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[AirStrike]

Did you send a PTA with your license application?

 

[Huntington]

Yeah I did. For a .22, but I think the shopping will go a bit further than that.

 

[AirStrike]

Good job.
Do you have any shooting experience?

 

[Huntington]

Little bit of spotlighting and plinking here and there, nothing excessive. Lot to learn but I'm keen if nothing else.

 

[AirStrike]

Cool, was just going to point out stick with the .22 for a while. See too many new shooters go too big to soon and end up developing a flinch, etc.
My cousins friend, with 0 experience, got a .308 straight off the bat. Wants to come hunting with me but I won't take him, he thinks hitting an 8" plate @ 100m is good shooting :s

 

[Huntington]

I have been told that a few times, technique first. And I'm happy going down that path, time to save always helps to.
Although now the paperwork is through I will no doubt feel like a kid in a candy store everytime I walk into the lgs

 

[AirStrike]

Hahaha gets a bit like that. I was like, 2 rifles should do............yeah that didn't happen.

 

[Huntington]

Just two rifles will do..... Thats what I've been telling my wife anyway.

 

[Troy711]

I found when i first started shooting I'd flinch pretty bad. After a while it went but the one time I realised it was totally gone was when I was at the range and didn't count my shots (probably because there was a magpie directly in line with my target which made me lose count) and when I pulled on an empty chamber there's wasn't a hint of movement.

I have to say about shooting last night, the 12 gauge didn't kick anywhere near as bad as my brother in laws Nagant. I was expecting a huge thump but it was hardly noticeable.

 

[AirStrike]

Shoot a 1oz slug rather than a target load