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Moderate power firearms (Shooting/Firearms legend Ayoob advises "Everything in moderation")
Backwoods Home Magazine ^
| March 2008
| Massad Ayoob
Posted on 03/26/2008 12:05:56 AM PDT by Stoat
Moderate power firearms
By Massad Ayoob |
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Robert Ruark, the great American writer of the mid-Twentieth Century, was also a big game hunter. One of his most popular books, written on the latter topic, was titled Use Enough Gun. That has proven over the decades to be really good advice. That said, there are also a lot of people who use "too much gun." One of the last century's top authorities on guns and hunting was Jack O'Connor, a contemporary of Ruark's. O'Connor was an advocate of medium-powered hunting rifles: the .30-06 Springfield, the 7mm Mauser (also known as 7X57mm), and the caliber he is credited with popularizing, the .270 Winchester. He well understood that a gun with excessive power for the task would also "kick" so hard that many people wouldn't shoot well with it. He wrote in 1965 in his Complete Book of Shooting, "Men hate to admit that recoil bothers them. Again they feel that if getting belted by some hard-kicking gun bruises them and shakes them up they are lacking in masculinity. |
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TOPICS: Hobbies; Outdoors; Reference; Sports
KEYWORDS: bang; banglist; firearms; guns; massadayoob; reference
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posted on
03/26/2008 12:05:57 AM PDT
by
Stoat
To: DaveLoneRanger; Joe Brower
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posted on
03/26/2008 12:06:25 AM PDT
by
Stoat
(Rice / Coulter 2012: Smart Ladies for a Strong America)
To: Stoat
Most people who claim to love to shoot hard-kicking guns usually admit sooner or later that they don’t really enjoy it on a regular basis. The novelty wears off pretty quickly.
To: ozzymandus; Salamander; Stoat
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posted on
03/26/2008 12:16:20 AM PDT
by
shibumi
(".....panta en pasin....." - Origen)
To: Stoat
Everything in excess!
To enjoy the flavor of life, take big bites.
Moderation is for monks.
LAZARUS LONG
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posted on
03/26/2008 12:17:34 AM PDT
by
HuntsvilleTxVeteran
(McCain will send a self-abused stomped elephant to the DRNC.)
To: ozzymandus
I try to always use the “can I hit the target with it, and can I recover quickly from the first shot” as evaluation parameters :-)
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posted on
03/26/2008 12:26:51 AM PDT
by
Stoat
(Rice / Coulter 2012: Smart Ladies for a Strong America)
To: shibumi
Just enough kick for these shooters!ROTFLMAO!!!
Thanks very much for posting that...I had seen segments of it before but not that full version :-)
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posted on
03/26/2008 12:28:24 AM PDT
by
Stoat
(Rice / Coulter 2012: Smart Ladies for a Strong America)
To: HuntsvilleTxVeteran
Everything in excess!If something is worth doing, then it's worth overdoing :-)
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posted on
03/26/2008 12:42:37 AM PDT
by
Stoat
(Rice / Coulter 2012: Smart Ladies for a Strong America)
To: HuntsvilleTxVeteran
Everything in excess!
To enjoy the flavor of life, take big bites.
Moderation is for monks.
Indeed. Go with the Conan maxim - live deep while you live.
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posted on
03/26/2008 4:06:54 AM PDT
by
arderkrag
(Libertarian Nutcase (Political Compass Coordinates: 9.00, -2.62 - www.politicalcompass.org))
To: Stoat
I can hit the target consistently with my .475 Linebaugh, but it spends most of it’s time in my safe. I regularly carry a .45ACP, but lately a S&W 442 has taken up residence in my right front pocket.
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posted on
03/26/2008 4:41:10 AM PDT
by
P8riot
(I carry a gun because I can't carry a cop.)
To: Stoat
One ARC LIGHT mission I was on took out an elephant with a 750 lb. bomb. Elmer Keith would have been pleased.
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posted on
03/26/2008 5:33:22 AM PDT
by
Grut
To: Stoat
On the extreme side of this idea, I used to shoot at a range where the owner holstered a .22 automatic. I asked him why on earth did he carry that on his hip with all the other choices at hand.
He said since it was so light and without any recoil, he could put 4-5 rounds anywhere he wanted to in a instant: one target, three targets, etc. He followed up with, if that’s not enough, I disappear behind that door for a second and come out with something really nasty.
Can’t say I wholeheartedly agreed, but he seemed pretty comfortable with it.
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posted on
03/26/2008 5:49:07 AM PDT
by
Sax
To: ozzymandus
depends on why you’re shooting. i love shooting big kicking guns- .458mag, .45-90, .444marlin, .338, etc.
but if i want real accuracy, i’ll grab something that has light kick, or has been modified to reduce kick.
also, shooting big guns on a regular basis helps build up needed muscle to the point you don’t notice the recoil on lighter guns as much.
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posted on
03/26/2008 5:53:02 AM PDT
by
absolootezer0
(white male christian hetero married gun toting SUV driving motorcycle riding conservative smoker)
To: shibumi
Gosh! What caliber were they shooting?
To: Stoat
I can shoot my Garand all day long.
But about 10 rounds is all I can handle on the 30-06 Savage. Of course it’s only sighters and one or two rounds at a time for hunting.
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posted on
03/26/2008 6:41:15 AM PDT
by
CPOSharky
(Energy plan: Build refineries and nuke plants, drill for our oil, mine our coal.)
To: Grut
One ARC LIGHT mission I was on took out an elephant with a 750 lb. bomb. Elmer Keith would have been pleased.Elmer Keith liked the idea heavy bullets... Yes, I think that he'd be pleased with a 3,000,000 gr "bullet."
Mark
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posted on
03/26/2008 7:32:04 AM PDT
by
MarkL
To: longhorn too
.577 Nitro.
The round is designed to take down an elephant with one shot.
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posted on
03/26/2008 8:19:16 AM PDT
by
shibumi
(".....panta en pasin....." - Origen)
To: longhorn too
Addendum:
I’ve fired a lot of weapons, but the .577 is one I’ve never tried - nor do I intend to.
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posted on
03/26/2008 8:21:40 AM PDT
by
shibumi
(".....panta en pasin....." - Origen)
To: HuntsvilleTxVeteran
Nothing succeeds like excess.
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posted on
03/26/2008 8:25:31 AM PDT
by
Joe 6-pack
(Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
To: longhorn too
Just for fun I did some technical research.
To put things in perspective, the average 30.06 rifle weighs about 8 pounds and recoils with 15 foot/pounds of rearward energy.
The .577 Nitro being fired in the video weighs 15 pounds, and recoils with 70 foot/pounds of rearward energy.
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posted on
03/26/2008 8:49:45 AM PDT
by
shibumi
(".....panta en pasin....." - Origen)
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