Pork Fat
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Personally, I found mil-surps to be great beginner rifles. Rugged, inexpensive,
and a great learning tool with charisma that a wally world commodity rifle can't touch. I may be biased, but I hate the thought of someone never learning how to shoot without a scope. It's like never learning how to drive stick- you never know when you'll need the skill.
I agree that the 6.5 Swede is an excellent middleweight round, but the cheap surplus dried up abruptly a couple of years ago. I meant to horde some, but there always seemed to be plenty until there wasn't any. Same with .303 British. We grow too soon old and too late smart.
and a great learning tool with charisma that a wally world commodity rifle can't touch. I may be biased, but I hate the thought of someone never learning how to shoot without a scope. It's like never learning how to drive stick- you never know when you'll need the skill.
I agree that the 6.5 Swede is an excellent middleweight round, but the cheap surplus dried up abruptly a couple of years ago. I meant to horde some, but there always seemed to be plenty until there wasn't any. Same with .303 British. We grow too soon old and too late smart.