Author Topic: Handi Maxi scare ! (Read 1168 times)

Lon371 · « **on:** October 08, 2011, 01:42:53 PM »

Have not had my Handi max out since early last spring. Since then I have changed the stocks to BC and put a Bushnell 3x9-40 scope on it. Well today I grabbed it and my Contender super 14 Maxi and some rounds and headed out back. We have a little shooting range of 75 yards. Fired twice at target on the 75 yard post with the Handi. Then got the Contender out fired couple rounds then went to check out the target(need spotting scope) Handi target was BLANK!!

Contender put them where I likem

. Went back and checked out the Handi. Duh the scope rings were a hair loose. Tightend down. Then got to thinking. Pretty sure I never bore sighted it

Eye balled thru the barrel and then scope at the 50yd target a foot low and 8" right

Thinking maybe I never finished installing the scope

Adjusted the scope, fired hair low. Readjusted bingo 2" over at 75 yards. Now to wait untill the crops are out of the field, that is where we shoot to 100+.

Contender on the other hand. Was shooting clay pigeons at 75 yards

That gun is so fun, and makes me look good too

Moral of the story, make sure you finish the scope mounting before you get side tract and put it away.

Lonny

dave29 · « **Reply #1 on:** October 08, 2011, 02:15:03 PM »

I'm glad it was an easy fix and you figured it out right away before you wasted too much ammo.

Lon371 · « **Reply #2 on:** October 08, 2011, 02:40:14 PM »

If I were a kid now days, they would say I have ADD. But my wife says its an old age thing, where I get side tract to easy. I blame it on her and the kids, Dad I need, Honey can you look at this.

I figured it was something simple. I took to deer last year with the same loads I shot today.

Lonny.

quickdtoo · « **Reply #3 on:** October 08, 2011, 02:58:55 PM »

Been there, done that Lonny, so don't feel bad. I gotta stay on task on any project, no tellin what'll happen if I don't.

Glad ya got it sorted out right away.

Tim

bikerbeans · « **Reply #4 on:** October 08, 2011, 03:01:55 PM »

Lonny,

You can't beat a story with a happy ending!

Good luck with both your Maxis this fall.

BB

Dinny · « **Reply #5 on:** October 08, 2011, 03:26:56 PM »

Lonny,
At your age, it could be early stages of CRS kicking in.

Next thing you know it will be the oldtimers disease.

Glad to read you're back on target!

Thanks, Dinny

gendoc · « **Reply #6 on:** October 09, 2011, 10:22:40 AM »

lonny, ifin ya anathang like me.....its wat ya call sumtimers caused by aluminum intake

but as dinny says... CRS isa prime suspect wif us old'r than dirt farts !!!

dpe.ahoy · « **Reply #7 on:** October 09, 2011, 01:05:12 PM »

Just a matter of the filing cabnet, (brain), being so full something has to fall out to put more info in. That's my story and I'm stickin to it! D"CRS"P

mechanic · « **Reply #8 on:** October 09, 2011, 01:33:56 PM »

Quote from: dpe.ahoy on October 09, 2011, 01:05:12 PM

Just a matter of the filing cabnet, (brain), being so full something has to fall out to put more info in. That's my story and I'm stickin to it! D"CRS"P

I tell folks I've got a mind like a steel trap. Unfortunately it will only hold one thing at a time.....and when I open it up, that falls out.

Ben

dpe.ahoy · « **Reply #9 on:** October 09, 2011, 01:39:04 PM »

DP

surehuntsalot · « **Reply #10 on:** October 09, 2011, 06:32:19 PM »

been there and done the same thing

cwlongshot · « **Reply #11 on:** October 10, 2011, 01:55:26 AM »

I am sorry to admit the same things have happened to me!!...

LOL

CW

Junior1942 · « **Reply #12 on:** October 10, 2011, 02:44:49 AM »

Re: "side tract." If I can brag, I'm a dang good pool shooter. Back a year or two ago when I was shooting almost daily my buddies discovered a "side tract" which almost always made me miss the 8-ball. I'd be lined up and ready to sink the 8-ball and win the game, and they'd send a little bouncy bouncy hottie strolling beside the table in direct line with my aim. 'Twas a dirty trick, IMHO.

If you hang around barroom pool tables much, notice how some guys will become obnoxious in order to get their opponent mad. Some of them work in pairs, them and a buddy. Even a slightly mad pool shooter will lose his finesse. Notice how some guys will suddenly engage their opponent in conversation when the opponent is lining up a critical shot. The opponent loses his concentration and misses the shot. There was a certain fellow who would always stand behind the 8-ball when I was aiming at it. I couldn't look at the 8-ball without looking at his crotch. One day I had enough of him and walked to his side. And I said, "If you don't stop putting your crotch behind the 8-ball when I'm shooting at it, I'll tell every woman in the bar that you have AIDS."

He never did it again. Several times I almost put low English on the cue ball and sent it at high speed into his crotch, but that would have meant losing the game. But, still, I wish I'd done it at least once.....

spikehorn · « **Reply #13 on:** October 10, 2011, 09:40:29 AM »

Yep CRS with me too. I can think of something I need in another room and by the time I get I forgot was going after.

gcrank1 · « **Reply #14 on:** October 11, 2011, 07:47:11 AM »

My memory aint what I remember it being...............

Dinny · « **Reply #15 on:** October 11, 2011, 11:49:55 AM »

They say as we get older there's two things we lose. First is the memory and the second one I can't remember.

Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most.

Thanks, Dinny

Lon371 · « **Reply #16 on:** October 11, 2011, 03:30:31 PM »

Geez, I come on and confess to help others not make the same mistake. Now I am being accused of having abcdefg(something like that) Thanks guys for the support. Ya'll been talking to my wife haven't ya!

LOL
Lonny

Dinny · « **Reply #17 on:** October 11, 2011, 04:15:48 PM »

Quote from: Lon371 on October 11, 2011, 03:30:31 PM

Geez, I come on and confess to help others not make the same mistake. Now I am being accused of having abcdefg(something like that) Thanks guys for the support. Ya'll been talking to my wife haven't ya!
LOL
Lonny

What's even funnier is that this is all coming to me someday. My daughter and wife will have the last laugh!

Thanks, Dinny

mechanic · « **Reply #18 on:** October 11, 2011, 04:27:57 PM »

Always be good to the kids....they will choose your assisted care facility....

Ben

spikehorn · « **Reply #19 on:** October 11, 2011, 05:01:47 PM »

Quote from: mechanic on October 11, 2011, 04:27:57 PM

Always be good to the kids....they will choose your assisted care facility....

Ben

Amen to that brother!