The most fun with a 336 - ever part 2
The next morning we joined up with a bunch of other lever gun enthusiasts to knock down a bunch of critters at various ranges.
My pard left his tack driving 30-30 in the safe and took the old girl (32-40) to the dance. Al the match director also decided to take style points over score and showed up with his century plus old Winchester 1873 in 44-40. Imagine the history and adventures those old guns have seen. Very cool.
We started on the Chickens and little did we know that the number 4 chicken in our lane was bullet proof. We both missed him... TWICE!
#4 Super Chicken, still standing despite our best efforts.
We had a grand time toppling those critters, even though it was cold and the wind picked up as the morning went along. With one shot left in the match this was ram was all I needed to break 30.... I choked... dern it! :banghead:
The 165 grain Ranch Dog bullet/2400 load is plenty to topple the heavy 200 yard rams, even with less than ideal hits. I got this guy twice in the "unit" during the match and both times he fell. The other two hits were from a side match we had after the official competition was over.
In the interest of science we decided to end the Marlin vs. Winchester debate once and for all. The contest would pit four Marlin shooters against four Winchester shooters, the first group to mow down five 200 yard rams wins. Needless to say we Marlin owners won easily and had our rams on the ground while two of theirs were still on the rails.
After being embarrassed the Whiny, er, I mean Winchester boys demanded a rematch, this time we'd shoot rams AND turkeys. I think my pard and I were the only Marlin guys left with rifle calibers and ammo but we were pretty sure it was still fair since they had to shoot Winchesters...
At the "go!" command I touched one off that sailed over my Ram and levered in another, this time I got planted a solid shot right in his middle and started looking for more Rams, My pard and his 1893 already had his ram down, the extra and was working on our teammates rams before I got a bead on the last one standing. One to the turkeys the with our Ram distance zeros we all sent our first shots high. We got three down when the Winchester dudes dropped their last Turkey....
Looks like this arguement will have to continue until we get a rematch...