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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: FLOOB on June 15, 2016, 12:30:27 PM
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Mine was a savage model 72. Single shot 22 rifle with a horrendous trigger, so basically a good youth rifle.
(http://www.trapshooters.com/attachments/sccja57_2008_03039-jpg.221235/)
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Yugo SKS I bought in 2004 for $95
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Yugo SKS I bought in 2004 for $95
NOOOOB! :aok
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first one I could "own" was an m16-a2.
semp
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Ruger 10/22 LR with standard 10 round clip and optional 30 round banana clip.
oh the fun, a Squirt can never had it so good. :rock
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"Banana Clip". Haha. :banana:
10/22 as well, stainless, but no "bananas", I had to make do with 10 round rotary "magazines" until I delivered enough papers to afford my first high cap magazines for it. Some sort of cheapy 4x scope as well, I can't recall the type as I upgraded to a decent optic soon after. Built many 10/22s since then in various configs, but still have the original stock one.
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Does this count?
(http://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/MTIwMFgxNjAw/z/1HIAAOSwgQ9VouhT/$_35.JPG)
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(http://media.liveauctiongroup.net/i/7914/9442379_1.jpg?v=8CCB47936298310)
you will notice it is a real toy gun....none of this PC orange plastic tip rubbish
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My brother and I shared a Remington Model 514 single shot 22 rifle.
The first firearm I bought was a Ruger 10/22...bought it in '69 I think, cost me $49. Still have it.
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Daisy "Model 25" BB gun.
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Grew up in a family without them. Bought a used HK USP 45 in 1999.
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Remington 514
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I have that exact gun floob, was my 3rd gun actually. My first was a bb gun, then a tiny .22, believe it was a Remington. It's now my daughter's and so is the savage like one you posted.
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Ruger Black Powder 45. My best friend had the stainless steel model, I got the blued one. Accurate, not a bad kick, and if you shot a hollow point, well, anyone who has shot a low velocity 45 knows what damage it will do.
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A spoon and a blunt stick :old:
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Rock Island 1911. :rock
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Yugo SKS I bought in 2004 for $95
Same gun, different year, for a MUCH higher price...
(http://i217.photobucket.com/albums/cc74/Serene_One/2A%20RKBA/DSCN0614.jpg) (http://s217.photobucket.com/user/Serene_One/media/2A%20RKBA/DSCN0614.jpg.html)
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When I was a youngling, I made my own gun by gluing 4.5 popsicle sticks and a clothespin together. It shot a rubber band about 10 feet. In the fourth grade I brought it to school and a teacher took it, and I had to talk to the principle to get it back at the end of the day, with a promise not to take it back to school. I probably broke it after that, I don't really remember.
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Daisy BB gun at 7
Winchester Model 12 shotgun at 16 from grandpa
Winchester Model 94 at 18 my first purchase
My kids (3) all got
BB guns at 7
Ruger 10/22 at 10
Shotguns at 16
and then on their 18th birthday I took them to the gun store and they filled out their first DROS and I purchased what ever rifle they wanted. Both my boys got scoped .30-06s My daughter got a SMITH AND WESSON M&P AR-15 She is the smart one :D
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Colt I-22 .22LR. I'm the only person I've ever met who had one. Still a tack-driver.
- oldman
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Daisy bb/pellet, then .410 Savage-Stevens single shot with a curved to the left barrel I made work.
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Does this count?
(http://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/MTIwMFgxNjAw/z/1HIAAOSwgQ9VouhT/$_35.JPG)
Dolby OP said first your first gun not your current one :devil
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First one I saved for and purchased was Remington 1100 12g shotgun. I bucked family tradition as everyone else had 870's. Pump action?! Nah i just wanna pull the trigger :x
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First one I "owned" was a gift from my father. It was a .22 marlin bolt action. Still shoots tacks :)
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Sears model 25 auto loading 22.
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First was a pump style bb / pellet gun. I don't recall the brand. First I purchased, S&W model 28 4" .357 Highway Patrolman. Actually carried it for a short time on duty years later until I bought a model 66. Sadly let a girlfriend borrow it as a way to keep her safe in a sketchy neighborhood. Never got it back. :angry:
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Dolby OP said first your first gun not your current one :devil
My current gun in holding the bullet in my hand and throwing it really fast :uhoh
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.243 Win bolt rifle. Looked like a model 70 but wasn't.
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A Ben Pearson compound bow. :rock
Later a diesel powered air rifle :rofl
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50 cal Hawken. Only guns my dad would allow in the house were black powder (he had about 6 of them, including an awesome Remington Model 1858).
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my first weapon was a stick and a rock.ya I'm old school like that! :devil
:salute
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50 cal Hawken.
