Fun with the SVD at the range.

[dragunov]

I was shooting my .308 SVD over the weekend along with my Enfield #4 and had the usual crowd gather around. Where I shoot there are rifle racks behind the shooting tables and that's where I keep the SVD while I shoot whatever else I bring. I started to get the usual questions of "What IS that?" and "How much did you pay?" (Which I really don't like to answer, so if you are one of those people who absolutely HAS to know what someone paid for a rifle or whatever, please don't expect that everyone is comfortable answering) So this guy who brought his M-1A's turns to his buddy and says "Those things are over-rated. When I shoot highpower 99% of all the rifles are M-1A's." I ignored the ignorant guy but got a lot of pleasure in showing his buddy, a little later, my 5 shot group with the SVD. I had managed a 4 shot clover pattern with the 5th opening the group up to just under an inch. I was using 168gr Federal match at 100 yards. His know-it-all buddy came over and grunted as he saw my target and then walked away.

[dragunov]

I don't know if I can post pictures here but here is a scan of that group I'm talking about above:
http://community.webshots.com/scripts/editPhotos.fcgi?action=showMyPhoto&albumID=3501597&photoID=3501643&security=WUIuqmbZvq

[CAMPYBOB]

how does it shoot at 500m? 800m? sounds real nice at 100!

Campy,
At 800meters your dead.....nuff said. I get a 6" group @ 600yds with 175 BTHP Moly Black Hills in the Orange.

[krinkovx]

i have gotten to third base with my svd,and she likes it,oh wait maybe its not ivanna hump alot,maybe its ivan the terrible,will talk later,take care,krinkov

[CAMPYBOB]

very nice! have you went out to 800m yet?

[AKDUDE47]

KRINKOV!!!! GeT YOUR FINGER OUT OF THE CHAMBER OF THAT SVD!! ITs a gun not a woman!
AKDUDE

[dragunov]

I took the SVD out again today and as soon as I was setting my stuff down on the shooting bench this guy 2 tables down looks at my stuff and asks me to move farther down the lanes. "I don't want to get hit by your ejecting shells", he says. This is one of those guys who brings a custom bolt action rifle with fluted barrel, you know the works, and lines all his handloads up nicely and is shooting about 1 round every 5 minutes through a chronograph. Anyway I'm starting to get this snobbish vibe from the guy and it's annoying me. So I move 5 tables away from the guy, no one in between us, and load up my .308 SVD. First shot I take, the shell flies in this long arc and hits the snobby guy square on the cheek! These SVD's are not only accurate shooting forward, but also sideways!

[This message has been edited by dragunov (edited 08-06-2000).]

[krinkovx]

it is better my son to be hit on the cheek from flying svd brass,then to be hit by the fmj coming out of that loooooong aaaaaas barrel!!!from the book of teachings from the master to grasshopper,and when you see mr.bolt action single shot at 800 hundred yards,tell him we are all in the same club,just use different style tools,take care,krinkov