hey brother man
My name is "Bill"; everyone who knows me calls me "Chief", spent thirty-six years in the Navy. I have shot competitively for the Navy in all phases of long gun discipline, my favorite is long range 600~1000 yards.
In that discipline multishot capability is no advantage, if anything it is a disadvantage, since weapon action must be tight to keep overall accuracy.
I have built a single shot weapon just for long range shooting based on that thinking and it does really work. During my stay on the Navy team I looked at all weapons available over the counter. I have seen everything from custom Dakotas, TCs, X40Bs, custom one off McMillan stocked weapons, to H/Rs. I hesitate to call someone's choice of a weapon stupid or dumb; that's really bad manners. Owning a gun is kinda' like owning a stereo, you just don't tell someone ,"...well so and so whizz bang sucks..."
That's kinda' like telling someone they have ugly kids; guns are very personal property afterall they manifest in a physical way your viewpoint about the world outside. The H/R is a very elegant rifle in its simplicity; the fit and finish are excellent and I have not hesitated in the least in the past when showing my weapons to selected people. One should not show their weapons to just anybody, gun owning is a serious thing and gun viewing is likewise serious. The drop block receiver, today, while being similar to the old receivers of some twenty years ago is as different from them as day is from night; it has been reengineered and now is capable of taking some intense loadings 25/06, 270Win, and 30/06 being but three examples. True to the "ad" it closes up tighter than a bank vault. It is in the area of the trigger that I find that the H/R excels; I have read some of the "postings" on this web about reworking the trigger. While an admirable exercise I really don't think that that is really necessary. You can have the best fit, finish, and rifling job but if the trigger is marginal well you've got a marginal weapon. The H/R trigger is "appx" 3.5 pounds pull; it is clean and crisp which tells me that the sear has been well done, with absolutely no "creep" or staging. For me, I use the criteria of a 4.5 pound pull TRW trigger for the M1A SuperMatch as a becnh mark; the H/R trigger scores well by the standard. I have trained with USN Seal Team Six, USAMU, and USMC Scout Sniper school staff at "Q" town and have been made to believe in and practice "one shot, one kill". If you cannot bag that trophy buck or dump that "dog" with one shot, well now a second follow up shot won't mean a darned thing, 90% of the time you'll just punch a hole in the air without a clear idea of background and you'll give your position away. If you anchor a bear with one shot, you will have more than enough time to chamber a second "coups de gras" if you must. The beauty of a single shot rifle is that if you observe the fundamentals: eye/sight alignment and target picture, learn to breath, shoot when your heart is at rest, squeeze through on the trigger, use your skeleton to hold the weapon and not your muscles, and good posture the weapon will reward you; it teaches you to discipline yourself. I have seen Rossi rifles and while they are nice they are not American. H/R is solidly American; they make all of the bolts and receivers for the M-16 assault rifle, that is a measure of their over all quality. I once shot against a British officer in a match, he remarked that:
"...America is a country of rifleman..." he is right. We are a country of rifleman; I am a rifleman and I shoot American rifles, H/R.
Anchor's Away/Semper Fi
CPO Bull
