Did some 22 shooting in high school also. Ithaca High School at that. Aced a few matches there.
Moved to the Garand in the Navy. I have a Garand now and shot it in some J C Garand matches but it’s not accurized and it and I don’t do as well now.
Did some fun shooting a month ago at the local fun gun shoot. Took my Polytech M-14 semi, even though the shoot was a machine gun shoot. Need to do some work on my M-1 Garand. Seems there is a little slop for and aft in the stock at least a quarter inch of back and forth. Not good for accuracy, or inducing more slop.
it and I don’t do as well now.
I know what you mean, none of us are getting any younger.
Took me awhile to get comfortable in the sitting position.
Didn’t even try offhand, probably couldn’t hold the rifle up for long much less control breathing. Shot about 80 rounds of 308 and got a nice yellow and blue shoulder. It was still fun.