out of the water but me and my mountain rifle held our own.  They had to admit modern is not  necessarily  better . 

[voyageur1688]

 I used to get a jawing over my choices for shootin even before I started usin a rock knocker. 30/30 Wichester was "to wimpy"  Savage 110 30-06 was a "cheap gun" Then I started going to older stuff- WWII Mosin Nagant 91/30 sniper was "to old" Mosin Nagant M44 was a "flame thrower" then I got a caplock  "obsolete and lucky to hit at 50 yards"  rock knocker "not much better than a bow and arrow. Guess what--they dont laugh anymore as my hunts and shoots are doing just as well as they are out to and over 100 yards.
Voy

[gordy]

        Most of the people I"ve talked to that shoot in-lines bought them because they believed all the hype and  tall tales told to them by their buddys and/or some store clerk .   Oft times if you don"t try to argue them down  , and just go on shooting they start to get curious about why that old rock knocker or caplock seems to be doing as good or better then their in-line and start asking questions , thats when you offer to let them fire a few rounds .
        Now , this dosn"t mean an instant "convert" but it puts them to thinking .

[Hanshi]

Interesting thing is when I went exclusively to MLs for hunting several years ago, my success with deer did not change at all from the days I also used scoped cartridge rifles for the regular season.  I still hunted the hay fields, too.  My "state-of-the-art" friends call me a "purist", whatever that is.

[flintboomer]

Amazing how well these obsolete old things work isn't it!
One thing I noticed years ago is that my success rate is about the same, but the critters don't go as far after they are hit as when I used to use modern guns.