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Worst I ever shot was a JD Jones special called the .50 Peacemaker, a 750 grain .50 BMG projo loaded into a .460 Weatherby Magnum case, fired from a Thompson-Center Contender.
No previous experience shooting a T-C, I was shooting off a sandbag from the prone and had my hands improperly placed.
First round was a good hit, but the recoil caused the lower recurved part of the Contender trigger guard to impact directly on the first joint of the index finger on my support hand, breaking it.
Of course, JD challenged me to repeat the shot to prove that it wasn't a lucky hit, so I sucked it up, kept my support hand well clear of the guard, and touched off a second one.
I guess JD liked the fact that I kept shooting, so we moved on to some more exotic toys like a suppressed M-4 chambered for 7.62x25 using .308 rifle bullets.
I did not ask to shoot the hand cannon again though.
Hey, anyone here shot an M-79 with the stock cut off and the barrel cut down?
TR
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"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat." - President Theodore Roosevelt, 1910
De Oppresso Liber 01/20/2025
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