Haha. The thing was horridly inaccurate. Those old old sights probably werent helping. And I wont act like I know much about guns I am hardly breaking the surface with knives, guns are a whole other category. The Nagant is fun if you just like to watch it punch through things. Wasn't it more of a gun ment for sporadic firing?

So how was your fireworks this evening. Ours was well, non-existant due to the burn ban. On the way home from the cook out the skies got dark and a few rain drops. Sure would be nice to have some serios rain tonight so the kids (all ages) can shoot some tomorrow.

I am going over to a bud's house in the morning. He is buying my DFLE and I am taking the newly acquired grinder and belts over and see what kind of damage we can do on a couple cheap bowies, a British military golok, and some old kitchen knives I have. We will see. Sure will be nice if I can get the hang of it so I don't have to do anymore sandpaper or send them out. Afternoon we are heading to an uncle's place for a cookout. Good thing about it tomorrow is I will have some cold beer. Tonight it was a dry cookout due to all the church people around. Oh well, that is life LOL.

Not knowing the rifle you were shooting I would say it was possibly both you and the rifle. I have shot the Nagant on iron swinging targets out to 400 yds with no problem, and that was more than one Nagant. It could be the brl is worn, you probably devoloped a flinch from the recoil, etc. The Nagant does not have a great trigger but it should not take too many rds to figure it out. Was it a long rifle, short rifle, bayonet on? Do you know what kind of ammo you were using, I remember getting a hold of some Albanian that was broadside of a barn accurate at 100 yds.

I need to buy a 308. Or something. I would like to start doing long distance target shooting.

Sumo, sorry to hear about the dry conditions. We had a big boomer move through here early evening and knock out power for a few hours.

Remember if you are not reloading the .308 can get real expensive. Who am I kidding, it is all expensive today. What distance are you wanting to shoot at eventually. Remember to start short and work on the basics, then move on out in smaller increments. Believe me, it will make sense in time. Very few people I know could just shoot distance right off the bat. There are so many factors it is not funny--wind, elevation, temperature, rifle, ammo, shooter, optics, position, trigger control, breathing, etc.

OK now we're talking, I shoot 223 across the course meaning I start at 200 then move back to 300 and finally prone at 600 yards.

My 223 is an Armalite AR15 setup for service rifle match shooting.