I have sinned, forgive me?

[jtmattison]

I fired a centerfire rifle today.
I know what you're thinking, Huntin has lost his mind.
Not true, at least not true today.
I got my dad's old .30-06 a couple weeks ago and gave it a much needed cleaning, it was rusted and gummed up pretty bad in places.
All he did for the last 25+ years was take it out of the cabinet, shoot a deer and put it back in the cabinet. Never cleaned it.
I was surprised the bore was still perfect. Just had rust here and there.
I cleaned it up real nice, put a scope on it and took it to the range.
The weather was horrible today so there was no danger of running into a fellow muzzleloader today.
I shot her a few times to dial in the scope and that was all.
Looking at having a centerfire for when I go back to Alaska.
Of course I will hunt BP up there but there are situations where a centerfire is nice to have around.

There, I have cleansed my soul.

Huntin

 

[Greg Walden]

I guess I did that particular "sin" today too.

I had the kids with me at the range today, while I was squintin' and tryin' to punch holes in 3x5 cards 50 yards away - too few holes in most of them, but finally got three in a row and called it quits. :crackup:

While I was making smoke, they were shooting their .22 and my .32 Walther PPK. Then I let them open up with big stuff - I pulled out their great-grandfather's Model 1917 Eddystone "Enfield" that he carried in WWI. Pretty neat to watch the 4th generation of Walden men shoot that thing.

Greg

 

[Slamfire]

Take two suppositories and call me in the mornin'. :crackup: :crackup:

 

[Zonie]

The Force from the Dark Side is strong.

Darth Vader had a Centerfire Rifle too!!

Stand strong Luke!

Oh, hell. I might as well confess.
When I go to the range I usually take at least one of those modern things along.
Well, most of them aren't modern exactly, unless you consider the .45-70 Trapdoor, Pedersoli Sharps or Uberti High Wall new. Style wise, the newest is the High Wall, and it's design is 120 years old.
Even the .22 LRs I take aren't exactly new.
After tenderizing my shoulder with the .47-70, a little Stevens Favorite or a Remington #4 .22 usually finishes off the shooting.
Something really neat about those little single shots!
Maybe shooting a kids rifle is just going back to a simpler time,.... or hanging onto the childhood I never left. ::

 

[TANSTAAFL]

Keep the faith, you are not alone. Nice cool (for here) day so wife & I took the little scoped Ruger 10-22 out in the desert and blazed away near a half gallon pail of odd brands of old ammo.

Have to admit, such sinning is fun. The only bad thing was at 50 yards the wife's groups were smaller than mine. Danged .22's, women having no fear of recoil, concentrate on their shooting and make men look rather sorry at such times.

 

[Trina]

Out a Huntin,

Its never a sin to shoot your dads guns...even if they be centerfires :haha:

women having no fear of recoil, concentrate on their shooting and make men look rather sorry at such times.

:crackup: :crackup: :haha:

This is why I shoot black powder guns... no fear of recoil,.. I like 22 also.. :haha:

 

[Pork Chop]

Its never a sin to shoot your dads guns...even if they be centerfires :haha:

Amen to that! When I graduated college, my father died. I was comissioned and a couple of weeks later I had to head out to my first duty station. To cut to the chase, I thought my father's guns (and mine too!) were lost as I could not find them on my return home. My mother had hidden them. When she passed, my sister cleared the house and found the guns. I was SOOOO grateful. I am glad that the first deer that I took was with my father's 12 gauge automatic.

I was also the first person to fire my father's Hawken rifle as he never shot it. I have very little to remind me of my family, so the guns hold a special place for me... :redthumb:

 

[Flint50]

"Let he who is without sin in this matter cast the first stone!"

Heck, I have lots of guns besides muzzleloaders. They become like old friends to me.
Some were handed down from my Dad and Grand Dad. Some I've had since I was a kid. I still have my Stevens 20 ga. singleshot I bought with paper-route money so I could hunt with my Dad.($21.00 as I recall)
These guns DO NOT take away from my love of front-stuffers tho.... :m2c:

 

[roundball]

"Let he who is without sin in this matter cast the first stone!"

