Today i decided to go to Silverdale to test some ammo for 3 different calibers, 7x57 - 300Win - 375 H&H.
Anyway, from those 3 chamberings only found a decent load for the 300win, 1" group .
But I'm not writing this to tell you about my shooting, I got there early , around 7AM .
From 7 until 9.30 everything was normal, a few shooters doing their stuff. At around 9.30 4 members from the special forces showed up,
and the reason I say they were special forces is because of all the military terms they were applying to their maneuvers and handling of the firearms.
The 4 of them sat on the tables next to me and started blasting away like there was no tomorrow, ARs, Garands, SKSs, M14 and a 303 enfield .
Brass flying everywhere and over everybody specially with the SKSs, a fun day you might say.
It was like D-day, I could hardly see my targets with so much dust hanging in the air, thats when I stopped my quest of finding the miracle loads for my rifles and started to pay attention to their shooting.
And what I saw made me laugh really hard. This one special force guy was shooting a SKS and this is how he went about his business. He would load 5 rounds into his rifle with a striper clip, but from the 5 rounds that he fed
the rifle he would only shoot 3 rounds and have the rifle empty, and he could not understand what kind of phenomena was happening ,and then again repeat the process, reload the rifle with 5 rounds shooting only 3 and end up with a empty
magazine. At this point you guys must be wondering how is it possible. Simple, this special forces guy was loading his rifle with 5 rounds then he would release the bolt chambering 1 round fire it recycle the bolt fire it recycle the bolt and fire it.
but what he did not know was that every time he would recycle the bolt he was ejecting a live round from the chamber .
Guys that was hilarious,thats when I realized that instead of special forces personnel they were more like Medal of Honor and Call of Duty players.
It's stuff like this that makes your day worthwhile regardless of my not so good load development.
Have a great day guys.....Victor
Anyway, from those 3 chamberings only found a decent load for the 300win, 1" group .
But I'm not writing this to tell you about my shooting, I got there early , around 7AM .
From 7 until 9.30 everything was normal, a few shooters doing their stuff. At around 9.30 4 members from the special forces showed up,
and the reason I say they were special forces is because of all the military terms they were applying to their maneuvers and handling of the firearms.
The 4 of them sat on the tables next to me and started blasting away like there was no tomorrow, ARs, Garands, SKSs, M14 and a 303 enfield .
Brass flying everywhere and over everybody specially with the SKSs, a fun day you might say.
It was like D-day, I could hardly see my targets with so much dust hanging in the air, thats when I stopped my quest of finding the miracle loads for my rifles and started to pay attention to their shooting.
And what I saw made me laugh really hard. This one special force guy was shooting a SKS and this is how he went about his business. He would load 5 rounds into his rifle with a striper clip, but from the 5 rounds that he fed
the rifle he would only shoot 3 rounds and have the rifle empty, and he could not understand what kind of phenomena was happening ,and then again repeat the process, reload the rifle with 5 rounds shooting only 3 and end up with a empty
magazine. At this point you guys must be wondering how is it possible. Simple, this special forces guy was loading his rifle with 5 rounds then he would release the bolt chambering 1 round fire it recycle the bolt fire it recycle the bolt and fire it.
but what he did not know was that every time he would recycle the bolt he was ejecting a live round from the chamber .
Guys that was hilarious,thats when I realized that instead of special forces personnel they were more like Medal of Honor and Call of Duty players.
It's stuff like this that makes your day worthwhile regardless of my not so good load development.
Have a great day guys.....Victor
