Just need to know for a book. Father teaches daughter how to shoot a Pattern 1914 Enfield. I want to get every nuance right and I don't know fuck all about guns.
I read it through and think it's a good basic starter.
Cool.
Făkünamę wrote:Standing being the least accurate shooting position, of course, it's not bad. There's also the cross legged shooting position, the kneeling position, and the prone position. Obviously the prone position is most accurate as it takes most of your body movement out of the equation.
She'll be using the rifle to shoot three pigs for slaughter. Accuracy shouldn't be a problem in any stance.
They should have built that house out of Kevlar...
"A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn't there. A theologian is the man who finds it." ~ H. L. Mencken
"We ain't a sharp species. We kill each other over arguments about what happens when you die, then fail to see the fucking irony in that."
"It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism while the wolf remains of a different opinion."
Just need to know for a book. Father teaches daughter how to shoot a Pattern 1914 Enfield. I want to get every nuance right and I don't know fuck all about guns.
I read it through and think it's a good basic starter.
Cool.
Făkünamę wrote:Standing being the least accurate shooting position, of course, it's not bad. There's also the cross legged shooting position, the kneeling position, and the prone position. Obviously the prone position is most accurate as it takes most of your body movement out of the equation.
She'll be using the rifle to shoot three pigs for slaughter. Accuracy shouldn't be a problem in any stance.
Are these domestic, confined pigs or free ranging wild boar?
Why that particular rifle?
But here’s the thing about rights. They’re not actually supposed to be voted on. That’s why they’re called rights. ~Rachel Maddow August 2010
The Second Amendment forms a fourth branch of government (an armed citizenry) in case the government goes mad. ~Larry Nutter
Since he fought in WW1 (sort of) and domestic stalled pigs. It's more dramatic if she just shoots them dead instead of knocking them out unconscious beforehand. Oh, and it's not real! That must be emphasized. But I'm no stranger to animal slaughter having grown up with sheep whose lambs were taken to the slaughterhouse.
Gawdzilla Sama wrote:How much ammo you be needin' to shoot them there Revenooers?
More than I have, and as much as I want.
As a side note, I just bought 3600 rounds of Lake City .308/7.62 NATO ammo at the Knob Creek machine gun shoot to add to the 5600 rounds of 5.56 NATO Federal I bought last year.
See, as much as I want.
What those who are ignorant of shooting don't realize, is that several thousand rounds, is really not a lot of ammunition, but they think it is.
You and one or two of your shooting buddies could easily shoot 5000 rounds in half a day of shooting if you were training, especially if it's for competition, like 3 gun.
Yet, anti-gunners would love to limit ammunition sales, keep databases on people, totally violating their privacy, and ban internet sales of ammo all together.
I think it's been said that they go through a million rounds at the Knob Creek shoot. One 30 second firing of a Mini-gun expends 1500 rounds.
You're quite right though. I've been parsimonious in shooting my .308s of late because of the scarcity and cost ($1.00+ a round lately) of the ammo. The US army isn't using as much these days, so there's not much overrun, and the surplus market has dried up substantially.
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"All that is required for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing." Edmund Burke
"Those who support denying anyone the right to keep and bear arms for personal defense are fully complicit in every crime that might have been prevented had the victim been effectively armed." Seth
SteveB wrote:Since he fought in WW1 (sort of) and domestic stalled pigs. It's more dramatic if she just shoots them dead instead of knocking them out unconscious beforehand. Oh, and it's not real! That must be emphasized. But I'm no stranger to animal slaughter having grown up with sheep whose lambs were taken to the slaughterhouse.
I understand it is a story, but you said you wanted to be accurate.
We isolated them in a small pen, gave them something good to eat to distract them; then when in position shot them in the head from the top above the eyes then cut their throats to bleed them. We only used a .22lr for domestic, confined pigs.
I expect you can find youtube vidoes of domestic pig slaughter. That might give you some nuance.
But here’s the thing about rights. They’re not actually supposed to be voted on. That’s why they’re called rights. ~Rachel Maddow August 2010
The Second Amendment forms a fourth branch of government (an armed citizenry) in case the government goes mad. ~Larry Nutter
SteveB wrote:Since he fought in WW1 (sort of) and domestic stalled pigs. It's more dramatic if she just shoots them dead instead of knocking them out unconscious beforehand. Oh, and it's not real! That must be emphasized. But I'm no stranger to animal slaughter having grown up with sheep whose lambs were taken to the slaughterhouse.
Do you still hear the screaming at night, Clarisse?
"A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn't there. A theologian is the man who finds it." ~ H. L. Mencken
"We ain't a sharp species. We kill each other over arguments about what happens when you die, then fail to see the fucking irony in that."
"It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism while the wolf remains of a different opinion."
Gawdzilla Sama wrote:How much ammo you be needin' to shoot them there Revenooers?
There are no limits defined by need. One may have as much as one desires, can purchase, and has storage space for.
Yep, that's a very sane way to look at it.
Judgemental much?
I stated a fact. How does "sanity" even enter when stating a fact?
Is it sane to assign arbitrary and subjective emotional motive to a statment of fact?
In answer to that I think a rational person would think WTF?
But here’s the thing about rights. They’re not actually supposed to be voted on. That’s why they’re called rights. ~Rachel Maddow August 2010
The Second Amendment forms a fourth branch of government (an armed citizenry) in case the government goes mad. ~Larry Nutter
SteveB wrote:Since he fought in WW1 (sort of) and domestic stalled pigs. It's more dramatic if she just shoots them dead instead of knocking them out unconscious beforehand. Oh, and it's not real! That must be emphasized. But I'm no stranger to animal slaughter having grown up with sheep whose lambs were taken to the slaughterhouse.
I understand it is a story, but you said you wanted to be accurate.
We isolated them in a small pen, gave them something good to eat to distract them; then when in position shot them in the head from the top above the eyes then cut their throats to bleed them. We only used a .22lr for domestic, confined pigs.
I expect you can find youtube vidoes of domestic pig slaughter. That might give you some nuance.
That's exactly how I wrote it, except the cutting their throats part. The father can do that part.
I don't want to watch those videos. I choose blissful ignorance when it comes to graphic imagery.
SteveB wrote:Since he fought in WW1 (sort of) and domestic stalled pigs. It's more dramatic if she just shoots them dead instead of knocking them out unconscious beforehand. Oh, and it's not real! That must be emphasized. But I'm no stranger to animal slaughter having grown up with sheep whose lambs were taken to the slaughterhouse.
Do you still hear the screaming at night, Clarisse?
Clarice was a pussy and ran away with a lamb, my protagonist has a bit more balls.
though.