Heck, I have lots of guns besides muzzleloaders. They become like old friends to me.
Some were handed down from my Dad and Grand Dad. Some I've had since I was a kid. I still have my Stevens 20 ga. singleshot I bought with paper-route money so I could hunt with my Dad.($21.00 as I recall)
These guns DO NOT take away from my love of front-stuffers tho.... :m2c:

Same here...have a number of centerfires that would be difficult to part with...but at the same time, in practical terms, I'm not getting any younger, and won't be traveling the world on exotic hunting trips requiring top quality rifles and scopes to shoot something over on another mountain...I'll just be hunting a few more years in NC woods after deer and squirrels with flintlocks.

So I listed all the centerfires in priority order last year, and began selling...sold a half dozen already...need to sell at least another half dozen

 

[musketman]

Et tu, Musketman?

I have a .22 Hornet that shoots like house-a-fire...

 

[Gary]

I've sinned many times too but I burn incense and sprinkle powder (black and smokeless separately) to offer my apologies to the Chuting Gawds. :master:

 

[bob1961]

forgive father fore i have sinned also :master: .................bob

 

[USMCsniper]

Don't wory I think we have all done it. Hell I love all guns from hand grounes to the H&K G36.

Look at it this way when the 30-06 first came out it was loaded with black powder, and you could handload it with BP, I have done it with my 8mm Mauser (the 8mm Mauser ammo it pretty much a 30-06 necked up to 8mm). :thumbsup:

 

[Slamfire]

Don't wory I think we have all done it. Hell I love all guns from hand grounes to the H&K G36.

Look at it this way when the 30-06 first came out it was loaded with black powder, and you could handload it with BP, I have done it with my 8mm Mauser (the 8mm Mauser ammo it pretty much a 30-06 necked up to 8mm). :thumbsup:

I think yore confusin' the 06 with the .303. eace:

 

[Stumpkiller]

Or the Sainted 30-40 Krag. I have one of those which belonged to my Grandpa, that I blow the dust off occasionally.

My current "Schimmel" barn gun is a Mosin-Nagant which some kind Finnish smith saw fit to rebarrel with a 26" Sako barrel back in the 40's. Not a looker, but she shoots plum square. A 7.62x54R makes a kick-arse woodchuck gun. ::

I'm also kind of sweet on centerfire pistols. We all have our skeletons in the closet. :redface:

 

[Powderhorn]

I have sinned too. I've been having a secret affair with a .17 rimfire. That little 17gr bullet shoots almost flat at 100 yds and only drops 8-10 inches at 200. I'ts unbelievable how much fun it is to shoot. One of my buddies fired it the other day and promply went out and bought one.
Hornman

 

[USMCsniper]

Ok, but the mauser and 7.62x54 Russian were. ::

 

Shooting centerfires and rimfires is okay . But stay away from inlines :: . They are a perversion and will cause hair to grow on the palms of your hands , and can even make you go blind eventually . :blah: :crackup:

 

[merdean]

Unlike the rest of you, I have not sinned this week!!! I have not commited this sin in 10 years!!!That is because some bad people used a chain saw to make holes in my house in order to get the 750lb safe out the window. (They wrapped a chain around it and pulled it out with a pickup truck.) :cry: They left most of my muzzleloaders alone. They were hanging on the wall rack. All the centerfires were in the safe. I have not replaced any of them. No need. My muzzleloaders do it all!

But I have been looking at catalogs from Henry, Marlin, Ruger, Winchester and a few others. So maybe I am not as pure as this started. :redface: :cry: I have sinned in thought if not in deed. :boohoo: :master:

Forgive me, my fellow muzzleloading friends. I ment no harm. If you decide to cast me out, please use a good mold. :blah:

 

[Tahquamenon]

That is because some bad people used a chain saw to make holes in my house in order to get the 750lb safe out the window. (They wrapped a chain around it and pulled it out with a pickup truck.) :cry: They left most of my muzzleloaders alone. They were hanging on the wall rack. All the centerfires were in the safe. I have not replaced any of them.

Really sorry to hear about your loss.

This happened to a good friend of mine. He had his safe on the first floor where it could be seen from an exterior window. Thieves cut the wall with chainsaws and promptly loaded the safe into a truck and off they went. Made off with about $30,000 worth of firearms, jewelry and personal documentation.

If you have a basement, that is the best place for your gunsafe. Also pays to bolt/anchor it to the floor if possible.