Hams42
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I am in the process of planning out a new load for one of my rifles and it caused me to think about how I was taught to shoot and the ammo we would use growing up.
I am very particular about my ammunition these days. In fact it's just as much of a hobby as shooting is. I've started down the rabbit holes of making my rifles as accurate as I possibly can.
Dwelling on this made me think of growing up and the arguments that I have with my hunting mentors my dad and uncle in current years . All growing up my dad would buy us the cheapest hunting ammo that was on sale. We would sight in 3 inches high at 100 yrds (regardless of caliber) and call it good. Once we shot up that box it was on to the next box of cheapest ammo. It was more times than not a completely different brand or bullet type we were lucky if it was the same grain bullet. I really dont know how I was hitting anything back then.
Fast forward to last year. I had a friend who has recently gotten in to guns and went on his first hunt last fall. He was talking to my uncle and my uncle gave him the advice to buy the cheapest ammo to sight in with then expensive stuff to hunt with. I eventually took my buddy to the store we picked out a decent bullet and went to the range. His gun shot it well and I told him to stick to this exact round because jumping around to different loads means you hit different places.
Now this post is not supposed to be me saying that I'm so much smarter or know more than my dad and uncle but just something that makes me chuckle.
What sort of things did your mentors teach you that were wacky, inaccurate or just flat out wrong?
I am very particular about my ammunition these days. In fact it's just as much of a hobby as shooting is. I've started down the rabbit holes of making my rifles as accurate as I possibly can.
Dwelling on this made me think of growing up and the arguments that I have with my hunting mentors my dad and uncle in current years . All growing up my dad would buy us the cheapest hunting ammo that was on sale. We would sight in 3 inches high at 100 yrds (regardless of caliber) and call it good. Once we shot up that box it was on to the next box of cheapest ammo. It was more times than not a completely different brand or bullet type we were lucky if it was the same grain bullet. I really dont know how I was hitting anything back then.
Fast forward to last year. I had a friend who has recently gotten in to guns and went on his first hunt last fall. He was talking to my uncle and my uncle gave him the advice to buy the cheapest ammo to sight in with then expensive stuff to hunt with. I eventually took my buddy to the store we picked out a decent bullet and went to the range. His gun shot it well and I told him to stick to this exact round because jumping around to different loads means you hit different places.
Now this post is not supposed to be me saying that I'm so much smarter or know more than my dad and uncle but just something that makes me chuckle.
What sort of things did your mentors teach you that were wacky, inaccurate or just flat out wrong?
