First time out shooting the Remington M1917

[mtbikerwvu]

Took a group of friends out shooting today and had to take the new to me Remington M1917. My first attempts with old surplus 06 ammo was pretty impressive for me with open sights. My eyes are not as good as they used to be,

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[eddystone3006]

With that group....... your eyes are still good enough for the trenches. NOW GET BACK ON LINE SOLIDER!!!!!

NICE SHOOTING!

PICS OF THE GUN?

[Sarge1998]

I believe that may be Alvin York's 1917.

[jmoore]

...PICS OF THE GUN?

That would be in this thread (click on link below, but it looks like you've seen them...):

I finally got one!

[mtbikerwvu]

I was very impressed with that gun yesterday! A real pleasure to shoot and with old 1950's surplus ammo that I figured would be less than ideal. The sights are my favorite of all my milsurps, must be the extra long sight radius.




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This was the target from the very first 5 rounds I fired. The one at 6 o'clock was where I held on the very first shot because I had read so much negative stuff about how the guns shoot and how the non adjustable sights were junk. I think what I read was a bunch of bull or I have an exceptional rifle.

[mtbikerwvu]

Here's the gun again.

[Patrick Chadwick]

My eyes are not as good as they used to be,

Super shooting! But let an optician check if you have some astigmatism in the aiming eye.

[mtbikerwvu]

Had 20/18 vision when I retired from the Army in 2002 with 22 years in, guess all that shooting kinda paid off. That and growing up in rural West Virginia, LOL!!