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Don't be making fun of the stick, neither, that was painstakingly crafted by my dog, Chewie...
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Well, it's been sitting in storage since then, seems like it either rains every Sunday or I never took it with me over the few times I did make it out shooting. Finally took it out Sunday before last, was contemplating selling it to fund other purchases and figured I better at least shoot it to make sure it worked...
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I have to say, that thing is the sweetest shooting critter I've ever pulled the trigger on, in x54r. Straight out of the box I shot this target at 50 yards with surplus Bulgarian silvertip.
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Then just to make sure I hadn't suddenly developed good shooting habits, I have my buddy Paul run a magazine through. Have to excuse that first shot down and to the right, he isn't used to a factory Mosin trigger, the one he got off me had the usual polishing done on it.
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Needless to say, I've decided it's not going anywhere at all...matter of fact I did the polish work on the trigger spring and took it back out Sunday, when we did this...