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Sighting in your new Christmas Rifle
Sighting in your expensive new Christmas rifle
1. Shiny new, high-powered deer rifle..............$ 1,200.00 2. Quality, high-powered scope........................$ 550.00 3. Bore sighting device.....................................$ 140.00 4. Hospital Visit......................$ 4,893.00 5. Forgetting to remove the bore sighting device prior to actually shooting the damned thing? ................ Priceless http://www.clubcobra.com/photopost/data/500/bore1.jpg http://www.clubcobra.com/photopost/data/500/bore21.jpg http://www.clubcobra.com/photopost/data/500/bore3.jpg http://www.clubcobra.com/photopost/data/500/bore4.jpg |
man, that's a nightmare. wierd how things can go wrong so quick. hope he gets better although he might have developed a bad flinch.
reminds me of the time i got off a mid shift and went out to chronograph a trap gun that used a release trigger, forgot about the release trigger and shot my chronograph, went inside and laid down. |
Ouch!
Seems like something you would see on mythbusters. |
Not as bad but, we had a fella at the deer camp lay across the hood of his truck for a little target pratice, he shot a hole in the hood!, oh yeah! we 'he hawd' him for a long time.
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Had a friend put his 7mm mag rifle in the rack behind the seat of his pickup and he pulled the trigger. Forgot that he had chambered a round.
He then had a nice hole to mount his CB whip intenna. |
There are accounts across time of everything from lasers to frozen mud that has caused things like this.
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I think I have seen this before, so maybe a few Christmas's ago? **) That is one durable bore-sighter. :MECOOL: I fired my buddies .357 while leaning across the hood of his '70's Landcruiser. :rolleyes: Once. :eek: I'll never do that again. The hearing in my right ear has never been the same. Must have come close to shattering the flat windshield. :o Wes ... |
I leaned across a ford pickup and fired a 30.06 at a deer, the report left a dent the size of my fist on the top of the hood.
My parents owned a rifle and trap range, I have seen a few gun failures but never as bad as that. What is wrong with sighting in rifle the old fashioned way by actually shooting it? |
We used our bore site to get on paper, then we tweak the scope to shoot bulls eyes.
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I'm in the auto insurance claims industry and see 5 or 6 like this EVERY YEAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! David |
Can't see if it's a bolt action but if it is he should have simply removed the bolt and sited through the bore with his eye. That's how I started with my Remington BDL. Then mount the scope and fine tune it.
Do I see a Darwin Award coming? Roscoe |
I wonder how bad the guy was hurt?
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Hope the guy is OK..it's a real shame to get hurt doing something kind of stupid like this..
I belonged to a gun club for many years and most memebers operated their guns in a very safe and respectful manner, but at times especially if booze was in control..things went wrong. Hope this wasn't the case. Bill |
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