Tomac
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NDM-86 Dragunov firing 168gr match w/a 1PN21 3-9x variable scope. Cold-bore first shot hit a claybird at 900m.
Tomac
Tomac
That's awesome. My buddy and I were out four-wheeling in a remote area near a small river. He had just aquired an SKS with a modern folding stock and large cap magazines. He was performing a cursory ammo dump for the first time firing across the river from the bank at a dead cedar tree on the other side. A mallard flushed out of the reeds beneath his feet and right into a 7.62mm FMJ. Just a couple feathers flew but the duck got it right in the vitals and glided right into a big granite boulder in the middle of the river and stuck to it like a spitwad. First and hopefully last time I've ever eaten poached duck.Mine happened a long long time ago in Viet Nam. I was out on patrol with some of my K's, and we were just kind of relaxing in the patties when one of them asked me how good a shot I was. He pointed to a bird that was flying overhead way way up. I looked at it, fired from the hip, one shot from my M-16, and before any of us realized it, the bird virtually exploded in mid air! Purely a luck shot. My K's couldn't believe it, and wanted me to shoot something else, but I said I didn't want to show off so one shot was all they got.
That story was told many times around the camp and they never knew if I was good or lucky. Trust me - it was all luck!