Learning to Shoot. Really
Mad Oilman was minding his own business, hard at work on a road trip in Tulsa when his wife sent him this link:
Of course, she added "We're going, right?"
Well, not one to disappoint my sweetie I emailed her back, 'Yes, sign us up. But. I don't have a rifle for this. I'll have to buy one'.
She agreed.
And now, what to buy? Long range open sight shooting? I was leaning FN-FAL or M1A but I'm fairly ignorant of this type of shooting. So I went to a phenomenal resource to see what would happen.
I posted "M1A vs. FN-FAL for High power rifle competition?" on Kim du Toit's forum. Within a few hours there was a raging debate on this topic. Luckily one of the respondents is a national level competitor. His advice was great and lead to my choice of rifle for our October adventure.
I can use this rifle in any NRA or CMP sanctioned event. I'm pricing it out in my market. Most prices are coming in at least 10% lower than MSRP, and others lower. Cool. It will be fun to break this in.
