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Hazard's Guns

Here's where I'll post pictures of my guns and ammo I use, and what I like to do with my guns. To be honest though most I get to do with my guns is just find something no one cares about (bottles, cans, wood, whatever) to shoot at.

Henry Classic Lever Action

My first gun. I loved the cowboy movies when I was little. I used to get a long cardboard tube, usually one that had been for wrapping paper, and hide behind the couch and aim at the TV and pretend that I was involved in the shoot out. So when I first saw a commercial for Henry I really wanted one. Yeah Winchester is the one in the movies, but Henry was used in the civil war and we wouldn't have Winchester without it. So I wanted the Original model, but my parents said no. But I still love mine, except you have to load it from the muzzle end because they didn't think to make it so that you can load from the receiver like you can with the Winchesters. I thought they started doing that a couple years ago, but looking at the models on their website I guess they haven't. On one hand I think they should start doing that, just so consumers (including me if I ever revive my old interest in western guns) can have an easier time, but on the other hand it would make my Henry even more useless. Why use a gun you have to reload by hand from the muzzle end when you can you have guns where you can reload up to 25 rounds from just in front of the trigger? Or why use that first gun when you can get one just like it but load from the receiver? That's why I just don't use my Henry hardly anymore...

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Remington 870

It belonged to my buddy Matt. He hadn't even met me until he came over to give me the gun. He gave me skeet, coyote, and turkey chokes. I always keep the yote choke in it. It's my second favorit gun to take apart (first is the Henry) but probably because I'm most familiar with it. I don't really know what to say about this gun performance-wise, since I haven't been shooting it much, and I never have any issues with it when I do. I just got a lot of memories of shooting it with Matt. I miss him.

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Ruger 10/22 (#1)

This is honestly the only version of the 10/22 that I even like. It's probably because 10/22 was the club gun I had to use before I got my own rifle, but all the other models look to me more like baby's first semi-auto. This one I have I've been told is some special or limited edition. I can't even find it on Ruger's 10/22 page. I got this gun when a friend who does shotgun sports wanted me to try Action Pistol and Rifle shooting. I was hoping it would be one of those things where you go through a maze with lumber and barrels and tires and shit. It's not, it actually sucks. It's just shooting at a set of five targets, and you have to save the one marked with red for last, and you just see how fast you can do it. You have to do it five times over with each gun you bring, and each mag can have up to 10 rounds (and only 10, so they require you to use mags that allow you to count the rounds, which is why I have so many transparent Ruger mags). And there's a bunch of random shit that will add to your time, like shooting the red-marked target before you're supposed to. And if your gun jams or doesn't cycle you get to call a mulligan and start over once. I didn't like it. It wasn't fun. But I'm glad I at least tried it. I got three guns out of it. This was the first rifle I got, and it wasn't really cycling right, so we had to take it back to get worked on, and my parents got #2 as a backup.

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Ruger 10/22 (#2)

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Sig Sauer P322

I can't say I'm as attached to this one honestly. We really got off on the wrong foot, me and this gun. I couldn't shoot it for shit and my action shooting coach would get on me saying I wasn't shooting it right, so he took it and tried shooting, and he realized that for some reason it wasn't accurate, or precise. So he looked at it and there was lead fouling that we couldn't clean out. So we took it back to the store and they shipped it to the factory to get the barrel replaced. Turns out you're supposed to clean every new Sig you get because they don't do that after trial firing it. Mine's fine now, but most I do is wave it around and aim it unloaded. And I don't know how model numbering works at Sig (or any company really), but 322 isn't far from 320,and the P320 is notorious for going off on its own. So much for "guns don't kill people". Thanks, Sig Sauer. It's like they're trying to create a pistol version of Gary Paulsen's "The Rifle". That book was disappointing. It's basically about a one-of-a-kind flintlock from before the Rev War that goes off on its own, kills someone, gets ditched only to be found by some unsuspecting stranger, and then it repeats the cycle. All I remember is that at the end it's mounted on a wall, but it goes off and shoots through a house and kills a boy. So maybe Gary was trying to write a story to teach people "for the love of God to not leave a loaded gun in your house", which is sound advice, but I read the book only once, years ago, and I felt like he trying to tell an anti-gun story. But I think he would hunt a lot, so the first possibility is more likely. Anyway, Sig Sauer is just really disappointing. They're treating gun making the way Gamefreak is treating the development of main series Pokemon games. And people bring up the fact they have a military contract like this makes things extra disappointing, which on the surface makes sense, but the thing is I've had veterans tell me that "military-grade" isn't as high quality as it sounds. If the military uses it, it might as well have been made in China, basically. So I think the military contract thing makes more sense than people would expect. Sig's website describes the P322 as "The Most Advanced Highest Capacity 22 Pistol In Its Class", which I don't even know what that means, I don't know what it's class is, so for whatever that's worth I guess. All in all, I don't hate my Sig, but I definitely don't understand anyone who says they love theirs.

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Mosin-Nagant

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