Looking For A High Powered Rifle? Must See This Video

[d90king]

This video is hilarious. :D Hit the mute button because the music is awful.

http://www.walleyecentral.com/wcvideo/?action=view_video&uploadvideoID=182

[Rich-D]

That video production was a very painful experience for the subjects. You can pick out the people prior to the shot, who had little or no experience with shoulder arms. It was actually down right mean, although interesting to watch!

I bet some of the subjects joined the Brady Camp!


Rich

[flyfish]

Elephant gun with the impossible follow up shot! Rich said it right these folks had little or no experience shouldering a rifle.

[Rich-D]

Only the last one to fire, maintained control. He than proceeded to chamber another round.


Rich

[d90king]

If memory serves me, that is the 3rd most powerful rifle. I almost fell off my chair laughing but in fairness it is quite a load they were shooting.

You are correct that most of them had no idea what was coming and certainly were not shouldering it properly. :D

[flyfish]

Just glad it wasn't MY rifle bouncing off the floor!

[d90king]

Or my head bouncing off the wall and floor..... :)

[Carole-K]

That is kind of funny to watch. Particularly since it wasn't my shoulder being battered nor was it my gun being dropped repeatedly.

The whole set up bit reminds me of when my best friend from high school and I went out with her dad to learn to shoot a 12-gauge shot gun. He told her about 10 times to make sure it was held snugly to her shoulder. She didn't listen, in fact she kept saying, "I know, Dad." She ended up bruised and unable to use her arm for two days. Me? I didn't end up bruised, but I was shooting from a crouched position and it did knock me onto my seat. I did not, however, lose control of the shot gun - it remained pointed downrange through the entire humiliating and humbling ordeal.

[KCShooter]

While it is funny at first, I don't like it.
It reminds me of the jerks on youtube who give a new shooter a shotgun loaded with a 3" shell on their first outing, which I'm sure scares many away from shooting in the future.
I would like to shoot that rifle sometime. Maybe just once, though.

[d90king]

It reminds me of the jerks on youtube who give a new shooter a shotgun loaded with a 3" shell on their first outing, which I'm sure scares many away from shooting in the future.
I would like to shoot one sometime. Maybe just once, though.



When I first started shooting trap, my buddies got me with a hot load with a 12gauge. I remember thinking if this is trap....... Ill stay with .45's. It was funny though even though it was nothing like that.

It did look like a controlled environment they were in. I would still say that very few "shoulders" can handle that load they were shooting. It would be like trying to shoulder a 50bmg......

[d90king]

She ended up bruised and unable to use her arm for two days.

Sounds like me after shooting 8 rounds of trap wearing a t-shirt........ :lh:

[kenhwind]

Cartridges of the World under Proprietary Cartridges lists a 577 Tyrannosaur. That is a big brute of a cartridge for sure. Those nimrods are lucky they didn't hurt anybody.

Eight rounds of Trap-200 shots in rather quick succesion each relay. Did you notice that the pros wear shirts with leather pads or vests. I'd shoot three rounds and be ready for a cold one.

[d90king]

Eight rounds of Trap-200 shots in rather quick succesion each relay. Did you notice that the pros wear shirts with leather pads or vests. I'd shoot three rounds and be ready for a cold one.


I am a slow learner. :o I now have all the gear needed. :D Even with the gear you are correct, after around a 100 I am pretty spent and ready for a cold one myself.

[Frank]

When my wife and I took our first trapshooting lesson some ten years ago, she borrowed our coach's 20 gauge auto-loader. After 25 targets she was bruised and done for the day. Within a few months she had her new 12 gauge trap gun and was shooting 200 to 400 targets in an afternoon without a second thought. BTW, she's now an NRA certified instructor in shotgun.

I tend to agree with KCSHOOTER. It's really not that funny. It kind of plays into that whole "shooter as knuckle dragger" stereotype -- you know that old saw about the redneck's last words, "Hey, watch this." Country folk, and shooters, aren't like that.