davek
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So I inherited some rifles back in December and even bought a Yugo SKS about a month ago, and I only yesterday went to the rifle range taking the Yugo and my Krag.
First off, call me unenlightened here, but I couldn't really get comfortable at this public range because all of the safety officers were convicts from the county lockup. I mean they were very helpful and friendly, but I didn't like leaving my grandad's Krag under their care while I was fifty yards downrange putting up targets...let alone being fifty yards downrange from convicts + rifles + lots and lots of ammo period!
So at any rate, I shot the Krag first, and here's the wuss part. I've researched and asked questions on this board about the affectiveness of the 30.40 Krag as a high powered round, and the concensus seems to be that it's a respectable, if obsolete round that is outstriped by more modern cartridges such as the 7 mag, 8mm, 30.06 and the list goes on and on.
Well after ten shots, the old geezer had rendered my shoulder thankfully numb. After twenty, I had to put it away. So my first time shooting a "high power" rifle, (.223's as high as I'd shot previously) I came to the conclusion that I'm a fancy boi. Keep in mind, these are regular SAAMI loads. You real men can have your hyper power rounds, I'll just stick with the powder puff 30.40
. Even as I type this, I've got a silver dollar sized bruise on my little girley shoulder.
Seriously though, I did notice something interesting. Please keep in mind that I'm a novice with hunting calibers, but it seemed to me that at 100 yards, that 30.40 was PLENTY powerful. A guy a few lanes down was shooting a 7 mag or 30.06 or something (looked like a Remington 700) at a target 100 yards out (I was trying to sight in at 50), and when his bullet would hit the berm, it would shoot a plume of dirt up about 8 to 10 feet into the air, and I thought that was pretty impressive. But when I started shooting, my Krag was making mushroom clouds at the berm. The guy actually came over to find out what kind of "cannon" I was shooting. I was like, "it's a krag. Not nearly as powerful as your remington."
Could the fact that it looked like I was hitting the backstup with morter shells be the heavy 180 grain bullet?
First off, call me unenlightened here, but I couldn't really get comfortable at this public range because all of the safety officers were convicts from the county lockup. I mean they were very helpful and friendly, but I didn't like leaving my grandad's Krag under their care while I was fifty yards downrange putting up targets...let alone being fifty yards downrange from convicts + rifles + lots and lots of ammo period!
So at any rate, I shot the Krag first, and here's the wuss part. I've researched and asked questions on this board about the affectiveness of the 30.40 Krag as a high powered round, and the concensus seems to be that it's a respectable, if obsolete round that is outstriped by more modern cartridges such as the 7 mag, 8mm, 30.06 and the list goes on and on.
Well after ten shots, the old geezer had rendered my shoulder thankfully numb. After twenty, I had to put it away. So my first time shooting a "high power" rifle, (.223's as high as I'd shot previously) I came to the conclusion that I'm a fancy boi. Keep in mind, these are regular SAAMI loads. You real men can have your hyper power rounds, I'll just stick with the powder puff 30.40
. Even as I type this, I've got a silver dollar sized bruise on my little girley shoulder.Seriously though, I did notice something interesting. Please keep in mind that I'm a novice with hunting calibers, but it seemed to me that at 100 yards, that 30.40 was PLENTY powerful. A guy a few lanes down was shooting a 7 mag or 30.06 or something (looked like a Remington 700) at a target 100 yards out (I was trying to sight in at 50), and when his bullet would hit the berm, it would shoot a plume of dirt up about 8 to 10 feet into the air, and I thought that was pretty impressive. But when I started shooting, my Krag was making mushroom clouds at the berm. The guy actually came over to find out what kind of "cannon" I was shooting. I was like, "it's a krag. Not nearly as powerful as your remington."
Could the fact that it looked like I was hitting the backstup with morter shells be the heavy 180 grain bullet?
