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To: Ancient Drive

Full auto is so over rated it is not funny.

The last time I was at the KD range I had to shoot 9 of ten round at the 500 yard line in less that a minute because the target trolley malfunction and it took 8 minutes to fix it. I loaded the rifle by hand one round at a time with the magazine in place and scored all nine shots in the black (torso sized target) at 500 yards.

If I had been on full auto I might have scored one on the guy next to me’s target.


14 posted on 11/01/2008 4:31:14 AM PDT by usmcobra (There are 665,000,000 reasons why Obama should show his eligibility to be president!)
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To: usmcobra

Full auto has its uses, and none of them are at 500 yards. Inside 50 ft though it can be quite useful. That said, I agree with the earlier poster who stated that when full auto IS needed a shotgun with 00 buck is a great choice.

I have a couple of SKSs and couple of very accurate bolt actions. I don’t have a good shotgun for that type of work though, just a long barreled Browning BPS. I might have to remedy that.


60 posted on 11/01/2008 5:39:41 AM PDT by SampleMan (Community Organizer: What liberals do when they run out of college, before they run out of Marxism.)
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To: usmcobra

I was in the Marine Corps ( Korean War)and to my knowledge,at that time, we did not have any small caliber weapons that were full auto and that was the very reason, it compromised the accuracy.


65 posted on 11/01/2008 5:47:08 AM PDT by depenzz (Get the most out of life, its not a dress rehearsal)
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