Posted on 08/05/2021 3:47:02 PM PDT by absalom01
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While the pistol was manageable, even comfortable to hold and fire, the rifle was a different beast altogether. Everything about it — its weight, tactical scope and overall lethality — was downright intimidating.
The fact that the first magazine refused to click into place didn't help either, further unnerving me. What if I just broke a $3,500 rifle? A fresh magazine worked just fine, though, and after loading it, I sent the target out to 15 yards.
When ready, I lined up the target in the cross hairs, pulled the stock onto my shoulder, squeezed the trigger and — BA-BOOM!!!!!
It is difficult to describe the impact — physical and personal — of that first shot. It felt like a meteor had struck the earth in front of me. A deep shock wave coursed through my body, the recoil rippling through my arms and right shoulder with astounding power. Being that close to an explosion of such magnitude — controlled and focused as it was — rattled me.
I composed myself and continued to fire round after concussive round, the puffs of acrid gunpowder smoke carried downrange by a powerful ventilation system. My accuracy gradually improved until it became easier to hit the target with the rifle from 25 yards than with the pistol from five.
It was exhilarating, but I never got comfortable firing it. I'm not sure what scared me more — the power of that weapon or the fact that I could have taken one home that day.
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i prefer he suckstart a .12ga
That's 70+ rounds... Plus pulling targets.
So what he’s saying is his testicles almost descended but not quite on that day. He’s still a man bun wearing soy boy.
He probably doesn’t want to shoot a Thompson Contender .44 Mag with hot deer hunting loads.
By the way, on a trip to the range with the family a few years ago I handed my then high school age niece and her friend my AR-15. They absolutely loved it. They took to it far more than any other gun and were quickly driving tacks with it. They were surprised to learn afterwards that THAT was the supposedly oh so scary AR-15.
I was too. Then I saw the byline, and just knew that he needed to be mocked.
>> The soy is powerful with this one.
Apt description.
That’s so gay.
I’ve got a sporterized No.1 Mk III in 45-70, 20 inch barrel. Pet load is 300 gr. FMJ at 2200 fps. Stout. That reporter might like this rifle as it only weighs 7 1/2 lbs.
I heard this story on WMAL this morning and kept thinking to myself, ba-boom from an AR-15? Fired those in the Navy at basic in 1977 and thought they were toys even then.
Oh yeh, the recoil from my AK74 is just agonizing. Hand that fool a Mossberg 500 tactical shotgun. That’s recoil. 😆
“BA-BOOM!!!!!”
Must’ve been a double-barrel AR.
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