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Check out the brass catching skills of the MIL Sniper...
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I NEED one of those..
Burn??? His fingers are so calloused he juggles hot brass
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I remember back during the rifle trips with the scouts, some of the guys would try and catch brass as it was ejected from other people's rifles. It was pretty entertaining when someone snagged a .30-06 round out of the air...the fact that the guy in the vid is doing it with .338 is nuts
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Notice he's letting them go PDQ. One of them he just swats down.
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This is true. I have an FN M1950 .30-06 bolt gun and the brass come out of that warm at best.
Another time I was shooting a Garand in a high power match, my first round of offhand went straight up and came down and lodged between my glasses and eyelid. Uncomfortable to say the least. The burn kinda made me look like Ernst Stavro Blofeld for a couple days.
Another time I was shooting a Garand in a high power match, my first round of offhand went straight up and came down and lodged between my glasses and eyelid. Uncomfortable to say the least. The burn kinda made me look like Ernst Stavro Blofeld for a couple days.
This has been my experience too with bolt action, lever action and break action rifles.
It's only the semi or full auto actions that spit out hot brass, even in .22
HK's (91/93) fling really hot brass with black stripes down their length.
You have to wait a bit before you can even pick them up off the ground.
I got a hot shell from a 1911 between the glasses and eyelid once, not fun.
This may be a bit of a know it all response coming up, ample warning 
1., Most bolt guns I've used, including my trusty R700, make this fairly easy. The ejection is far from violent and is entirely predictable because you're controlling that ejection. It's really not that hard to do after a few rounds. Gas guns would be a whole 'nother story.
2., I'm nearly positive that's the 308 version of the AI they use. The size, length of action, and recoil all lead me to believe this. They field it along with their 338s:
http://www.snipercentral.com/l96a1.htm
Not saying I'm certain here, but my $$ would be on it being the 308 version and not the 338.
1., Most bolt guns I've used, including my trusty R700, make this fairly easy. The ejection is far from violent and is entirely predictable because you're controlling that ejection. It's really not that hard to do after a few rounds. Gas guns would be a whole 'nother story. 2., I'm nearly positive that's the 308 version of the AI they use. The size, length of action, and recoil all lead me to believe this. They field it along with their 338s:
http://www.snipercentral.com/l96a1.htm
Not saying I'm certain here, but my $$ would be on it being the 308 version and not the 338.
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KBCraig
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I've never had a problem doing the same with any of my bolt-action guns (.303, 7.5 Swiss, 7.5 French, 8mm Mauser, 8x56R, 7.62x54R). Well, okay, the straight-pulls are a challenge to actually catch the brass, but they're not unbearably hot.
On the other hand, I've either done or witnessed the "Safety Dance" with 5.56, almost every pistol caliber, and even .22 LR.
On the other hand, I've either done or witnessed the "Safety Dance" with 5.56, almost every pistol caliber, and even .22 LR.
Oh, those little .22's are murderous. I had one come out of a jennings and go down the front of my tank top. Burned a .22 cartridge print into me.
Hey, at least you got it to cycle.
That's what I thought as well,it's .308 and not .338..That rifle looks a lot like mine..the AI long action receiver dwarfs the short action,and the recoil doesn't look like what you would get from a .338
Kind of hard to tell from the angle of this pic,but my .308 is in the middle and my friends .338LM is on the end,big receiver size difference.The rounds on the left are for comparison...338 makes .308 look like a .22
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It doesn't look so. It seems that he's catching, then re-engaging the bolt before he puts down the brass. It seems that as soon as he's putting the brass down, he's already for the next shot.
My Grandpa's bottom ejecting 22 semi-auto bounced a case off a wooden box I was leaning across to shoot and it hit and stuck between my lips. Burned my tongue too trying to push the brass out from between my lips. Damn that still hurts to think about and that was forty years ago.
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