Michael Tinker Pearce
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Feeling nostalgic for the days of misspending my your at shooting galleries at Volksfests in Germany when I was stationed there I found out I could get a version of the gallery rifles we used. It's the Diana Oktoberfest Gewehr, and it's basically a BB gun. a 6.4 lbs bolt-action with an average velocity of 435 fps. Lots of fun for backyard plinking. I reset my four-inch hanging steel air rifle target to about 25 yards and have fired hundreds of rounds at it in the last week.
The unexpected benefit is that my off-hand rifle-shooting skills have improved dramatically. OK, duh. Fire hundreds of rounds and if you don't improve you're doing it wrong. But it genuinely hadn't occurred to me that this would happen. It's a good thing too; my skill in this area has been deteriorating over the last few years.
Anyway, this thing is a hell of a lot of fun for $170!
The unexpected benefit is that my off-hand rifle-shooting skills have improved dramatically. OK, duh. Fire hundreds of rounds and if you don't improve you're doing it wrong. But it genuinely hadn't occurred to me that this would happen. It's a good thing too; my skill in this area has been deteriorating over the last few years.
Anyway, this thing is a hell of a lot of fun for $170!