h1

Basic Weapons Handling Guidelines

October 24, 2007

Many of my buddies love fire arms and their collections would make many left-wing, anti-NRA, granola eating, tree hugging, burned-out hippie cringe in mortal terror.  Below is from an email forwarded to me showing what NOT to do when matching your new expensive scope to your costly deer rifle at a range.

The guideline for you folks who don’t get to “throw lead down range”.  Never leave anything in the barrel when pulling the trigger.

deer rifle

The marksman in question must have just purchased his rifle and inserted the device (above) to align his scope and bore. The bore sight costs approximately $140.00

deer rifle 1

Friends tell me that the bore sight doesn’t necessarily have to be screwed in or tightened down in the end of the barrel. The rifle cost approximately $1,200.00

deer rifle 2

Notice how the barrel split all the way down to the hand grip from the force of the blow back. The new scope he was trying to align costs approximately $550.00

deer rifle 3

Kind of difficult to get the rifle in the case now, huh?  Cost of his brand new bag, probably $50.00.

deer rifle 4

Cost of hospital bill?  Somewhere in the neighborhood of $5,000.00.  I feel bad for the guy, really.  Rough day, huh?

4 comments

  1. Someone didn’t read the instructions…


  2. FYI: There are plenty of us ACLU card-carrying, tree-hugging, socialist-tendency liberals who shoot too. Hopefully with better firearms handling practices than this poor guy.


  3. Hah, Doggo, I think plenty might be a pretty big overstatement. But, glad to see there’s at least one.


  4. [...] you leave the LASER boresighter in while shooting? Pictures worth a thousand words Basic Weapons Handling Guidelines Provide for the Common Defense __________________ [...]


Leave a Comment