jakk280rem
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every year a local club here has an anual sight in prior to the open of the hunting season. the club is private, but they open there gates to the public, members volunteer, to sightyour shots and tune your scope accordingly. all you have to do is pay 3 bucks per gun and squeeze the trigger. i brought my ruger m77mk2 in 260rem to this club last year to sight it in and after about twenty shots had it hitting an inch high at 100yds with grougs running about 1 1/4 to1 1/2 inch using remington corlokt factry ammo. i felt that this was sufficent and so i took my rifle to the 200yrd gong set my rifle down to cool and was tooling up and down the line watching the guy shoot blackpowder and another fire a one moa group from the shoulder with a 12ga slug gun. eventualy my gun cooled enogh to try my hand at the 200yd line. it hit dead on so i then headed to the opposite end of the line for the running buck simulator. on the way there i noticed another fellow had the same rifle as i did only in 7mm rem mag. i stopped to watch as did a couple others. he would fire a shot rub his shoulder feel the temp of his barrel and then do it all over again. this gentleman had brought his, she looked to be 13 or 14 years old, daughter with him and she was looking rather bored. in the middle of one of his rub shoulder feel barrel breaks, she asked him if she could fire his rifle. he said no that she could probly handle it standing, but from the bench it would be a little too much for her. so i offered her my rifle. i said its only a 260. he said a 243win was about as much as she could handle and i had to tell him the 260rem was the same cartridge anly.5mm bigger. he agreed and her face lit up in joy. it wasnt until after she shot a 5 shot .75 inch group that he told me she was the oregon state junior smallbore rifle champion. great. she halfed my group size with the same ammo. i thought i would share this little story and see if anybody else out there had any simular storries about the younger generation showing us that all hope is not lost.
