Seen on the street in Kyiv.

Words of Advice:

"If Something Seems To Be Too Good To Be True, It's Best To Shoot It, Just In Case." -- Fiona Glenanne

“The Mob takes the Fifth. If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -- The TOFF *

"Foreign Relations Boil Down to Two Things: Talking With People or Killing Them." -- Unknown

“Speed is a poor substitute for accuracy.” -- Real, no-shit, fortune from a fortune cookie

"If you believe that you are talking to G-d, you can justify anything.” — my Dad

"Colt .45s; putting bad guys in the ground since 1873." -- Unknown

"Stay Strapped or Get Clapped." -- probably not Mr. Rogers

"The Dildo of Karma rarely comes lubed." -- Unknown

"Eck!" -- George the Cat

* "TOFF" = Treasonous Orange Fat Fuck, A/K/A Dolt-45,
A/K/A Commandante (or Cadet) Bone Spurs,
A/K/A El Caudillo de Mar-a-Lago, A/K/A the Asset., A/K/A P01135809

Friday, January 9, 2009

Cosmetics and Guns; II

This is a benchrest rifle. It is designed to be fired from the shooting rest you see here. The job of this rifle is to shoot very small groups of holes into paper targets at long ranges.


This is a hunting rifle. It is designed to be carried afield and used to take game. It can also be used for target shooting and most rifles such as these will indeed fire the vast majority of its cartridges at paper targets.


This is a sniper rifle. It was built in 1943 to shoot Fascist invaders. Still, the vast majority of cartridges fired through it were likely aimed at paper targets.



In basic function, there is no significant difference between all three of these rifles.

And yes, I will do the same thing with the AR-15 platform.

2 comments:

Earl said...

As long as you build it with skill and lots of love, it will shoot better than you can, but that is still going to be sweet. And you probably shoot very well.

Comrade Misfit said...

Earl,

Only one of those rifles is mine.

I'm no great hand with a rifle. I don't shoot often enough. Worse from my perspective, the ranges here are pretty much benchrest-only; I can't shoot prone or kneeling or sitting or any of the "jackass" positions that Jeff Cooper described in his book "Art of the Rifle".

The ranges here also max out at 100yards, which isn't much help in getting experience with wind doping or any of that.