max popenker
September 19, 2003, 03:34 AM
well, at first i must say hello
if you do not know, i'm living in Russia, where gun laws are way more prohibitive than in US - for example, you cannot own any handguns at all; every long gun purchase must be approved beforehand by local police, and every gun bought must be registered with the same.
so far, i had no time to enter all those troubles with local police bureaucracy, and, most important, my wife was strongly against any guns at home.
But, when my eternal passion for firearms began to bring back some "fruits" (i work part-time as an editor and translator for the "Guns & Ammo - Russian edition" magazine), she began to be more positive on the subject.
Our editorial staff used to go to some indor range once a week, and burn some fodder and talk a little. Yesterday i took my wife along with me to that meeting, and guess what? She liked it :p
We started with a brand new Marlin 60 in .22LR, just imported here for the first time. We shall write a report for magazine, so we had through test for this little toy. Open sights, offhand accuracy at 50 meters was terrible, but with some Chinese 4X scope and from some form of rest, we managed to make some 4" inch groups. It must be noted that the trigger on that Marlin 60 was just awfull - even my wife noticed that. But despite the poor trigger, she shot the tinhg quite well.
Then we moved back to 100 meters and burned some Tula-made (Wolf) .223 ammo in a really nice CZ 527FS rifle, topped with 4-12X variable Meopta scope. Again, we shot from the rest, and my wife liked the CZ much more than Marlin, especially because this CZ had a properly tuned, smooth trigger set at about 3lbs. The good scope also helped alot. The most noticeable thing about that part of the shot was the huge fireball, produced by the Tula ammo - the S&B ammo makes almost no muzzle flash when fired from the same rifle. Accuracy was.. adequate, anyway, who will suspect a sub-MOA with steel-cased Wolf ammo? Still, some of us managed to make some nice sub-2MOA groups :cool:
what else can i say? just look at the photos below. Am I a happy man? Of cause, I am :p
Me & marlin 60
http://mail.guns.ru/Lists/firearms_r/Message/679-02-B/p1.jpg
My wife Elena & same Marlin
http://mail.guns.ru/Lists/firearms_r/Message/679-03-B/p2.jpg
me & CZ527
http://mail.guns.ru/Lists/firearms_r/Message/679-05-B/p4.jpg
Elena & CZ527
http://mail.guns.ru/Lists/firearms_r/Message/679-04-B/p3.jpg
if you do not know, i'm living in Russia, where gun laws are way more prohibitive than in US - for example, you cannot own any handguns at all; every long gun purchase must be approved beforehand by local police, and every gun bought must be registered with the same.
so far, i had no time to enter all those troubles with local police bureaucracy, and, most important, my wife was strongly against any guns at home.
But, when my eternal passion for firearms began to bring back some "fruits" (i work part-time as an editor and translator for the "Guns & Ammo - Russian edition" magazine), she began to be more positive on the subject.
Our editorial staff used to go to some indor range once a week, and burn some fodder and talk a little. Yesterday i took my wife along with me to that meeting, and guess what? She liked it :p
We started with a brand new Marlin 60 in .22LR, just imported here for the first time. We shall write a report for magazine, so we had through test for this little toy. Open sights, offhand accuracy at 50 meters was terrible, but with some Chinese 4X scope and from some form of rest, we managed to make some 4" inch groups. It must be noted that the trigger on that Marlin 60 was just awfull - even my wife noticed that. But despite the poor trigger, she shot the tinhg quite well.
Then we moved back to 100 meters and burned some Tula-made (Wolf) .223 ammo in a really nice CZ 527FS rifle, topped with 4-12X variable Meopta scope. Again, we shot from the rest, and my wife liked the CZ much more than Marlin, especially because this CZ had a properly tuned, smooth trigger set at about 3lbs. The good scope also helped alot. The most noticeable thing about that part of the shot was the huge fireball, produced by the Tula ammo - the S&B ammo makes almost no muzzle flash when fired from the same rifle. Accuracy was.. adequate, anyway, who will suspect a sub-MOA with steel-cased Wolf ammo? Still, some of us managed to make some nice sub-2MOA groups :cool:
what else can i say? just look at the photos below. Am I a happy man? Of cause, I am :p
Me & marlin 60
http://mail.guns.ru/Lists/firearms_r/Message/679-02-B/p1.jpg
My wife Elena & same Marlin
http://mail.guns.ru/Lists/firearms_r/Message/679-03-B/p2.jpg
me & CZ527
http://mail.guns.ru/Lists/firearms_r/Message/679-05-B/p4.jpg
Elena & CZ527
http://mail.guns.ru/Lists/firearms_r/Message/679-04-B/p3.jpg