The 400 rounds of Red Army Standard I ordered came in Tuesday so I spent yesterday at the Osceola Range in Lake City again...what a GREAT day it was too! banana time shooting1
I thought these cartridges were sealed in green or red however mine were not sealed at all. This isn't an issue for me however as they functioned without a hiccup in my Russian & AR. I ordered 50 BXN stripper clips recently and they came in also, they're working great.
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Loading rounds into the BXN clips
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My apologies for not scaling these targets however the red bullseye is 1 inch and the black 9 ring is 4 inches. My shots hit high in the AR...
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...and low in the Russian.
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Big difference in the RAS and Wolf in my AR
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Though I enjoyed my time shooting the HIGHLIGHT of my day was meeting Thomas, a German immigrant! And he had an SG43 made in 1935 that was absolutely beautiful. It had a side mounted 4X scope he said was made in 1962 with a quick disconnect and a reticle like the one shown below.
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He really admired my SKS and at my offer, he enjoyed shooting it. So much so that he stated he would trade his Mauser for my Russian but I respectfully declined. I just couldn't bring myself to get rid of my first Russian SKS just yet! I asked if I could photograph his rifle and for whatever reason he declined. However, while he was firing a little later I could not resist sneaking in a few pics!
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