{"id":129,"date":"2004-08-24T20:48:02","date_gmt":"2004-08-25T01:48:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/69.50.194.231\/~vqplgdbg\/?p=129"},"modified":"2004-08-24T20:48:02","modified_gmt":"2004-08-25T01:48:02","slug":"another-confession","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=129","title":{"rendered":"Another confession"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After having determined that I cannot shoot my beloved Remington 241 offhand worth a damn, and unwilling to accept that it could be my fault, I headed off to the range on Sunday to see if I could improve my aim.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"ammo.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/archives\/ammo.jpg\" width=\"415\" height=\"253\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I had most of the imaginable types of ammo available, CCI green tag, Remington target, Federal premier, and PMC. All of it got measured against my benchmark, Remington Golden Bullets. The remingtons are cheap, shoot well, and feed reliably in everything I&#8217;ve got to shoot them. I just wanted to see if it was me, or the ammo.<\/p>\n<p>It is me. I got exactly the same results, statistically, with each type of ammo, and frankly, it means that for my purposes, there&#8217;s never any point in buying the expensive stuff except for the high end benchrest match rifles, and even that is questionable. <\/p>\n<p>I even pulled the barrel off the other 241 (yes, I have two) and shot it for a while, it made no difference. I so wanted to be a great shot with this rifle, and I&#8217;m just not.  Again, all the niceness in the world means nothing when you can&#8217;t<br \/>\nhit what you&#8217;re aiming at.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After having determined that I cannot shoot my beloved Remington 241 offhand worth a damn, and unwilling to accept that it could be my fault, I headed off to the range on Sunday to see if I could improve my aim. I had most of the imaginable types of ammo available, CCI green tag, Remington [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}