yep, guns and bikes can be addictive.

but at least you don't have a wife or girlfriend, they can be real costly..........

momma needs a new 9mm!
lemme try it out first
lol

Yep, and some of us are way past funny when it comes to gun stuff.   Savage Accutriggers are pretty good out of the box and people disrespect the standard Savage trigger a lot because of the Accutrigger.

But them old style gun nuts have been working triggers for DECADES now and understand how to make a bright shiny ruby out of a sow's ear.

http://castboolits.gunloads.com/showthread.php?t=2735&highlight=stevens+7mm-08

I have guns with Accutrigger and the standard Savage trigger and have worked both -- maybe it is practice, but I can get a cleaner break and less over travel and creep out of a reworked standard Savage trigger than a reworked Accutrigger.   Accutrigger winds up with some laterial motion in it that cannot be removed safely.

Best trigger I own is a reworked Timmney on an old Swedish Mauser -- set up for target it breaks like glass.   I just wish the gun shot on par with the trigger as it is what it is, an old military rifle.

I have had good luck with Savage rifles both center fire and rimfire. Never shot one with the accu-trigger so can't comment on them. My Savage Mark II in 17Mach2 is deadly on them evil lil tree rats. I have to watch it, my girlfriend loves to go riding on the back of the bike and has asked me to teach her how to shoot.  

My final grouping was about 3-4"

At around 100 yards? & Youre okay with that? You otta be gigglin,, cuz thats just OOOOtayy right there.

The Harsh Rule of the Paper Plate

Shooting off hand, like you are likely really gonna have to be shooting while hunting, shoot at a deer no further away than you can hit a paper plate every single time.

How do you find this out?   Tack up some paper plates on trees going out along your shooting lane, pick one that you can hold the cross-hairs on while standing up resting the gun on nothing.  Just you and the gun.

Plug it 3 times, then move on in series to the plates further out until you miss one of the 3 shots.  Concentrate, shoot that plate until you get a total of 5 successful times in a row.

You now know your real "upright" hunting range for a deer.   It is nowhere near what the gun can do or you can do sitting down, leaning against a tree, etc, etc.   Sometimes it is shocking to you to find it out just what your upright paper plate range really is.

My paper plate range has come swooping down since my eyes got bad and my shoulders have started to hurt -- so far in now that I am ashamed to go shooting with young people who can hold and hit at ranges 3-5 times what I can do now.

I used to be able to shoot a open sighted .357 Ruger further accurately (kill a crow type accurate) further than I can shoot an open sighted rifle now.

My scopes must have readily refocusable near and far end bells and I have to fiddle with both to get a clear sight picture for any given distance.

And I used to be a really good shot ....      

or you can just staple the paper plate to the deer

Boule’tard wrote on 12/02/10 at 18:14:31:

I'm a member of the tinnitus club also. Yes, it is hell. Need to fall asleep to the TV with the timer set to kill the ringing. Penalties of my youth.

Enjoy your new Savage BH. Save those pumpkins and other fruit and veggie stuff to blow up during practice. Cheap canned soda and water jugs filled with kool-aid (or water/food dye) are fun too.

How about some gun pictures in this thread?