Nice shooting day

Post by **FlyingPenguin** » Fri Jan 01, 2016 9:09 pm

Had a couple of friends over and we did some target shooting. I live on 20 acres and I have a backstop consisting of a 9 foot tall mound of dirt left over from when they bulldozed and paved my access road.

Got to try out my father's 55+ year old Marlin 30-30 lever action rifle, which hasn't been fired in 30 years. Nice gun. Dead accurate. Kicks like a mule, though. No rubber pad on the stock.

Always loved that gun as a kid. Reminded my of the Rifleman TV series.

30-30 does a spectacular job of destroying hard drives and I had a stack of them waiting for destruction.

Nice day of shooting.

renovation · Post by **renovation** » Sat Jan 02, 2016 4:10 pm

western digital recycling at its finest !

Executioner · Post by **Executioner** » Sat Jan 02, 2016 5:57 pm

FlyingPenguin wrote:Had a couple of friends over and we did some target shooting. I live on 20 acres and I have a backstop consisting of a 9 foot tall mound of dirt left over from when they paved they bulldozed my access road.

Got to try out my father's 55+ year old Marlin 30-30 lever action rifle, which hasn't been fired in 30 years. Nice gun. Dead accurate. Kicks like a mule, though. No rubber pad on the stock.

Always loved that gun as a kid. Reminded my of the Rifleman TV series.

30-30 does a spectacular job of destroying hard drives and I had a stack of them waiting for destruction.

Nice day of shooting.

No pics of the destruction?

normalicy · Post by **normalicy** » Sat Jan 02, 2016 7:03 pm

Sadly, I haven't been out to the range in about a year. Really need to fix that. Was actually thinking about doing that this weekend.

EvilHorace · Post by **EvilHorace** » Sat Jan 02, 2016 9:45 pm

I own guns that I haven't shot yet. Those pesky HDDs.....LOL!

Post by **FlyingPenguin** » Sat Jan 09, 2016 1:50 pm

Actually, the hard drives were still in my scrap metal pile waiting to go to the recycling center, so I took some photos. This is what high velocity 30-30 Winchester rounds do to a hard drive:

Post by **FlyingPenguin** » Sat Jan 09, 2016 2:07 pm

I just looked up the serial number for my Dad's Marlin 336RC 30-30. Serial starts with an "R" which identifies the year of manufacture: 1958. It's 2 years older than I am. Still has the original leather and brass strap. There was some green mold around the brass - I guess a reaction with the leather. Cleaned it off with a toothpick and a tooth brush.

Executioner · Post by **Executioner** » Sat Jan 09, 2016 4:53 pm

Nice!

psypher · Post by **psypher** » Sat Jan 09, 2016 10:55 pm

FlyingPenguin wrote:I just looked up the serial number for my Dad's Marlin 336RC 30-30. Serial starts with an "R" which identifies the year of manufacture: 1958. It's 2 years older than I am. Still has the original leather and brass strap. There was some green mold around the brass - I guess a reaction with the leather. Cleaned it off with a toothpick and a tooth brush.

Very nice. I just bought kid his first rifle. Went with a CZ-452. He's only 11 and not very big, so it was more of finding something sized right for him where he wasn't too uncomfortable.