Some time ago we were discussing scope mounts on semi autos. I mentioned that I ripped my little finger nail off on one once and a few people couldn't quite grasp the mechanics of it. Any other questions?

Remembering it still makes my skin crawl.

ouch BAR by Rod Henrickson, on Flickr

Underhanded is how you charge a .30 caliber Browning, a .50 caliber browning, and a .303 caliber Maxim. The handles on those come back and down and will rip free of an underhand grip without injury if the gun gets away from you.

But a sporting BAR is charged overhanded.

Train as you fight. Charge everything underhanded. Sometimes you lose a nail.

Yeah, them big 'ole ring clamp screws will get you. Best to face them opposite the charging handle.

If you were to charge this BAR overhanded it would rip the hide off your pointer finger. Mount the rings with protruding knuckle and nail rippers on the opposite side.

that looks almost as much fun as a second case of "Garand Thumb"...

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Originally posted by dpcd:
Train as you fight. Charge everything underhanded. Sometimes you lose a nail.

Everything but a MK19....most don't have em to use though.

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Originally posted by Idaho Sharpshooter:
that looks almost as much fun as a second case of "Garand Thumb"...

Speaking of thumbs.
I had yet another turkey in this spring with his right hand in a body cast Idaho Sharpshooter. Me being nosy and forever putting my foot in my mouth, I had to ask him what gave with his plasticized appendage. It would seem that our hero was shooting his Ruger Mark II pistol with the conventional two handed grip when a revelation became upon him. He surmised that he could probably convert the affair to a straight pull bolt action of sorts by simply putting his thumb on the bolt and applying judicious pressure during firing. I guess it actually works quite well but follow up shots take about six months as it also breaks your thumb in a couple of places and discombobulates your wrist pretty bad. This isn't the first guy I've run across that's tried this, dontchaknow.

I'm betting it won't be the last either.

It's about 1200 miles from Edmonton to Seattle, my home town. Do you think that is sufficient?

Try taking the ejectors out of a double rifle, that will take a spoonful of meat out of the old hand..It lends new meaning to the word "ping", velocity is about 3000 FPS, great penetration and Sectional Density..

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Originally posted by Brice:
It's about 1200 miles from Edmonton to Seattle, my home town. Do you think that is sufficient?

I don't think it's possible to be (far enough from Edmonton). And Yellowknife. Yellowknife is a weird fawking place. Fairplay Colorado is mighty strange too. The Ozark Mountains have nothing on Fairplay !

I was thru Fairplay last week on a little roadtrip with #2 son. It did have a strange feel about it.

The only thing strange about Colorado anytown is the folks are all chewing Gummy Bears, it does seem to make them different!! Walsenburg has a closed down theater, two or three resturants of sorts, and pot houses all over the the place, and a wiedo on every corner selling something..Whatever you do don't stop anyone and ask directions to anyplace... literally!

There must be some attraction to a shooter placing his/her thumb on the back of a Ruger Mark 22 bolt. Back when I had live fire with handguns as part of the hunter education course, it seemed at least one student in every class would pick the gun up, slide in the magazine, push the release, then while taking aim would slide their thumb up behind the back of the bolt- generating an immediate cease fire.

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Originally posted by Ray B:
There must be some attraction to a shooter placing his/her thumb on the back of a Ruger Mark 22 bolt. Back when I had live fire with handguns as part of the hunter education course, it seemed at least one student in every class would pick the gun up, slide in the magazine, push the release, then while taking aim would slide their thumb up behind the back of the bolt- generating an immediate cease fire.

That's the one bad thing about three dimensional thinking. It takes time and ambition and people would rather skip right over action, reaction, consequence and jump straight to ambulance. I think it has something to do with your new, American Socialist way of life. Liberal thinking and free health care come to mind.

Rod
We moved to the Ozarks about four years ago after an Air Force retirement and there is definitely some weird people here. I have heard the saying "Ya ain't from around here, are ya boy" more than once.

Steve.........

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Originally posted by Steve E.:
Rod
We moved to the Ozarks about four years ago after an Air Force retirement and there is definitely some weird people here. I have heard the saying "Ya ain't from around here, are ya boy" more than once.

Steve.........

Yeah, I know that feeling Steve. When I was going to school at CST in Lakewood Co. about 35 years back, me and a buddy had decided to go fly fishing on the Platte river out close to the town of Bailey. We were fishing a bend in the river and all of a sudden this big guy wearing bib overalls and bearing a striking resemblance to George Utley off the Newhart show, "except he was carrying an old Colt 1911 on his hip" materialized out of nowhere. He walked up to us and dryly asked: "Whatchall-a-doin?" We replied that we were fishing. He gave it a long, hard, brown study and finally with great importance he said: "Yalled be from up-town." And then he just turned around and walked off and we never saw him again.

To this day I'm still slightly confuzzled about that whole incident. I'm sure there must have been some sort of deep and mystic meaning to all of it. But I'm neither deep, nor mystic and not all that bright either. Basically, I'm more of your garden variety monkey, so it was rather wasted on me.

But it has kept me puzzled for 35 years.

Years ago I saw a guy shoot a 1911 with a two handed grip where his left thumb wrapped over his right, and just behind the slide. When fired the slide came back and carved two grooves in his thumb. He turned white as a sheet from the pain and blood.

Is it possible to simply turned the rings around to where the knob is on the other side?

Saw a tv show about shooting recently. Out host/expert was shooting a revolver with his left index finger right at the cylinder gap. Made me whence. Google revolver injured hand or finger if you want to see some gore.

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Originally posted by Scota4570:
Saw a tv show about shooting recently. Out host/expert was shooting a revolver with his left index finger right at the cylinder gap. Made me whence. Google revolver injured hand or finger if you want to see some gore.

Mythbusters did an experiment with cylinder gap, the results are basically what you'd expect: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nucg5VAff4c

There is a reason why revolving rifles and shoulder stocks for revolvers never caught on. LOL