Surplus rifle safety check

[Aragorn243]

This should fix you up:

Combining a DP Enfield, a Shooter and a Gunsmith ended up with catastrophic failure!

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[HOOKED ON HISTORY]

This should fix you up:

Thanks. I was looking for the post in question tom reply and saw you found it first.

[Aragorn243]

My Safety Check just got a bit better today. While I've come to despise black Friday sales, I did venture out, just not that early, to Cabelas. They had lead sleds on sale for one of their door busters and I picked one up.

So now the string on the trigger is a definite probability as this will hold the rifle in place and can be aimed.

They had a pile of the sleds left around 11am.

Unfortunately, two bags of lead to put on it cost more than the sled so I passed on them. I have a bucket of lead in the basement I'll have to figure out a way to weigh the sled down.

[HOOKED ON HISTORY]

My Safety Check just got a bit better today. While I've come to despise black Friday sales, I did venture out, just not that early, to Cabelas. They had lead sleds on sale for one of their door busters and I picked one up.

Shooting a DP marked Enfield might be safer than a Back Friday mission to many stores though my thought would be folks shopping Cabales would tend to be more polite and far less apt to trample fellow shoppers.

[Aragorn243]

We were at Cabelas at opening last year. We were 10 people short of getting one of the prize picks that morning. I forget what time we got there, probably an hour before opening. This year they opened at 5 I think. We talked about going up to get in line, went to bed and I woke up at 3:30 which was too late to go up. It's an hour from us. So I went back to bed. We stopped at a few places in the morning before going there and didn't get there until around 10:00. By that time, the parking lot looked normal and the only extremely busy place was waiting for a firearms check. That was extremely busy and I was thankful I had no intention of buying a firearm that day. I had been debating for a few days on whether or not I wanted to spend the money on the lead sled. This discussion sort of helped push me over the edge.

Like I said earlier, I'm fairly comfortable shooting them off hand but this will remove the small element of doubt of safety. They are selling for about 55% off and it is a nice set up. I have plenty of lead in the basement. It's in round spoon sized shapes as that's what I poured it in after melting it to get the impurities out. I may melt it again into ingots I guess to make it easier to handle.

Walmart Thursday evening was pretty bad. I was there for about 10 minutes and I had enough. A few dollars in savings isn't worth the degradation of society people take themselves down during these events. The stores we stopped at during daylight Friday morning still had everything we were after anyway.

[Aragorn243]

The lead sled is question is Caldwell's top of the line DFF and the sale price is $99 and it can be ordered online for free shipping to the store. Shipping to your house is probably extra. The Retail on these is over $200 so it's a pretty good savings and they come highly rated. I have not yet taken mine out of the box as I've been too busy. But it would have come in handy yesterday as we shot in our deer rifles and my daughter's shoulder is hurting pretty bad after shooting five rounds of 356 Winchester. I personally don't like shooting more than three of this at any given time. My son in law refuses to shoot it ever again after one shot.