Impureclient
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X2Ruger 10-22. I have no idea how these POS's got so popular.
I guess after you spend $1000 to get it to shoot, they aren't so bad?
X2Ruger 10-22. I have no idea how these POS's got so popular.
That's by far not the worst gun in your collection. It's just the worst shooter in your collection.My worst is a Japanese Arisaka type thirty eight 6.5mm. It is covered in rust and the bore is the worst piece of rusted barrel I have ever seen. It is literally worth nothing. Why do I keep it? It is a war trophy, brought back from Guadalcanal by a Marine named Alex Avilas, who I knew thirty five years ago in California. The crest is, of course, intact, and it is to me a priceless relic of history.
This is such a poignant and well written post, it really deserves its own thread. Thank you gdcpony.Mine is a basic 10/22. It isn't a bad gun and my middle daughter has taken possession of it for herself. She says it reminds her to be safe which chokes me up a bit.However she out shoots Marines with it and loves it.
MacKenzie just won against those Marines and now they have brass clean up!
As far as why I hate it so much yet can't get rid of it, well... I open classes I give on suicide prevention for the Corps like this:
I once knew a Marine who fell asleep during one of these briefs. He was a cocky Sgt and when the Chaplain asked why he felt he could simply fall asleep he replied, "If someone wants to off themselves, I think you should just give them the gun and let them do it. It would save time and trouble"
A year later he was out of the Corps and looking to set up his civilian life. He was staying at his parents in the meantime while he looked for work and an apartment. One day a fight broke out among the family with everyone yelling and this Marine was walking out the door as his mom looked at him and asked him to stay as "George, you're the only one I feel I can talk to right now,"
His reply was cold and angry, "Frankly, right now I don't care. Find someone else."
Hours later he received a call that his mother was being life flighted to a hospital with a gunshot to the stomach. He raced to the hospital to spend the next four hours watching her bleed to death after shooting herself with a gun he had given her years earlier.
Before you think of not giving a sh!+ in my brief keep in mind that this is not some story about someone you don't know. My first name is George, and I still have that little .22.
Then I proceed with the brief. It works as both therapy for me. It also keeps the Marines attentive when I get to the fact that 5 minutes of my time could have saved my mother's life all those years ago. She would have seen my son, and knew I married the woman she always said I would.
Ruger 10-22. I have no idea how these POS's got so popular.
Mosin Nagant
Ammo is corrosive, heavy recoil, low capacity, overly long, sights leave a lot to be desired, I'm keeping it because it works and it was cheap, as was the ammo.
You got very unlucky and/or you are doing something wrong. There are several different models of the Mosin Nagant. I have been shooting them for twenty years but I have never used corrosive ammo. That is on the shooter, not the gun.
You got very unlucky and/or you are doing something wrong