BallisticsGuy
Well-Known Member
Basically, show 'em off. Your rifles (pistols, shotguns, cannon) that really stand out in the crowd. The garish. The deliberately fugly. Whatever. Have fun with it.
I don't mind standing out in a crowd but I wondered for a second when I first attended one why, at a rimfire metallic silhouette match, there's all these garish rifles that had to have cost thousands and they're just .22's and they're just being shot offhand. I mean some done up to death, completely ugly rifles in neon stocks with stainless barrels and blued actions and giant aluminum trigger guards. Took about 5 seconds to figure it out but I saw it again a few years back while attending the first prone type match I'd done since I was a teenager. At any long range matches I go to lately it's plum hard pretty often telling all the masterpiece chassis'd, vortex scoped, atlas bipod wearing, Defiance actions and fat bastard brakes apart. I don't like standing out by fitting in and I did notice that at least some of the reason at silhouette for rifles being garish was to get into the other competitors heads (hard to think that the effectiveness persists once the behavior was more or less SOP). So why not play that game too at long range prone & PRS. I started with the whole FDE or black everything, then said the heck with it and did whatever came into my head. Some pretty odd things come into my head as you'll see.
So I present to you for your kind/unthinking compliments/abuse (put those together however works best), the Snake Gun and the Dodger Dog in their current full trim.
Snake Gun is a Mossberg MVP Varmint in .223Rem moved into an LSS chassis, XLR butt, DPMS PSG-1 grip, Timney trigger, US Optics B-17 and Columbia River Arms (aka Black Hole Weapons) 7 twist with an A2 birdcage, early BipodeXt with Harris smooth leg 6-9" swivel type bipod. Barrel paint is meant to resemble a Sonoran coral snake. World's worst cerakote guy made the scales backward and didn't finish the last 5" of the barrel for some reason.
Dodger Dog is a Savage 10FPSR .243AI in an LSS with XLR butt, MOE grip, US Optics SN3 3.8-22x58, Columbia River arms 8 twist, JP brake, new BipodeXt TacIII with Accu-Tac SR5 bipod. Rustoleum'd to look like a hot dog. A Dodger Dog specificially, with mustard, onions and relish on a pretzel bun.
Individual Pics
So grab those Krylon abortions, bring out your 'did it while a little drunk' projects, send forth that which perhaps you might have thought twice but didn't. Bring them and allow all to jab at thee as they surely will me.
All in fun of course.
I don't mind standing out in a crowd but I wondered for a second when I first attended one why, at a rimfire metallic silhouette match, there's all these garish rifles that had to have cost thousands and they're just .22's and they're just being shot offhand. I mean some done up to death, completely ugly rifles in neon stocks with stainless barrels and blued actions and giant aluminum trigger guards. Took about 5 seconds to figure it out but I saw it again a few years back while attending the first prone type match I'd done since I was a teenager. At any long range matches I go to lately it's plum hard pretty often telling all the masterpiece chassis'd, vortex scoped, atlas bipod wearing, Defiance actions and fat bastard brakes apart. I don't like standing out by fitting in and I did notice that at least some of the reason at silhouette for rifles being garish was to get into the other competitors heads (hard to think that the effectiveness persists once the behavior was more or less SOP). So why not play that game too at long range prone & PRS. I started with the whole FDE or black everything, then said the heck with it and did whatever came into my head. Some pretty odd things come into my head as you'll see.
So I present to you for your kind/unthinking compliments/abuse (put those together however works best), the Snake Gun and the Dodger Dog in their current full trim.
Snake Gun is a Mossberg MVP Varmint in .223Rem moved into an LSS chassis, XLR butt, DPMS PSG-1 grip, Timney trigger, US Optics B-17 and Columbia River Arms (aka Black Hole Weapons) 7 twist with an A2 birdcage, early BipodeXt with Harris smooth leg 6-9" swivel type bipod. Barrel paint is meant to resemble a Sonoran coral snake. World's worst cerakote guy made the scales backward and didn't finish the last 5" of the barrel for some reason.
Dodger Dog is a Savage 10FPSR .243AI in an LSS with XLR butt, MOE grip, US Optics SN3 3.8-22x58, Columbia River arms 8 twist, JP brake, new BipodeXt TacIII with Accu-Tac SR5 bipod. Rustoleum'd to look like a hot dog. A Dodger Dog specificially, with mustard, onions and relish on a pretzel bun.
Individual Pics
So grab those Krylon abortions, bring out your 'did it while a little drunk' projects, send forth that which perhaps you might have thought twice but didn't. Bring them and allow all to jab at thee as they surely will me.
All in fun of course.
