From a safety standpoint, how is a .50 any different from, say, a .308?
Actually, what I was thinking of - I guess I wasn't clear enough - are the issues of long-range target work, and dealing with a monster like that.
(Cleaning, transport, etc.)
A bolt action is a bolt action, and a trigger is a trigger, but I don't think most of us would use one of these monsters at less than 100-300 yards, at which point a lot of other factors come into play that the new user may need to be helped with - wind, serious bullet drop, etc.
Safety issues should be the same, although (speaking ignorantly, sorry) I wonder what the "dangerous" range for one of these is v.s. a .308 or some such. (Like the ammunition boxes that say "more than a mile"....)
Again, I'm talking to "across the sales counter" stuff, not enforced classroom time....
For example, I bought a new gun last May. First time in years, but that's another story. The counterkid finished the transaction with a quick rundown of OH's law on transporting a handgun. He didn't want me to get tagged before I got off the property. I knew that - I was carrying before he was born - but that's a perfect example of "across the sales counter education."
(And, yes, I eventually figured out that the thread was about an airgun, but the "education" comments still really apply.
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Regards,
