Gordon
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I started shooting an M1 carbine on the New Brunswick NJ Old Bridge range back in the 50s. My dad had a nice Winchester red walnut one. He told me he loved his in the South Pacific in WW2 as a Radar Sgt . in the Army and the Winchester was one assembled late or after the war by local "Ordinance Women" workers and some how purloined after the war when no one at the factory cared much. Anyway we shot surplus ball at 50 and 100 yards and by 12 YO I was a skilled operator 
with the rifle kept on the back porch in a simple lock box next to the 10 acre Chicken farm rear door. I need a book to tell you of it's life from the late 50s thru when I left home in 1965 when my Mom passed away and I went in the Army in California. I had that Winchester until about 5 years ago , since I have a fine Inland which I use and a fine Dunellen Plainfield from 1965 which has a Ultimak rail and very accurate and reliable , it was sold for $1200 . I had an Aimpoint M2 with 4moa dot on the Plainfield , which has the Inland stock since I found a real M2 folding stock for the Inland which rides in my Mobile home behind the drivers seat. Well I moved that M2 aimpoint to an AK with an Ultimak years back to get a co witness, which only that low factory mounted Aimpoint will do on the AK. This left the Plainfield with the tiny rear peep kind of useless for me as I never drilled out the rear sight like I wanted to because it was sighted dead on at 100 yards. So for that unused Ultimak rail on the Plainfield I found the ultimate answer , in my life time !
This morning, between rain storms, I was invited to go to a large ranch for some blasting. They know I got Tannerite and they wanted to do a safe post new years thing in the wet Just the opportunity to sight in my new 3 MOA Burris Fast Fire 3 I got for Christmas , with some old WW2 ball ammo I want to get rid of. Any way in my 6 blocked with a pop rivet 10 round formerly Korean surplus 15 round mags made California legal. , I shot a lot of objects up to 200 yards and most at 50 yards at the ranch dump area we chose for blasting. I used the techniques the retired Spook I was shooting with at a Louis Awerbuck carbine class I attended at Modesto Sheriffs range in the earlier 2000s beat my butt and the rest of the class with his Inland Ultimak/Aimpoint 15 round mag set up. In that class we only shot to 100 yards MAX and most of it was CQB drills. His M1 and skill sets amazed the class and I recreated his rig and shot lots of wild live stock for slaughter much better than I had for years after. But now I have found the Ultimate ! The little Burris Fast Fire Three with it's low factory Pic mount gets almost as low a co witness as thehAimpoint M2 , it is smaller and lighter- which is crucial on a carbine, has a much sharper dot which is virtually auto matic. I used it in the rainy weather with it's nifty plastic cover to blow a few charges of Tannerite at 75 yards after I got it sighted at 100 yards dead on . I just lolipopped it at 50 yards . I am telling you this combo is the bomb and will bet my life on it! The rifle stays in California where I winter I'll take pictures tomorrow as it is storming and I'll have to go to Man cave tomorrow to clean the WW2 ammo out of it 200 rounds - ZERO failures ! I got about 4" 100 yard groups rested sighted in, it has a 3MOA dot !
with the rifle kept on the back porch in a simple lock box next to the 10 acre Chicken farm rear door. I need a book to tell you of it's life from the late 50s thru when I left home in 1965 when my Mom passed away and I went in the Army in California. I had that Winchester until about 5 years ago , since I have a fine Inland which I use and a fine Dunellen Plainfield from 1965 which has a Ultimak rail and very accurate and reliable , it was sold for $1200 . I had an Aimpoint M2 with 4moa dot on the Plainfield , which has the Inland stock since I found a real M2 folding stock for the Inland which rides in my Mobile home behind the drivers seat. Well I moved that M2 aimpoint to an AK with an Ultimak years back to get a co witness, which only that low factory mounted Aimpoint will do on the AK. This left the Plainfield with the tiny rear peep kind of useless for me as I never drilled out the rear sight like I wanted to because it was sighted dead on at 100 yards. So for that unused Ultimak rail on the Plainfield I found the ultimate answer , in my life time !This morning, between rain storms, I was invited to go to a large ranch for some blasting. They know I got Tannerite and they wanted to do a safe post new years thing in the wet
Just the opportunity to sight in my new 3 MOA Burris Fast Fire 3 I got for Christmas , with some old WW2 ball ammo I want to get rid of. Any way in my 6 blocked with a pop rivet 10 round formerly Korean surplus 15 round mags made California legal. , I shot a lot of objects up to 200 yards and most at 50 yards at the ranch dump area we chose for blasting. I used the techniques the retired Spook I was shooting with at a Louis Awerbuck carbine class I attended at Modesto Sheriffs range in the earlier 2000s beat my butt and the rest of the class with his Inland Ultimak/Aimpoint 15 round mag set up. In that class we only shot to 100 yards MAX and most of it was CQB drills. His M1 and skill sets amazed the class and I recreated his rig and shot lots of wild live stock for slaughter much better than I had for years after. But now I have found the Ultimate ! The little Burris Fast Fire Three with it's low factory Pic mount gets almost as low a co witness as thehAimpoint M2 , it is smaller and lighter- which is crucial on a carbine, has a much sharper dot which is virtually auto matic. I used it in the rainy weather with it's nifty plastic cover to blow a few charges of Tannerite at 75 yards after I got it sighted at 100 yards dead on . I just lolipopped it at 50 yards . I am telling you this combo is the bomb and will bet my life on it! The rifle stays in California where I winter I'll take pictures tomorrow as it is storming and I'll have to go to Man cave tomorrow to clean the WW2 ammo out of it 200 rounds - ZERO failures ! I got about 4" 100 yard groups rested sighted in, it has a 3MOA dot !
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