tjj
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Years back my wife's sister's husband got a surprise Christmas gift from my wife's sister. A used Rem 742 in 30-06 with a 3x9 scope. He invited me to go with him to make a hunt on public land so we headed out a day early to check the sight-in on his new rifle. Didn't have any real targets so we made one with a cardboard beer tray by marking a 2" bull in the middle with a black marking pen. We paced off 75 long steps in a heavy wooded area and got to work sighting in. He shot from the hood of his truck and I spotted with some cheap azz Bushnell binos. Well after about a half box of ammo we got it to within a couple inches of that black bull and he said "thats close enough".
Well I brought my Marlin 336 in 30-30 (my only center fire at the time) and I hadn't shot it in years so I said I'd better check zero before the hunt. I sat on the bare ground in a military sitting position, took aim with the stock pronghorn open sights and let er fly. He said clean miss and couldn't tell where it went because of the bushes surrounding the target. I said it couldn't be that far off so we better check the target. The hit was less than a bullet diameter off of dead center in the black bull. I said "that's good enough". He said some things I can't repeat here but he's a believer in open sights now. The fact that I said I couldn't believe it could be that far off made him think I was confident in a bullseye shot at that range.
To this day he doesn't know if I normally shoot that good or if that was just luck.
Well I brought my Marlin 336 in 30-30 (my only center fire at the time) and I hadn't shot it in years so I said I'd better check zero before the hunt. I sat on the bare ground in a military sitting position, took aim with the stock pronghorn open sights and let er fly. He said clean miss and couldn't tell where it went because of the bushes surrounding the target. I said it couldn't be that far off so we better check the target. The hit was less than a bullet diameter off of dead center in the black bull. I said "that's good enough". He said some things I can't repeat here but he's a believer in open sights now. The fact that I said I couldn't believe it could be that far off made him think I was confident in a bullseye shot at that range.
To this day he doesn't know if I normally shoot that good or if that was just luck.