84 year old veteran sniper
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I'm a former Marine Sniper and am 72 and I still take my .30 Cal. M1 Garand Rifle and my 7.5X55 mm (actually it is also a .30 Cal. too but a much higher muzzle velocity.) Schmidt Rubin Sniper Rifle out to the range every chance I get.
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Well that is good to know, next time we have a gathering I will stay close to you and know I am in a safe place!
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Well that is good to know, next time we have a gathering I will stay close to you and know I am in a safe place!
Thank you for the confidence but those rifles you don't want to use in a crowd. One shoot from either one of them would go through about 5 people.
That's why I don't carry them around the country. ;-) ;-)
For crowd situations, I'd prefer my lever action 45-70. It's only effective up to 50 yards but it will bring down an Elephant at that distance.
Please don't think of me as "Dangerous Person", I have never hurt nor injured a living being with any of my 15 different weapons. I prefer target shooting and seeing how small of a pattern I can maintain. I don't have any Shot Guns because all you have to do with them is 'Point-n-Shoot'. I do have 'Snake Shot' for my Snub-nosed .38 that I've carried with me on Amateur Radio hill top events but I never used it as all the snakes I encountered were non-venomous and i would just move them out of the way.
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