I remember the “Good old days” when no one had enough money to waste on shooting. You went to the hardware store, and bought three or four rounds to go hunting with and that was it till next year.
You shot that up in a $10.00 army surplus rifle of some foreign nation picked out of a 55 gallon drum at the same hardware store. Cash and carry.
Only “rich people” had bolt action Winchesters, Remington or Savage rifles.
A friend encountered a guy ‘zeroing’ his rifle on a public range. The guy was having all sorts of issues with getting a good pattern mostly stemming from the fact he was firing from a standing position.
My friend introduced him to zeroing from a bench using a rifle rest. Maybe 10 rounds and they had a fairly good zero, not great, but OK.
The guy thanked my friend and said he’d never had as good a zero as this one. Then he said, I can’t wait to try this with my good ammunition. My friend asked him what he meant and the guy said he had bought some really good ammunition but it was to expensive to zero with so he zeroed with the cheap stuff. My friend said: “Good luck”.
Saying bump firing is mostly done for entertainment is accurate as far as I am concerned. I personally am too much of a cheapskate not to mention being on a fixed income... to use up even surplus ammo let alone my reloads in this way. I am certainly not going to fire off a bunch of rifle cartridges that cost me $.75 a piece. But I do not mind if others want to spend their money this way.
In what country was this? And when?
We shot BRICKS of .22LR and BOXES of 12GA/20GA/.410 when I was growing up. And it was cheap and easy to get. This was in the South and Midwest of USA, in the 70's - 80's.