Get your gear ready for the hunting season!

[Old BuckParticipant 3596]

This is it, gentleman! Deer season (rifle) is next weekend, here in Wisconsin. This is your last chance to get your guns sighted in!

Check your ammunition NOW, before it’s too late. Do an inventory check. Make sure you have a couple boxes for each firearm you are taking. It may take a box (or two) to sight in. It really sucks when you go to feed your .30-06 and all you brought was .308 cartridges. Look at your rifle, the caliber is stamped on it, and double check everything. The best of us have made this mistake. You don’t want to spend opening day driving hundreds of miles scouring the backwoods for ammo.

Before heading out to the range, look over your rifle. Open the action and make sure it’s unloaded. Grab your gun oil and a couple patches, and wipe out the inside of the receiver. Add a couple drops to the raceways (slots where the bolt rides) and the bolt itself. If it is easy, pull the stock off, add a drop of oil to the trigger, sear, and other moving parts AND the pins they pivot on.

Once reassembled check the scope screws for tightness. If possible, the base mounting screws. If you have iron sights, check them to see if they are loose. This is the number one reason for wasting ammo at the sight-in.

After sighting in your firearm, clean out the action, again with a couple drops of oil on a patch. DO NOT CLEAN INSIDE THE BARREL! Your rifle is now sighted in with a dirty bore. The bullet impact point will change from a clean bore to one with fouling. Wipe off the exterior, and maybe use a little glass cleaner on the scopes glass.

After the hunt, strip down the firearm. Remove the stock, pull the bolt, fully disassemble and clean. Prevent corrosion during storage. If you don’t have a wide range of screwdrivers, dont booger up your baby. Consider going to brownells.com or midway and buy a gunsmith screwdriver kit.

Any questions please ask. Have a safe and successful hunt!

Don't chase tail. Turn yours around, walk away, and live free!

[GregB0Participant]

Old Buck wrote:

Before heading out to the range, look over your rifle. Open the action and make sure it’s unloaded.

Absolutely, ensure that your weapon is empty. Then do it again. Never, ever assume that a weapon is safe.

Always check the chamber when picking up a weapon, even if it is being handed to you by someone who just checked it. It’s all about muscle memory and falling into good habits.

Old Buck wrote:

Before heading out to the range, look over your rifle

If you have not serviced your rifle before, take it to a gunsmith and let them do it. Do not look at the “online” breakdown guide and decide that you can do it. This is not the time to try to do it yourself, there are too many small parts, springs under compression and critical things that can be lost.

Let a professional do it. MGTOW.com is very luck to have members who are experienced with long and short guns, as well as Gunsmiths such as Silver Fox and Pistol Pete. Ask if you have a question, repairs can be very expensive, if they can be accomplished at all.

​"​My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.​" - Clarence Buddinton Kelland

[Anonymous 6]

Consider building your own AR instead buying one off the rack. Building your own helps to make it more suited for you and what you want. Build the gun to fit you, instead of you trying to fit the gun.

Use good quality ammo, and test out a variety when sighting in and recreational shooting.

When you buy a weapon, spend some time with it. You should know every aspect of the weapons you own. You should understand everything there is to know about that particular gun.

When shooting an animal, remember to breathe! Inhale, exhale and pull the trigger. Don’t yank on the trigger, just slowly pull it back.

Have fun.

[Old BuckParticipant 3596]

GregB0 wrote:

If you have not serviced your rifle before, take it to a gunsmith and let them do it.

Thank you!! This was going to be the next post, using my phone for this is a real pain.

Even gunsmiths launch parts when they disassemble firearms.

And again, SAFETY FIRST!

If you see guys at deer camp walking around with their finger on the trigger, waving their muzzle everywhere, EDUCATE them. They probably just need a reminder.

Don't chase tail. Turn yours around, walk away, and live free!

[GregB0Participant]

Anonymous wrote:

Consider building your own AR instead buying one off the rack.

An assault rifle style weapon will have limited capability when compared to a full stock rifle. Using a “classic” Remington 700 BDL for comparison, it is more accurate as it has a full stock & weights more, and is much easier to clean in the field. It allows for a much greater type of ammunition (Bullets and bullet weight)

An AR15 style weapon is an Urban weapon and not intended to be a serious sport hunting weapon.

Anonymous wrote:

When you buy a weapon, spend some time with it. You should know every aspect of the weapons you own. You should understand everything there is to know about that particular gun.

Absolutely correct, This is the very first thing I say each and every time someone asks about purchasing a firearm. Practive, practive practive. Dry fire and live fire. Muscle memory is the key.

Old Buck wrote:

Even gunsmiths launch parts when they disassemble firearms.

Ask Pistol Pete about the 10mm spring “incident” one time… glad that I had left the gun room when it happened. Yikes!

​"​My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.​" - Clarence Buddinton Kelland

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