I recently posted about my run of bad luck with a 6mm Creedmoor. After that I realized I was not alone in my run of bad luck. I would like to hear some of your stories.
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Amen Mark !!!!Luck = When Preparation Meets Opportunity!!
Most of my “bad luck” has been the result of poor planning on my part.
that's the kind of luck I am talking about! LOL.......if it warn't for bad luck, I'd have no luck at all, gloom, dispair and agony on me. I have two, count 'em TWO different rifles currently that are in need of some serious gun doctorin'. One is a Savage LA single shot that I had re-barreled to 6.5X55 by what used to be a very competent gun schmidt. He asked how do you want it necked and throated, I told him I don't want to turn brass and I plan on shooting 130-145 grain bullets through it. It got necked and throated for what appears to be military ammo, neck diameter of fired brass comes out at .300-.3005", and I can barely touch the lands with a 142 grain Sierra MK. The other rifle is a Winchester M-70 SA in 22-250 that I took a BLANKin' on, I did some horse trading at a gun show and wound up with this turd. A much closer examination after the fact revealed a totally shot out barrel, so the plan now is a rebarreling to 22-250 AI, plus the stock replacement (wanted but not necessarily needed) and scopes for both rifles. The scopes that were on both of them got "re-assigned".
Red ryder ???there was a groundhog 100yds from my truck hood I shot at him 17 times and he just kept on eating..![]()
lolRed ryder ???
cows are expensive!Almost had to buy a cow yesterday ! At our local range 200 yds. behind the 600 yd berm a farmer lets his cows graze in the field DIRECTLY in line with the targets.While testing Bergers new 7mm bullets at 300, I forgot to dial my scope down from the last 1000 yd match.That was a cold feeling !
I’ve done that before, now I color the bullets with a sharpie and make a note of what’s what.Last week I stopped at the range on the way to work and dumped the box of ammo that I had organized for a load test
Not a catastrophic mistake but damn it pissed me off for the lost time and opportunity