Renegade Plowboy

Girls Raised In The South. I like them sweet. I’m not real fond of the food all the other folk are squabbling over in this post.

I think you’re 5 is backwards. Loading table to unloading table would be through the firing line. So a cold range would span from the unloading table of one stage to the loading table of next stage. *****After reading that again, maybe you’re trying to clarify what the firing line is after the hyphen. My first thought when first reading was that after the hyphen you were clarifying when the firearms should be unloaded. Firearms was the first thing you mentioned in the statement, so my first thought was that after the hyphen was a clarified example of when the firearms should remain unloaded. After re-reading, it kinda appears you were trying to describe what the firing line is after the hyphen, and then adding the parentheses part as an example for the whole statement.

I’ve put down a many whistle pigs with my Savage in 17HMR. Head shot or neck/spine hit is only way to stop them with this little cartridge. Barely can find an entrance wound, never found an exit wound. Watching them fly/roll/tumble when hit is kinda comical. Good to around 125 yards. Remington 700 in 204 Ruger with Remington 32 grain bullets works well out to about 250 yards. My gun is extremely finicky on what it likes and this is the only round I’ve found so far that it likes. If blood leaves the entrance wound, never seen them get back to the hole. Where they flop, they stay. 22-250, 220 swift, 270 are all pretty awesome as well. I’d venture to guess that little thin skinned, muscle-less veggie-tarian critter you’re trying to get with that big ol fat bullet ain’t got enough skin resistance or body density to make that bullet expand. You need thicker skinned more muscular game for that. You need to stop pickin on that wimpy little critter with your big ol fat mean bullet!!

So how exactly do you get a person to realize just how serious a gun it is before they shoot it? She wouldn’t take us super serious. We went above and beyond in being serious with her and even dry firing it and explaining how to manage the recoil of what she wanted to shoot. She would regularly shoot everything else. She saw us shoot it first as well. She shot other guns with us at later times, so It didn’t ruin her from shooting.

Neighbor bought one early on in its release. Of course we all shot it. Yes, I was the first one to shoot it single handed with factory loads. It is awesome for a hand cannon! funny story. Neighbors sister was never afraid to shoot anything we would, normally .22-45 acp. She saw the 500 and just had to shoot it as well. While she was laughing and fussin at us for how much instruction, hand grip, recoil management tips etc that she was getting from us before shooting, nothing prepared us for the results of what would happen when we loaded a single round and let her fire it. She aimed like it was life or death and squeezed off that single round. When the gun fired, she got the biggest surprise ever! The barrel came up and just barely missed hittin her forehead, her eyes and mouth had gone full open, eyes bulging out! She dropped back 3 full steps while managing to keep the barrel pointed straight up and not making contact with her forehead. The third step back she got propped up by the broad side of a ford crown vic, that car was the reason she didn’t completely fall down! The expellatives that came flying from her mouth as she caught her footing, was barely heard over our laughter!!! She spun around, slammed the revolver on the hood of the crown vic, called us multiple choice words, and stormed off declaring she would never shoot with us again since we “did that to her on purpose”. The gun never hit her, she managed that, She never dropped the gun, it stayed in her hands till she slammed it on the car hood. She did hit the center of the target as well!!!