bruce21b
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HI,
im bruce from lexington, kentucky.........
im bruce from lexington, kentucky.........
Yes, that is the idea behind the exagerated slope & works well with smaller cal. & lower velocity powder but with high velocity & heaver cals., it gives leverage for rise. So stocks got straighter. Now do you want to know about the "golden means principle" in stock design?Greetings everyone! hrshooter here and you can call me Dan. Looking forward to picking up my first two FAs after about a 30 year hiatus, both of which I decided on after researching the posts on them in THR. They're a H&R Sportster 22lr and Heritage 22lr RR. I know the RR isn't top drawer, but I'm going to take real good care of it and see how long I can get it to last. Been airgunning for the last 12 years and still do so I'm quite used to SS in a rifle.
Back when I was a kid and would visit the grandfolks in TN he let me use his 22 SS bolt and dbl bbl 12 ga. When in my early 20's my folks presented me with a nice Colt .38 service revolver in great condition, and after getting married my wife's grandparents gave us their Browning .25 auto. But, years later took 'em out of the safe deposit box and sold both for needed cash (with the kids around didn't want them in the house so wasn't doing anything with them anyway). Now, well, the Colt would sure be nice to have again, and it's a pity I never got to find out how well the Browning would have done at the range.
Went to the range today (first trip ever to one) and took my Crosman 3576 (460fps .177 SA/DA 10 shot CO2 revolver) since the HR and RR haven't come in yet. Wasn't sure what people would think of an air gun at the range, but, nobody laughed. Did surprisingly well at 10yds, nearly all shots inside the black and a fair amount in the red. Even after have the FAs will still be taking some AGs to the range, particularly the Daisy 22 SG, to see how well it can do at the farther distances. Had a great time at the range. One shooter had an M6 in mint never-fired condition. He had just sent a 22lr round down range when I remarked on it and he said it was the first time he'd ever fired it, and then asked if I'd like to fire it. Well that was a real treat, to have the honor of firing the second round ever in that venerable gun's life, and find out for myself what it was like to work its unusual trigger for the second time in its life as well; I'll say it was heavy, but not rough. I'm sure it'll improve over time.
I like shooting with iron sights for the most part and was thinking seriously about the Rossi .22/.410 Matched Pair which, is a youth size rifle/shot gun. The 22 SG's only a bit larger than youth size, but when I found a WM with a Rossi .22/.410 in its show case I was able to try it on and found the stock wasn't angled down enough to use the .22 bbl's iron sights without having to look almost completely over the top of my glasses. The 22 SG on the other hand has a more pronounced down slope to the stock making it more "heads up" when using the sights. Thinking further along the lines of sighting, this might be why Kentucky long rifles had such a pronounced, almost exagerated slope to the stock: so the shooter could easily look along the top of the barrel when shooting. Maybe someone can confirm that, or set me straight otherwise.
Sorry about the talk about AGs, since this is a FA site, but just wanted to share some background in my case. Probably others like me, I'm sure.