I had the pleasure of meeting Susannah's parents at SHOT Show. This was written by her father Dr. Jim Clary ...
Susannah L. Clary, my daughter, now age 19 and beginning her junior year in college shoots F-Class high power.
She shoots a Savage Model 12 rifle custom chambered in 6.5 x 284 Norma by Alan Warner in the US. She uses Lapua brass with a 139 grain Lapua Scenar bullet with 49.4 grains of H4350 powder. It gets out there pretty good at 2,950 fps. The scope is a Nightforce 12-42x-56 NXS with NP-R2 reticle.
She hopes to compete at the Creedmor matches in Ireland in 2011......... for the Irish team or as an individual competitor... and of course, she will be shooting in the 2013 world championships - but, not on the US team, but, as an individual....... she has no time for the prelims across the US with college. And me? I'm her "free-loader" on the ammo.
Who says female shooters can't be good looking? Not me.... and of all things... she wants to be a sniper. She has completed the NRA rifle and pistol instructor's courses, and must now wait until she is 21 to be fully certified. In the meantime, she works parttime at a gunshop and shooting range in New Mexico... just to "keep her hand in". Oh yea, she does hold one record that I know of for high power at 1,000 yards for juniors.... picking that up in 2007 at the US Nationals in Raton, NM (NRA Whittington Center)
Recently two European firms, Hera Arms in Germany and Astra Arms in Switzerland, have entered the AR-15 market. I have been told that US Department of State export regulations have made it increasingly hard to import firearms from the US. Even Canadians have problems getting certain types of AR-15 rifles across the border and so have resorted to importing AR-15s from China.
Chad emailed in these photos from a recent hunting trip ...
I went pig hunting this morning (didn't see any) but found some bones from a large mammal, cow or horse. I was carrying my Taurus model 66 with a 6 inch barrel loaded with CCI Blazer 158 grain jacketed hollow points.
I backed off about 10 feet and shot the bone. The attached pictures are the results. Entrance and exit wound.
Shooting is my hobby and as we all do I get comfortable. This is a reminder that these things are not toys.
Never get comfortable.
My fifth blog post on The Firearm Blog (back in 2007!) was on this very topic. It seems like a lifetime ago.
The .410 shotshell chambered Taurus Judge has created a niche in the ammunition market for defensive .410 ammunition. The Home Defender ammunition from Lightfield Less Lethal packs three rubber buckshot into a .410 shotshell. The company is selling this as less-likely-to-kill than regular ammunition but told me that under no circumstance could this be considered less-lethal.
So why would you want it? This is what they company representative told me
Our main premise for this line was giving shooters a choice. For example,a Taurus Judge loaded w/ 2 rubber buck followed by 3 lead loads gives the shooter a chance to send a painful warning. If those warnings are not heeded, then you have shown the intruders intention if the lead comes into play.
This is an updated and high quality version of a video I posted some years ago. Well worth watching ... if only to see 7.62x39mm rounds loaded using a hammer!
[ Many thanks to OVERZERO for emailing me the link. ]
