This is NOT a request for funds, but merely a quest for experiences.
We've received a grant from the NRA and other sources to start a shooting program for the local BSA Troop. As such, we've got a total of about $5500. We have a local range who has volunteered range time, as well as a place to store the equipment (Scout Hut w/security), but that's about it.
I will affiliate with the CMP on Friday, so we may be pursuing rifles through them.
We will be buying a safe, which will be about $1200. The rest is available.
Although this will be a shooting program, we are not under the constraints of a shooting team (i.e., have to have the best). What I'm looking for is recommendations for rifles which meet the BSA criteria and are about $500 or less. It should be better accuracy than the average StuffMart squirrel gun.
BSA criteria-- single shot .22 caliber (can have a magazine as long as it's shot one at a time-- sleds?), trigger pull cannot be any less than 3#, and iron sights. That's about it.
The CMP sells the Kimbers, but I don't know if we want to go the route of such a rifle with no replacement parts. Perhaps a bit of paranoia from previous experiences.
If I can find a source of older Anschutz's, that would be ideal.
Thoughts?
We've received a grant from the NRA and other sources to start a shooting program for the local BSA Troop. As such, we've got a total of about $5500. We have a local range who has volunteered range time, as well as a place to store the equipment (Scout Hut w/security), but that's about it.
I will affiliate with the CMP on Friday, so we may be pursuing rifles through them.
We will be buying a safe, which will be about $1200. The rest is available.
Although this will be a shooting program, we are not under the constraints of a shooting team (i.e., have to have the best). What I'm looking for is recommendations for rifles which meet the BSA criteria and are about $500 or less. It should be better accuracy than the average StuffMart squirrel gun.
BSA criteria-- single shot .22 caliber (can have a magazine as long as it's shot one at a time-- sleds?), trigger pull cannot be any less than 3#, and iron sights. That's about it.
The CMP sells the Kimbers, but I don't know if we want to go the route of such a rifle with no replacement parts. Perhaps a bit of paranoia from previous experiences.
If I can find a source of older Anschutz's, that would be ideal.
Thoughts?