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My 13-year-old son, Chad, asked me to let him shoot the new double rifle in .470 N.E. I had him watch me first to see if he was okay with it and he was. I loaded up a couple snap caps and he gave 'em a shot. Then I gave him one in the right barrel with a snap cap in the left...'cause doubling might end up with him dropping the rifle...oh yeah, and it might hurt. He shot standing up so he could recoil with the gun. He fired the rifle and looked over his shoulder at me with a "what was that" look on his face. After he handed me the rifle he found he had a bloody nose. Good thing there was plenty of snow.  Good news is he shot quite well for off-hand at 25yds (bulls-eye)...and that target is now hanging on the wall in his room.  Dad did okay too, off-hand at 25 yds, with a right and left within an inch of each other and in the bulls-eye.  | ||
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Good shooting by your son. Looks like you have one great shooting rifle. Hope you have a comfortable couch - my bet is that Mamma will not be happy (if she finds out). SCI Life Member DSC Life Member | |||
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I hit my nose the first time I shot Paul's 577NE...threw snot all over the rifle....maybe that is why he never offered to let me shoot it again! Paul did you ever get that thing cleaned up? ****************************************************************** R. Lee Ermey: "The deadliest weapon in the world is a Marine and his rifle." ****************************************************************** We're going to be "gifted" with a health care plan we are forced to purchase and fined if we don't, Which purportedly covers at least ten million more people, without adding a single new doctor, but provides for 16,000 new IRS agents, written by a committee whose chairman says he doesn't understand it, passed by a Congress that didn't read it but exempted themselves from it, and signed by a President, with funding administered by a treasury chief who didn't pay his taxes, for which we'll be taxed for four years before any benefits take effect, by a government which has already bankrupted Social Security and Medicare, all to be overseen by a surgeon general who is obese, and financed by a country that's broke!!!!! 'What the hell could possibly go wrong?' | |||
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 You're his FATHER for Pete's sake. Are you UNAWARE that you are fostering an ADDICTION?!?!?!? Next he'll be asking to shoot 577NitroExpress's and Doc52's 500NE and 577NE and then Safarikid's 4 BORE!!!!!!!!!! Some one should inform the AUTHORITIES! What's next, books by Ruark and John Taylor, videos by Buzz Charlton, NRA membership, REGISTERING REPUBLICAN, VOTING FOR ANYONE other than HILARY RODHAM? {MARK MY WORDS, if she's elected for a first, then second term, she drops the "Clinton" name, for the good of all the femanazis.}? Jack OH GOD! {Seriously, we need the help.} | |||
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Wait, that was snot? Doc52 had it in his bunk the night before and I thought it was from him rubbing his...wait, I won't go there. 577NitroExpress Double Rifle Shooters Society Francotte .470 Nitro Express  If stupidity hurt, a lot of people would be walking around screaming... | |||
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Congratulations Chad! Way to Go! Welcome you both to the Double Rifle Shooters Soiety! Rusty We Band of Brothers! DRSS, NRA & SCI Life Member "I am rejoiced at my fate. Do not be uneasy about me, for I am with my friends." ----- David Crockett in his last letter (to his children), January 9th, 1836 "I will never forsake Texas and her cause. I am her son." ----- Jose Antonio Navarro, from Mexican Prison in 1841 "for I have sworn upon the altar of god eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man." Thomas Jefferson Declaration of Arbroath April 6, 1320-“. . .It is not for glory, nor riches, nor honours that we are fighting, but for freedom - for that alone, which no honest man gives up but with life itself.” | |||
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Doc52...for what it is worth I sleep with my Searcy too! At least when my wife is out of town...that cold steel reminds me of her! ****************************************************************** R. Lee Ermey: "The deadliest weapon in the world is a Marine and his rifle." ****************************************************************** We're going to be "gifted" with a health care plan we are forced to purchase and fined if we don't, Which purportedly covers at least ten million more people, without adding a single new doctor, but provides for 16,000 new IRS agents, written by a committee whose chairman says he doesn't understand it, passed by a Congress that didn't read it but exempted themselves from it, and signed by a President, with funding administered by a treasury chief who didn't pay his taxes, for which we'll be taxed for four years before any benefits take effect, by a government which has already bankrupted Social Security and Medicare, all to be overseen by a surgeon general who is obese, and financed by a country that's broke!!!!! 'What the hell could possibly go wrong?' | |||
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congrats to you and your son for some good shooting!!!!!!!!!!!!!! go big or go home ........ DSC-- Life Member NRA--Life member DRSS--9.3x74 r Chapuis | |||
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Chad, you are off to a great start. Some of my fondest memories with my son Kyle were of going shooting. He passed away last year at 14. I really enjoyed shooting with him, as I am sure your dad does with you. Keep up the good work! | |||
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My son used to flinch while shooting his 30-06. I let him shoot some 400gn loads in the 470 and he loved it! His 06 doesn't recoil at all now and the flinch is cured. He's been shooting tighter groups than me lately. That's a good thing though. | |||
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Well done for Chad... good shooting rifle to you!  Member NRA, SCI- Life #358 28+ years now! DRSS, double owner-shooter since 1983, O/U .30-06 Browning Continental set. | |||
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Chad way to go... Now you will be an African hunter.... Mike | |||
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Good shooting the both of you. Now is a good time to make application to join Double Rifle Shooters Society. We welcome you. I don't have aney records but your son may be the youngest member.   Bill Member DSC,DRSS,NRA,TSRA A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way. -Mark Twain There ought to be one day - just one – when there is open season on Congressmen. ~Will Rogers~ | |||
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Matt & Chadd, Never mind what my snot nosed Son has to say! I hope to see you both at the range as soon as the weather permits!!! Doc52 B. Searcy & Co .577 NE Double Rifle Shooters Society "Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well armed lamb contesting the vote!" Benjamin Franklin 1759 | |||
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that is great!!! I expect the boy will need a more friendly double of his own soon...how's about getting him a nice Chapuis 9,3x74R as a reward for good grades this semester? Rich DRSS | |||
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