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Offline g00dtime

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New Texas member
« on: May 01, 2012, 09:03:42 AM »

Hi All,

I'm 68, retired, just back from spending 15 years in Scotland (where the only thing you can shoot is a camera), consequently the first thing I wanted to do when I got back was look at firearms. I came across the H&R Handi-rifles and their classical design appealed to me, a little more searching and I came across GrayBeardOutdoors.com, a perfect match...

I'm interested in range shooting with iron sights. My sons are in the Army and I go shooting with them. They are pushing me toward an AR15 or some variant but I think the H&R Handi-rifle is what I want, I'd like the target model CR-3855, but I'm not sure I'm going to be able to find one, but I'll keep looking.

Anyway, this looks like a great place to meet like-minded individuals...

Andrew

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Re: New Texas member
« Reply #1 on: May 01, 2012, 09:10:57 AM »
Welcome to the internet home of a great bunch of folks and a few old farts.
Hope your time here is enjoyable.
 
Be sure and drop by the Texas forum:
 
http://www.gboreloaded.com/forums/index.php?board=144.0
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Re: New Texas member
« Reply #2 on: May 01, 2012, 09:57:09 AM »
Welcome!
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Re: New Texas member
« Reply #3 on: May 01, 2012, 04:47:18 PM »

Welcome to GBO. This is a great place. Pull up a chair and sit a spell.
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Re: New Texas member
« Reply #4 on: May 01, 2012, 04:54:21 PM »
Welcome, sir!

I'm a new guy from north Texas myself.  Seems like a decent sort of place so far.
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Re: New Texas member
« Reply #5 on: May 02, 2012, 10:46:02 AM »
Thanks for the warm welcome,


I'm in the Ft. Bliss area. My son and I shoot at the range at the Ft Bliss Rod and Gun club. I want to do some distance shooting so I'd like to get an H&R CR-3855 Target model but of course it's discontinued so my only hope is finding a used one. Barring that I'll probably get the CR-1871 Buffalo Hunter which is available.



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Re: New Texas member
« Reply #6 on: May 03, 2012, 01:06:25 AM »
Welcome aboard..... :)
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Re: New Texas member
« Reply #7 on: May 12, 2012, 09:51:19 AM »
I have acquired my first Handi, a .223 Rem, 22" barrel and a scope. My son had a red dot that he wasn't using so I removed the scope and I'm using the red dot instead (I wanted something close to iron sights). Here's my baby:





After playing with the trigger a bit, it fires real nice, we're going to be happy together.

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Re: New Texas member
« Reply #8 on: July 24, 2012, 11:21:07 AM »
What part of Texas? I am from the Lubbock area
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