Shoot the best for me? I had this thought yesterday as I was shooting a new-to-me .45 T/C Hawken picked up at a Gun Show a few weeks ago. I bought it as part of a combo deal with an unmentionable (rhymes with block) and think I got a good deal on the pair. I am into the T/C for somewhere between $225 and $250-$275 depending on how one portions out the money but close enough. Dang thing was loaded with a conical of some fashion and what looked like Pyrodex. It was easily enough pulled but seems to have left a rough spot down in the bore where the powder was. At any rate the gun is really nice otherwise and has the best trigger I own. It breaks clean and light and is really too light, I had a premature discharge shooting it off-hand yesterday but was safely on paper just not where i wanted to be. Still, my first two off the bench (25 meters) were 2” right. A slight sight adjustment had the next three touching or very close about 2” high. Should be perfect for our Woods Walk.
My other inexpensive rifle is also a .45, an old “Made In USA” CVA Mountain Rifle. I bought it a few years ago and am into it for $125 as I recall. Dang thing makes me look good is all I can say. I tied last year’s Turkey Shoot with it, being one of the few to hit the 100 yard gong. Too be honest, I can’t see well enough to shoot 100 yards, or even 25 with iron sights. So to do as well as I do with these guns makes me feel it has to be some magic baked into the rifles, it can’t be me.
My other inexpensive rifle is also a .45, an old “Made In USA” CVA Mountain Rifle. I bought it a few years ago and am into it for $125 as I recall. Dang thing makes me look good is all I can say. I tied last year’s Turkey Shoot with it, being one of the few to hit the 100 yard gong. Too be honest, I can’t see well enough to shoot 100 yards, or even 25 with iron sights. So to do as well as I do with these guns makes me feel it has to be some magic baked into the rifles, it can’t be me.
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