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Memorial Day, M1903A3
by rabbi-tom
Thats MR Asshole to you!
15 years ago
Went target shooting today with 
pook and 
S0C0M_3 (thats him in the background). We took in some heavy iron to throw lead downrange with various big bores.
I took out a few historical weapons with me. Here is a WW2 Springfield M1903A3 rifle in .30-06 caliber. I've owned this rifle since the mid-80s, paid like $70 for it then.
This photo shows the rifle in recoil after firing the 180 grain slug downrange.
pook and 
S0C0M_3 (thats him in the background). We took in some heavy iron to throw lead downrange with various big bores.I took out a few historical weapons with me. Here is a WW2 Springfield M1903A3 rifle in .30-06 caliber. I've owned this rifle since the mid-80s, paid like $70 for it then.
This photo shows the rifle in recoil after firing the 180 grain slug downrange.
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I forgot what "green" looks like, and we won't probably see much of it this year do to the bad drought that we are having. I've also haven't been hearing much going on at the local gun range lately. Everyone is much to worried of fires breaking out.
http://m1903.com/ph/read.php?f=4&i=4203&t=4200
Thats because the Government was butt-ass stupid after the Civil war and went with the Trap-door rifle/carbine over the Winchester lever action rifles cause they felt that the soldier won't be as accurate and waste ammo. Half the troops were still armed with 1883/1889 Trapdoor rifles and the others with Krag Jorgensons. The Krag was a good rifle, but the Mauser Action was stronger. Plus the Spanish troops had smokeless powder rounds. over the US Black powder rounds the Trapdoors used.
I'm glad you had fun though. :)