New pics of the Colt

[Mark@Sea]

Maybe it is actually exotic water buffalo horn... yeah, thats' it.

She shot it twice, huh? I'm tellin' ya, get the uberti 1862 or 1849... then she'll be saying "Dang it Mike" with the rest of us...

Home in a month, if all goes well, and will have a month at home instead of a couple of days. Looking forward to it. Unfortunately, I have a wedding to attend on the normally scheduled shoot weekend. Maybe we can slide the shoot a week...

Any chance you can make it, XD? I think this time, I'm going to bring my Garand down and see if I can still figure out which end barks and which end bites.

[xd shooter]

No probably not Mark, Angel says I have to stop spending funds so we can have some cash for the trip to Seattle in 3 weeks.

I am purchasing the Enfield.303 from the Rabbi this week Yall have any info on this one?

This buy has her in an uproar for some reason.

[Mark@Sea]

The Enfield is known for a smooth bolt - not as good as the Krag rifle, but pretty darn good. The action is very strong, too. Buy yourself three or 4 boxes of S&B ammo - you are going to reload for it (a Lee Classic Reloader) and the S&B brass is pretty good. You'll want to pick up some .311 bullets for the reloading, eventually. A lot of folks will tell you to use .308, but it just rattles down the bore and accuracy goes to hekk.

Enfields can be reasonably accurate, and were built to tolerate a lot of rough handling. The saying was that in WWI the Germans had the hunting rifle, the Americans had the target rifle, and the Brits had the battle rifle.

My Enfield was actually made by Savage, for lend-lease. The sights are somewhat less than optimal, but I just don't have the heart to modify it when I have several rifles that are already better shooters with better iron sights.

[Mike.357]

Maybe we can slide the shoot a week...

pick a date. I believe if you can be there, moving it a week one way or the other is the correct thing to do.

[towerclimber37]

I'm down with that! I haven't used my 6 days off every 6 weeks, so I'll be able to go I think...

I'm taking the 24th off as a personal day so that Julie and I can have a 3 day anniversary weekend.

XD,

when you take down the bolt on that enfield, inspect the firing pin spring (its a steel spring and is known to wear out and break)..check the face of the bolt, etc for cracks, pits and a out of round firing pin hole.

other than that, there's not much more to inspect.

I loved my enfield when I had it (I left it at a buddy's house YEARS ago after a shoot and haven't been back to texas to pick it up yet.)

Mark is right....303 is kind of a pain to buy these days so you'd do well to get a good amount of brass built up and then reload them.

speaking of reloading,

Mark, I met a guy (very nice) who is going to sell me 1000 rounds of .308 for .25 cents a round in return for some handgun marksmanship lessons I gave is 13 year old son out at signal mountain.

he also has 500 rounds of match ammo that he's willing to part with cheaply, since his son wants a different caliber rifle to shoot with.

I WILL of course, have them in the monster closet before you can say don't

[Mike.357]

so are we talking about the 26th of July as the date for the new and improved July Kingsport Shoot?

[Mark@Sea]

Yes, 26 July... Sorry to disrupt the schedule. Mars, you getting this? Anyone interested in informal match rifle instruction? Use of sling, that sort of thing?

Elliott, by all means, get the ammo!

The ammo I got for the MN's is supposed to be very good stuff - no 2x4's required. We'll see, if someone wants to shoot one. I intend to shoot my Garand.

XD, sorry to hear you're headed to the pacific northwet. Hope the trip is short and safe.

Mike, howsabout a 'battle rifle' shoot? I can pull out a few surplus rifles that folks can try if interested... lemme see here...

Mosin Nagant

Swedish Mauser

Enfield

Yugo Mauser

Garand

M1A

M1 Carbine

FN-FAL

[Mike.357]

battle rifle sounds like a great theme!

match rifle instruction wold be great too.

I will PM Mars to make sure he gets the date change for the July shoot.

[Marswolf]

OK, I'll post the shoot as the 26th.

[Mark@Sea]

Mars is Da Man.