Took one of my favorites out to the range.
The first real gun I ever shot, not counting pellet guns, was a 513-T. I was 13, we were stationed in Frankfurt, Germany in 1965. My friend's older brother was really into guns (he could quote the ballistics charts of every round) and took us to the base firing range. They had 6 or so range guns, all 513-T models, that you could check out to use. We shot off a rest, with peep sights, at a single large bullseye target at 100 yards. No charge for the guns or targets.
I remember we walked to the range, stopping at a very small range shop that sold us a couple of boxes of Western Super-X ammo for 65 cents. Most of my shots were in the white scoring rings at least, but it was really cool. We made that trip many times. I would always search the trash cans and pick up any fired brass that was there. To this day I am still using the nickel Western .38 Special wadcutter cases I found there, and still have those empty boxes they came in.
Over the years, I had always wanted a 513-T, for nostalgia's sake, but never got around to getting one. A year after we were married, my wife wanted to buy me a gun for my birthday and I told her this story. She said to go find one on Gunbroker and bought it for me.
Never put a scope on it to see what it prefers, but I know it likes Eley a lot and some others. In keeping with the tradition, I usually feed it the same stuff we used back in 1965.
Spent a lot of time just picking off clay target pieces at 50 and 100 yards from the bench, then a little bit shooting it offhand, going through 100 rounds. It was absolutely enjoyable. This one will always occupy a special place in the safe.
The first real gun I ever shot, not counting pellet guns, was a 513-T. I was 13, we were stationed in Frankfurt, Germany in 1965. My friend's older brother was really into guns (he could quote the ballistics charts of every round) and took us to the base firing range. They had 6 or so range guns, all 513-T models, that you could check out to use. We shot off a rest, with peep sights, at a single large bullseye target at 100 yards. No charge for the guns or targets.
I remember we walked to the range, stopping at a very small range shop that sold us a couple of boxes of Western Super-X ammo for 65 cents. Most of my shots were in the white scoring rings at least, but it was really cool. We made that trip many times. I would always search the trash cans and pick up any fired brass that was there. To this day I am still using the nickel Western .38 Special wadcutter cases I found there, and still have those empty boxes they came in.
Over the years, I had always wanted a 513-T, for nostalgia's sake, but never got around to getting one. A year after we were married, my wife wanted to buy me a gun for my birthday and I told her this story. She said to go find one on Gunbroker and bought it for me.
Never put a scope on it to see what it prefers, but I know it likes Eley a lot and some others. In keeping with the tradition, I usually feed it the same stuff we used back in 1965.
Spent a lot of time just picking off clay target pieces at 50 and 100 yards from the bench, then a little bit shooting it offhand, going through 100 rounds. It was absolutely enjoyable. This one will always occupy a special place in the safe.