Shooting a Model 94 30-30 at 100 metres

[iroc22]

And over the years I have met a few others like him.
So methinks it is more about the rifleman then the rifle.

Shooting with iron sights seems to be a lost art.

 

[josquin]

Several years back I remember watching a local old timer at the range string up Golf balls at 50 yards and shoot them offhand with his iron sighted 30/30 win.

He said when he was only 5 years old in rural Pakistan his father would string small scraps of metal from a tree branch on a hill backside behind their house and he used an old locally built martini rifle longer then he was tall...

Imagine not having a broadband connection to CGN where he could have started a thread on the best rifle and ammunition choice and gone out and bought a 325 WSM with a 3-9 scope and a few boxes of TSX's. Now that's POVERTY!

So methinks it is more about the rifleman then the rifle.

Amen. This post reminded me a little of the story of Jim Corbett ("The Man-Eaters of Kumaon", etc.) who, at a young age in India, if I can remember the passage correctly, "was given a Martini rifle [probably a .450] and as much ammunition as I wanted provided I kept it clean."

...The 300 yard target at Endako was a life-size mountain goat...

Dave, that brought back some memories of visiting the Endako Mine when I was a child. (My dad worked in the head office of Placer Development here in Vancouver.)

Stuart