Shooting with Grandpa

[DickWanner]

I spent this past weekend in Vermont for a family celebration for my Great Grandmother turning 100 last Wednesday. On Sunday morning I went with my Grandpa to the range to check out his stuff. He's mostly a hunter, but he does have some nice wheel guns an a 1911 competition rig.

Remington Model Seven in 300WSM with a Bushnell 4200 scope.

Remington 700 in 250 Savage

Remington 700 in 264 Win Mag with a Leupold LPS 14X50 scope. The eye relief on the scope was rediculous and I easily put two into the 10 ring @ 100 yards without really trying.

Ruger No. 1 in 9.3x74r. I shot three rounds through this and man was it a beast. I flinched hardcore on the second shot, but with iron sights I managed to get the first and third shots into the 9 ring @ 100yds.

Savage 99r in 300 Savage.

Vanguard VGL custom built in 6.5-06. I shot 5 rounds out of this and it had quite the punch to it.

Colt Gold Cup Trophy

S&W 610. I want to work with him to make up some nice hot loads for my G29/G20.

S&W Highway Patrolman

Grandpa in the front with the 6.5-06, Uncle in the back with the 250sav.

Grandpa with his .41mag, he was just shooting some light loads that day.


I had a wicked fun time and it was interesting to shoot some stuff that I normally wouldn't touch otherwise. I only shot 10 rifle rounds from the bench, but it left me with more of a bruise than 15 3.5" supermags did at the Mansfield shoot. I had showed him and my uncle my collection Saturday and he told my mom that I was definitely "over-the-top". I took it as a compliment

 

[Blitz1]

Cool post Bud.

 

[DickWanner]

Cool post Bud.

Maybe he'll let me go up to his cabin one of these days. The man's collection at one point was over 100, but now-a-days it's still at least into the 60s last I heard.

 

[K-DUB]

Grandpa has some nice stuff Nick! Sounds like you had a good weekend.

 

[packingungal]

Nice post!!

 

[Fixxah]

Some sweet guns. I like the stainless wheelgun the best. No bias here Nick.

 

[DickWanner]

Some sweet guns. I like the stainless wheelgun the best. No bias here Nick.

He had said about two years ago that he had been wanting to get a 10mm revolver for a long time. I guess when he found out I had a Glock in 10 mil he had to get one himself

 

[jdubois]

Like the Colt

 

[Twigg]

Cool post indeed.

 

[Carguy]

There is no question that when he goes hunting that he kills whatever he shoots...even if he misses those are some serious calibers!!

It sounds like you had an awesome time! It is always fun when you can spend time with your grandparents especially sharing such a great hobby!

 

[dagwag77]

Beautiful guns, and its cool to see you go shoot with your grandfather! I'd love to go with my grandpa, but I dont think he'd enjoy it much.... Thanks for sharing!

 

[PatMcD]

Nice iron. I've had interest in the 6.5-06 cartridge.

 

[Jim Poulette]

Nice post!!

Grandfathers generally have the coolest stuff. My grand-dad had one of the early production Winchester Carbine M94's and I loved shooting that thing - it would hit a bottle cap at 50 yards.

 

[Dirtypacman]

Very very cool - thanks for sharing with us here.

 

[DickWanner]

There is no question that when he goes hunting that he kills whatever he shoots...even if he misses those are some serious calibers!!

It sounds like you had an awesome time! It is always fun when you can spend time with your grandparents especially sharing such a great hobby!

I told him that John from C&F was going water buffalo hunting with a 350gr 45-70 loaded to almost 2000fps and he said that it wasn't big enough to take down a buffalo 'cleanly'

Nice iron. I've had interest in the 6.5-06 cartridge.

If you need any info let me know and I'll try and find anything out.

Nice post!!

Grandfathers generally have the coolest stuff. My grand-dad had one of the early production Winchester Carbine M94's and I loved shooting that thing - it would hit a bottle cap at 50 yards.

The best thing is that we're so obviously on the opposite end of the spectrum. I love tacti-cool semi-autos and he likes the single-shot hunting stuff. We both love to shoot the biggest F'in round we can find though