So another thread makes me ask this ?

[Gunfighter14e2]

That was my buddy’s in Finland. People have freaked out over the sear hole on it and told me to take down the pic before.

“Uh, it’s about 6000 miles away so I don’t think it will be an issue.” Pretty easy to get a machinegun collector’s license there, at least at the time. That one was semi auto though. No real point to having a mag-fed 7.62 NATO select-fire rifle, other than collection purposes. Did you have a Sendra lower?

Yes a Sendra lower. By coincidence a bud found another one but thanks to Ray-Gun he missed the filing date by about 2 weeks IIRC. He always had a hard on for mine, (he was a title II dealer) and many years later I sold it to him. He added it to his collection & when he retired, sold out and moved off shore but he made the comment, it was one of the few he missed the most as well. Only thing I did not like was cocking her, if it would have cocked like a 14 or AK it would have been ideal to me. Often wondered why a handle like the old Rem 1100's was never used, vs that C in the carry handle.

It liked Portuguese ammo the best and it would rival bolt guns of the day in semi auto with it. My 14's shot well but they could never touch that 10 no matter what ammo you fed them. Shot some US M59, M60, M80, and std 308 ammo thru her as well, but targets said Port M80 every time. I'd hate to know what she would be worth today.

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[LRRPF52]

Yes a Sendra lower. By coincidence a bud found another one but thanks to Ray-Gun he missed the filing date by about 2 weeks IIRC. He always had a hard on for mine, (he was a title II dealer) and many years later I sold it to him. He added it to his collection & when he retired, sold out and moved off shore but he made the comment, it was one of the few he missed the most as well. Only thing I did not like was cocking her, if it would have cocked like a 14 or AK it would have been ideal to me. Often wondered why a handle like the old Rem 1100's was never used, vs that C in the carry handle.

It liked Portuguese ammo the best and it would rival bolt guns of the day in semi auto with it. My 14's shot well but they could never touch that 10 no matter what ammo you fed them. Shot some US M59, M60, M80, and std 308 ammo thru her as well, but targets said Port M80 every time. I'd hate to know what she would be worth today.

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That one in the picture shoots lights-out at 150m, which is the standard distance they practice at in the Finnish Defense Forces. I ran out to the target and couldn’t believe how tight it grouped, I think with South African 7.62x51.

That rifle was so balanced and lightweight too, didn’t recoil much at all either. The Dutch know how to build rifles right, or at least they did in the late 1950s-1960s. Those things are old.

 

[Gunfighter14e2]

That one in the picture shoots lights-out at 150m, which is the standard distance they practice at in the Finnish Defense Forces. I ran out to the target and couldn’t believe how tight it grouped, I think with South African 7.62x51.

That rifle was so balanced and lightweight too, didn’t recoil much at all either. The Dutch know how to build rifles right, or at least they did in the late 1950s-1960s. Those things are old.

Yea when they first came out, they were tested to failure by the US Army. Most all of them failed in the same place Barrel, and at the same spot of the barrel. Right were your left arm would be (if right handed) it would trash your inter elbow area real good. Armalite changed the barrel material but a couple old uppers got shipped to the Congo. The two guys running them, were both left elbow damaged and were kicked to the curb, as they were never there according to uncle.

 

[JSDS]

Late reply...

Perfect weather is excellent, but those beautiful days are a bonus if you hunt or shoot year-round. Shoot in the rain until the targets fall off.

 

[sirhrmechanic]

Assuming you are,... Not a Gamer.

Do you always shoot in good/perfect weather, or do you train in the worst mother nature has to offer in your A/O? I ask this because thinking back, most of the locals who tell me they are not gamer's, never seem to be shooting when mother nature says hold my beer & watch this.
Here it seems to be if its, <45*F, windy, raining, snowing, or after sunset or sunrise, shooting is off their table.
How is it in your A/O?

From when I was shooting for PD… I have DOPE on my Sako to -30f.

Oh and…

-22F.

So… yeah… all kinds of weather.

Sirhr

 

[hlee]

From when I was shooting for PD… I have DOPE on my Sako to -30f.

Oh and…

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-22F.

So… yeah… all kinds of weather.

Sirhr

Yeah, but you didn’t walk from VT to the kill site, so your experiences are invalid…

 

[sirhrmechanic]

Yeah, but you didn’t walk from VT to the kill site, so your experiences are invalid…

Well, it was uphill both ways..

Sirhr

 

[hlee]

Well, it was uphill both ways..

Sirhr

No snow? I live in Houston and “uphill both ways stories” have snow. I award you no points.

(But srsly, I really enjoyed your write up of the trip.)

 

[lash]

No snow? I live in Houston and “uphill both ways stories” have snow. I award you no points.

(But srsly, I really enjoyed your write up of the trip.)

In my town it was also barefoot in January. Jus’sayin’.

 

[hlee]

In my town it was also barefoot in January. Jus’sayin’.

Well, I always had shoes growing up. But, if the stories are correct, shoes in the 50s and 60s were barely robust enough to last a school year. Both of my parents, apparently, spent the summer w/o shoes. Maybe this is why I always had shoes…

That said, we lived at the top of a bluff (Bluff Drive) and the school was at the bottom of the bluff. It was certainly uphill on the way home.

 

[lash]

Well, I always had shoes growing up. But, if the stories are correct, shoes in the 50s and 60s were barely robust enough to last a school year. Both of my parents, apparently, spent the summer w/o shoes. Maybe this is why I always had shoes…

That said, we lived at the top of a bluff (Bluff Drive) and the school was at the bottom of the bluff. It was certainly uphill on the way home.

Same here. Mid-state New York. Lived in the hills. Mountains to those in flatter states.

 

[GTOJOSH]

With a mountain between your house and the town with the school, it really is uphill both ways.

 

[carbonbased]

From when I was shooting for PD… I have DOPE on my Sako to -30f.

Oh and…

View attachment 8421091

-22F.

So… yeah… all kinds of weather.

Sirhr

Looks like a bit of scope bite there ow

 

[Ronws]

No snow? I live in Houston and “uphill both ways stories” have snow. I award you no points.

"And may God have mercy on your soul."

 

[Lowlight]

I dislike Inclement weather shooting, but a necessary evil

But shit happens,

 

[carbonbased]

I think it’s kinda fun when my mustache freezes to my stock.

But cold weather has made me weird.

 

[lash]

I think it’s kinda fun when my mustache freezes to my stock.

But cold weather has made me weird.

Are you sure it’s the cold weather?