Recent build...

[Troll]

I was wondering about that, myself...but maybe it WASN'T a typo.....

[CDNRatMan]

darn spell check meant to type plaque...lol...

[John Hopkins]

     John; John; you are aging us my friend......lol....   lol I have not heard that in a long time, I first heard it when working with the BAOR, I was way up northern Germany hauling land mines for a British Field Engineer group. We learned about the NAAFI and about the mess, it was a fantastic time.
So you were a Squaddie..........lol....I was given a very nice plague from the members of the unit after my 9 weeks with them about what makes a Squaddie, but have since misplaced it......it was a nice one too.

I really hope that was a misprint...

Before I joined the Royal Artillary I was with the 1st field squadren Royal engineers in Nienburg, Germany..

John.

[49Reo]

Love the archangel stock! Thinking about putting one on my SKS and keep kemming and hawing about getting an M1A. OMG you've found another way to get the wife made at me lol, better not after buying the new fender and Corbin seat, I better not buy any more guns for a while.

Well, don't let anything but fear and common sense hold you back....

[moosewing3]

Love the archangel stock! Thinking about putting one on my SKS and keep kemming and hawing about getting an M1A. OMG you've found another way to get the wife made at me lol, better not after buying the new fender and Corbin seat, I better not buy any more guns for a while.

[CDNRatMan]

      John; John; you are aging us my friend......lol....

squaddies

lol I have not heard that in a long time, I first heard it when working with the BAOR, I was way up northern Germany hauling land mines for a British Field Engineer group. We learned about the NAAFI and about the mess, it was a fantastic time.
So you were a Squaddie..........lol....I was given a very nice plague from the members of the unit after my 9 weeks with them about what makes a Squaddie, but have since misplaced it......it was a nice one too.

[Troll]

  Once upon a time, long long ago, in a galaxy far far away...my late Father and I would go up to the Lyman Gunsight range in Connecticut and compete in the iron sight only matches. 600 yds, no glass. All positions, slow fire. Initially I was using a DCM M-1 Garand. As I got better, I graduated to a Schultz and Larson 30-06 offhand rifle owned by the club we belonged to...The last couple of years we went, I was using my custom built 1911 Schmidt-Rubin 7.5 mm full rifle with handloaded spitzer boattail 170 gr. ammo. I eventually managed to get all the medals for the match within a match....10 rounds, offhand, 10 ring or better....I don't shoot much, anymore. I miss it, but it was one of the few things we did together, and with him gone since '86........

[John Hopkins]

I love rifles, back in the early 60's when Kennedy was still President, I was in the Royal Engineers and stationed in Africa, in those days we had a lot of National Servicemen who were paid very low wages, one way to increase your pay was to be a marksman so once a year we had to prove ourselves at the firing range.. The squaddies working the butts used a pencil to poke holes in the bullseye so that everyone got their marksman badge and our officers believed the results.. we had the highest number of marksmen in the British army.. aaaaaThen one day it was announced that our regiment was going to enter the falling plates competition in Kenya, during the regimental trials to find the best shot, the top brass were dismayed to discover that all our great marksmen had suddenly gone blind..For some reason I was selected to represent the regiment, 1000 of the best shots in the British army competed..the rules were you had to use the weapon you were issued..

The man who won was an officer in the Kings African Rifles, He had a Lee Enfield 303, he got all his shots in a 1 1/2" circle.. I had to use a (Belgiun FN FAL) SLR 762..Back in those days they had slowed the rotation speed so that the bullet tumbled so that a hit would cause more damage.. I came 60th and didn't shame the regiment.

John.

[49Reo]

Some clown was at our range one day thinking he was hot stuff because he was hitting the 300 meter gong 3-4 out of 5. He had a very nice weatherby, don't remember what caliber; I think 7mm mag. Had about $1000. in optics on top and that was the best he could do...he was also trying to help his buddy sight his own rifle in, the guys scope was on a quarter turn to the left, so the windage knob was on top. They were trying to sight in at 25 yards and making adjustments like they were shooting 100. When I mentioned that most scope were 1/4 minute of angle, and that meant that at 25 yards, 1" off became 16 clicks rather than the normal 4, they looked at me like I had sprouted another head under my hat. Some things just can't be fixed....
I am also in the middle of a H&R Buffalo Classic re-stock; all rifles are to short for me. And a .22 Crosman pellet pistol upgrade; it's a 1322, going to have a 14" barrel with an old Remington rifle front sight re-contoured and silver-soldered on, heavy maple grips to fit my big hands, bored transfer port bushing, and eventually a new piston, air chamber, and trigger group. And my "to-do" list grows and grows....lol.

[gdrudd13]

Ah, yeah. You don't see a lot of those so I went the more common route. In my defense, they look the same from a picture... That's pretty cool though. I like it. I had heard good things about those rifles, but it was always from people who had shot a friends gun, so it's nice to actually talk to someone that owns one. half the time people bash it for the sole reason it isn't a Springfield.

I do like that style of rifle though. I do want one. I have a 1942 Springfield Garand, and it would look so nice next to an M1A or version of it.

There are a lot of guns that get a bad rap for being inaccurate. I have an old Mauser that I brought when I went shooting with some people. We moved back to 300 yards and they said I wouldn't hit the steel plate (half size human silhouette) with iron sights. I shot 9/10. I did pull one, knew it was bad. Oh well. It's nice to prove people wrong on accuracy isn't it lol?

[49Reo]

Nice looking gun! I hear your lament on long range shooting area; not much out there for long range, other than main street, which would be very bad Ju-Ju....lol. Mine actually started out as a Norinco M305; a reverse engineered M14. It is an Archangel stock and Vortex Viper scope. Nicest scope I have ever used. With nothing done to it other that some cleanup and tuning work, it would ring the gong at 300 meters shot after shot, using the military sights it came with. I kept hearing guys talking about "minute of pie-plate" accuracy, so had to prove them wrong. For a Chi-com weapon it is incredible. No targets to show, but a "meat in the pan with every shot" rifle. 

[gdrudd13]

Nice looking M1A. Archangel stock right? Looks like a Vortex scope as well. What version of the M1A did it start out as?

Here is a picture of my long range build in progress. It started out as a Remington 700 SPS Varmint in .308 that I could use for target or hunting and then it got way too heavy to hunt so I'm going the long range route. Still need a new scope and a few other odds and ends to finish it up. I know at 300 yards it was crazy accurate, but it's hard finding anywhere longer to shoot unless you know someone with a lot of land.

[49Reo]

Heres is one of my recent builds.....and it performs as good as it looks......