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Re: Some people should not have a gun

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09 November 2004, 03:10
<eldeguello>
Re: Some people should not have a gun
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His name wasn't "Lucky",...was it?



No, but it probably should have been!!
18 November 2004, 03:56
tdobesh
SCGunNut
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A couple months ago another rocket scientist came in and asked me for a box of 7mm Weatherby. He commenced to tell me about how he wasn't getting decent accuracy from his rifle. He then went back to the range. A little while later I walked back to get a drink out of the machine and he and our range guy were looking at his target. His 25 yard group was a decent group; if it had been shot at 200 yards. I figured the guy just couldn't shoot. A little while later he comes up front with the rifle in his hands with the range guy behind him. Rick {range guy} says "I'm gonna make sure his mounts are tight." When I saw the rifle from 15 feet away I said "Don't bother Rick, he's shooting the wrong ammo, that's a 7mm REMINGTON Mag!" The guy said "No it's not, it's a Weatherby!" His gun was a Vanguard VGL and I knew for a fact that gun was never chambered in 7mm Weatherby. We showed him 7mm Rem. Mag. on the chamber and finally showed him the error of his ways. He had spent a fortune on Weatherby ammo over the previous months trying to get his gun to shoot.




I remember reading this a while back and thought it seemed pretty odd. I'm just curious as to how he was even squeezing a 7mm Weatherby into a 7mm Rem. Mag. chamber since the whole front end of the wby case has larger dimensions. If he did actually get one of those chamber it wouldn't surprise me that he was having problems!