CHIEF AJ ON RIFLES:
(Since Chief AJ shot a world record back in '87, He has fine tuned over 10,000 rifle for customers in the Tribal Workshop. Over the past 20 years the has brought out many unique field rifles and conducted a Rifle Shooting Camp in Central Illinois teaching Moving Target Marksmanship with a rifle).
Small paint balls tossed in the air and a Chief AJ bb gun is a hoot!!!
Chief AJ really likes to talk rifles and what He has to say is back up by shooting over two million rounds (2,000,000). As the old saying goes what happens down range is what counts. One of the most interesting conservation's the Chief has about rifles was with Gunny Sgt. Carols Hatchcock. Carols made this statement: "A rifleman is like a golfer in that He needs a bag full of rifles for different kinds of shots". This is for sure one type of rifle can not do all things in field shoots, target shooting or hunting.
A forward mounted "Scout Rifle" is not a bench rest rifle. A rifle that shoots its best from a bench is too heavy for good field use. A rifle to teach and learn quick point shooting with will have open sights or no sights. Have barrel rifles with high power scopes have a very narrow field of view and it is hard to fine a small target down range with.
The trend today among so-call gun writers (typewriter jockeys) is how will a rifle "group", as if they have a freezer full of groups. All manner of gadgets are being sold to slip on your barrel to make it "group" better. Bottles of "group tighten" are being sold to swab out your bore with. How a rifle groups is only important to bench rest
competition shooter anyway. When my gunsmith son-in-law was being charged by a Grizzly Bear in Alaska he need to make one stopping shot which He did with His .416 Mag rifle.
Note: A .416 Mag is not fun to shoot groups but it blows big bears backwards. While we are the subject of bog bore rifles here a good one. The African guide with his big rifles sighted them is this way, A 7:00 O' Clock in the morning for seven days in row he would take one shot at the same target always with a cold barrel. If after 7 days and 7 shots if the sights need to be adjusted he would do so. It is how a cold barrel delivers that first shot is important to a hunter or
security force. For a rifle to shoot the same hot and cold you need a heavy fluted barrel. A pencil barrel with walk as it heats up. A light rifle is good for 3 shoots close together and that is the way Col. Cooper designed the Scout Rifle. A Scout Rifle to use only if
necessary and then as little as possible.
Chief AJ hears this about Scout or Field Rifles, "I went to range with my new Scout and it would not group tight after firing 30 or 40 rounds". Or: "I had my Scout all sights is at the range but I missed a coyote in the field". Here's what happen they sight in a hot barrel. I like to shoot groups and did shoot a 50 yd 10 shot group .224" in 30 seconds to win a $1,000.00 shoot off for 10/22 custom bull barrel rifles. That 10 shot hole was just a litter bigger that a .22 bullet. That was during the 1994 Dallas Shot Show a the Dallas City Park shooting range. That bull barreled 10/22 that I build up that shoot-out was a 10 pound rifle with a air-gun scope for air-gun scopes haft to be built better. All I use that rifle for was shoot'en groups.
At Rifle Camp to teach people marksmanship standing on their two hind legs I do not use a heavy bull barred rifle. I use the 6 pound forward mounted Scout Rifle and the Catamount Rifle of my own design. There training rifles are in semi-auto .22 lr for my clients learn moving target marksmanship by shooting and doing. The more rounds fired under my supervision the quicker the skill is learned. These rifles have the standard barrel and they just keep shooting all day when alternated with 2 or 3 similar rifles while the hot one cools.
To have a training .22 semi-auto rifle like the camp scout it is necessary to send in your barrel to the Tribal Workshop to have the scout mount installed. For the Catamount new 2007 Camp Rifle you have the Chief send you the Catamount Package that you can install your self.
Chief AJ, 505 S. Main, Tuscola, IL 61953. chiefaj@yahoo.com
Catamount Package: Special Catseye variable power Scope for shot and long range shooting. Proper mount for your 10/22 to obtain the correct scope position with right eye relief. Matching rings along with instructions for the conversion of your 10/22 in the Rifle Camp "CATAMOUNT" Quick as a cat rifle. The package will make your 10/22 ready for extreme shooting. Rifle Camp DVD included also. $135.00 post paid in USA. Visa or MC can be FAXed to 12172532959 or call in order (217) 253-2959, by snail mail: Chief AJ, POB 131, Tuscola, IL 62954-0131. personal cks OK and will be held until bank clearance.
