N/A Those D*mn Yankees!

[.20calguy]

I moved from Michigan to the Deep South, Alabama in 2016. Was informed last Sunday at my men’s Bible study, the difference between a Yankee and a D*mn Yankee. Yankees come to visit and a D*mn Yankees don’t go back. So these “good old boys” like duels? Let’s go! Just finished my dueling pistols. Walk 10 paces from each other and turn to hit the bottle. Loser is at the winners beck and call for the day. Knowing these ”gentlemen“ I think they would rather be shot dead with a powder burner than serve a D*mn Yankee for a day. I can’t lose.View attachment 415869View attachment 415870

I'm from Michigan too.
I had to let them know at our Bible study, that our family moved down here to teach them how to build rocket boosters for the Saturn project. Lol
These guys know better than to challenge me with a pistol!
I sight in some of their deer rifles for them, and can out shoot them using my pistol against their scoped deer rifles offhand, and they know it.
Lol

 

[Nutcracker]

I'm from Michigan too.
I had to let them know at our Bible study, that our family moved down here to teach them how to build rocket boosters for the Saturn project. Lol
These guys know better than to challenge me with a pistol!
I sight in some of their deer rifles for them, and can out shoot them using my pistol against their scoped deer rifles offhand, and they know it.
Lol

That's cause a lot of guys in the South only ever used a shotgun. Buckshot on deer and smaller shot for turkeys, rabbits, duck & quail. Glad you learned them something, LOL

 

[jkingrph]

I'm from Michigan too.
I had to let them know at our Bible study, that our family moved down here to teach them how to build rocket boosters for the Saturn project. Lol
These guys know better than to challenge me with a pistol!
I sight in some of their deer rifles for them, and can out shoot them using my pistol against their scoped deer rifles offhand, and they know it.
Lol

At what ranges. A lot of the guy's I know from college, on the rifle team learned to shoot positions with open sights. Back when I was much younger, 50+ years ago and had not gotten into using some scopes with high magnifications I could shoot some rather small 100 yard groups offhand, but not anymore. I find for offhand shooting, and I do a lot, nowdays with air rifles, I do better at short to med ranges with iron sights or very low power scopes. Now at age 78 I prefer irons over scopes for offhand shooting. Kneeling and sitting are now too hard of a position for me to get into and out of and my backyard is not well situated for prone, so I am offhand or a bench, a Caldwell stable table which is not rock steady. Most of my scopes are 6x and up, and I find 6x too much for offhand shooting, it just shows too much movement on my part. 2.5 and lower is better for me for offhand shooting.

 

[Moog]

This forum must be chock full of US population research fellows. Everyone seems to know all about everything in a state they aren't in. Reminds me of the conversation I had with a guy who used to live by me in Oregon. He moved nearly 30 years ago and hadn't set foot in in the state for 17 years, but somehow knew the place out in the sticks he used to live was ruined. Opinions, they are like...

It's called communicating with people that still live there. Of course your entitled to your opinion. Opinions are like......

 

[boscoebrea]

It's all your mind where you at, me, I'm real gone

 

[genericAGuser]

It's called communicating with people that still live there. Of course your entitled to your opinion. Opinions are like......

Just like the dozen poeple you still talk to out of 20 million citizens, I get it

 

[Moog]

Just like the dozen poeple you still talk to out of 20 million citizens, I get it

Yep, you got it!

 

[.20calguy]

At what ranges. A lot of the guy's I know from college, on the rifle team learned to shoot positions with open sights. Back when I was much younger, 50+ years ago and had not gotten into using some scopes with high magnifications I could shoot some rather small 100 yard groups offhand, but not anymore. I find for offhand shooting, and I do a lot, nowdays with air rifles, I do better at short to med ranges with iron sights or very low power scopes. Now at age 78 I prefer irons over scopes for offhand shooting. Kneeling and sitting are now too hard of a position for me to get into and out of and my backyard is not well situated for prone, so I am offhand or a bench, a Caldwell stable table which is not rock steady. Most of my scopes are 6x and up, and I find 6x too much for offhand shooting, it just shows too much movement on my part. 2.5 and lower is better for me for offhand shooting.

I started standing out of the crowd in shooting at a young age, but honestly I can out shoot myself with a good pistol against a scoped rifle off hand. The movement sucks the confidence, and once you loose the mind game its over.

 

[jkingrph]

I started standing out of the crowd in shooting at a young age, but honestly I can out shoot myself with a good pistol against a scoped rifle off hand. The movement sucks the confidence, and once you loose the mind game its over.

No argument there, especially at match airgun ranges, 10m. I honestly have not compared pistol vs scoped rifle, but just thinking for my shooting it would be close. Longer ranges a scoped gun with a low power scope for offhand shooting, but better yet a good set of aperture sights. I even prefer a double aperture. For good group shooting the front aperture needs to match the diameter of the target, For plinking I just center my target in that aperture and find it more accurate than a post or bead type front.