LOVE old lever guns...
Had an old Marlin 1895G in .45-70 years ago. Shortened barrel, nasty little piece of hardware. Guy I bought it from hunted bear with it (it was a “Bear Hunting Gun” after all).
It let you know you were alive when you threw it up to your shoulder and touched one off, man...I became “the human recoil pad”. My buddies and I would shoot a box or two, and then stand around laughing and whining like Frenchmen for an hour with big red welts on the shoulders... We’d shoot it, then laugh like hell.
Sold it...sigh...she was a sweetie though. Ammo was 25 bucks a box back then for it. Probably totally ridiculous now.
Funny, when you think about it...some of the best times I’ve had in my life have been on the range, in tactical matches, three-gun matches, long-range shooting competitions, etc. Guns and gunnies everywhere.
And nobody - NOBODY - ever got killed there, ever.
I assume you had the correct gun for each individual situation?
The thought of firing a bear gun at a paper target...well, the mind reels! And of course, it is simply not possible for people to die on a range unless assault weapons or ‘Glocks’ are present.
But why would they be? They only kill people. They simply cannot hit paper. So unless you took one specifically to kill people, it stands to reason no one died. Fortunately for all involved, no one did. I am actually relieved you all were God-fearing men. You had the moral fortitude to resist the demonic spirits living within any Assault Rifles that may have been near by.
If only one child can be saved from the Assault Devils within black guns, no cost is too great to bear.
“LOVE old lever guns...”
I just pray that the Libs never learn the horror-filled truth about lever/bolt action guns.
While they distract the public with the Satanic Majesty of the AR and the like...all those thin stamped metal/plastic and spot welded parts that are known to jam, potentially saving peoples lives through design/manufacturing issues...
We know that the secret Lever Action and Bolt Action projectors of great happiness and rainbows are almost impossible to jam, are made of machined steel and sometimes exotic alloys and are available to nearly EVERYONE.
Scoped. And sighted.
For great justice!...Er, happiness and puppies!
And because they by nature have limited capacity, the ALF- Earth First! unapprived target/deerslayer of death and great happiness pulling those carefully assembled in America triggers has to, by DESIGN!!!, put more effort into choosing and hitting his/her paper target. Or Wombat.
Which means logically, that what he aims at, rather than sprays at, is likely to get critically hit, the gun not jam on reload and the target be hit again.
These are instruments of great terror! And happiness.
Unlike those AR derivatives. Which as we know, only hit people due to their inherent design flaws.