Just like Jeremiah Johnson :aok
my first weapon was a stick and a rock.ya I'm old school like that! :devil
Was the rock fastened to the stick in an Apache flop head club stylee?
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First gun ever was a Red Ryder BB gun....and yes I shot myself in the eye with it...well...actually I was shooting at one of those big punch balloons (if your in your 40s you will know what im talking about) and it bounced back and hit me in the eye....5 days in the hospital, no ill effects. Should change my call sign to Ralphie :D
First real gun... Savage 99 in 308 when I was 10..and it hasn't stopped since then
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Built my first gun at Age 7 Hawken Black Powder Rifle and Pistol then shot. Was fun but threw me a few feet back
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1937 Remington 22 pump with an octagon barrel, parents used it to shoot rabbits and snakes and other little critters when this area was still farmland and fairly open, still have it, I guess to many were produced for it to be valuable money wise, but either way I wouldn't part with it.
Ps supplemented my gun need much later on in the late 70's with a S & W 357 4 inch barrel, still have that one too
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Just like Jeremiah Johnson :aok
Damn fine movie!!
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1937 Remington 22 pump with an octagon barrel, parents used it to shoot rabbits and snakes and other little critters when this area was still farmland and fairly open, still have it, I guess to many were produced for it to be valuable money wise, but either way I wouldn't part with it.
Ps supplemented my gun need much later on in the late 70's with a S & W 357 4 inch barrel, still have that one too
Price depends...... for a 22 some of those are pretty pricey.
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AFter seeing a few BB gun replies, if we're counting air rifles, I too had a Daisy BB rifle (smoothbore, but whatever) for a couple years prior to getting a .22. Pop used to buy the large containers of BBs in the bulk packages, and I wore 1 rifle out, and got "up gunned" to a better model with a bit higher velocity, when the first Daisy died.
"You'll shoot your eye out". My parents, sadists that they were, enrolled me in a French immersion school from k to 8. I had a teacher actually give me that line, but in French - " beaucoup garcon perdue les oilles par cette pellet la". He tried and failed to intercede on that xmas present with my Father. Nearly doomed in a 2nd language at age 11...
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First real gun... Savage 99 in 308
Nice! Do you still have it?
- oldman
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Was the rock fastened to the stick in an Apache flop head club stylee?
I hadnt advanced that far,but I know better now and have a war club based off the Iroquoian Natives war clubs!
I do have an old daisey,it's from the mid 1950's and the only marks are found on the lever. It's a old beach wood stocked version but need the piston serviced..... BB's basically drop out the barrel.... :rofl
:salute
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AK 47 during stupid comunist mandatory military service; wasted 1.5 years of my life sleeping in 40 beds overcrowded rooms, weekly group showers with cold water like cows, stinky kaki clothes, boots chewing bleeding my legs during marches, eatting potatoes /beans mixed bacon and sand and drinking tea with bromide .
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First real gun I used a lot was my old mans FN Browning .22lr pump action (trombone). It's been passed down through the family, and he's not using it anymore so it's coming my way permanently.
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1967 bought a 12 gauge Browning Trap gun, single barrel, single shot. I still have it and I still shoot Trap at the range/gun club.
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Daisy BB gun and pellet gun, specifically these:
(https://p2.liveauctioneers.com/1250/34120/14014132_1_l.jpg)
First gunpowder guns, Marlin 795 (.22 rifle) and Maverick 20 gauge.
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Beretta 92FS 9mm, Italian-made with the straight lower frame "dust cover" (they taper some now).
Although my parents bought numbers-marching U.S. Border Patrol Commemorative .357 Magnums for we kiddos long before I could even pick one up. Maybe that's my true first.
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First fired? 22 revolver
First owned? Makarov
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First fired? My father's flintlock when I was around 8.
First one sort of my own? M16A2
First one I really owned? Glock 26
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Nice! Do you still have it?
- oldman
Sure do.....If there was ever a rifle that falls into the "from my cold dead hands" saying...that's the one. Dad gave it to me for Xmas 1981. Its a 99f. I also have a 99EG Post war 1947 Utica NY MFG in 300 Savage, untapped open sights but grooved for a Lyman adjustable peep....
One of these days im going to get an original 1895/1899mfg rifle (hopefully) at a price point that wont make my wife force me to sleep on the couch. (although I insisted when we bought the new couch it was really comfortable :D #winning) For the last 35yrs I've been collecting high end rifles.....Just like my father did when he was alive.
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First pellet gun was a Daisy...I was 7 or 8...one of the ones you pump up...I broke it hitting a possum...things like that happen in the heat of battle...
First firearm I was 10...it was a Marlin .22 with a 7 shot clip my dad allowed me to use...it was mine to use but was his, until I decided to take it apart to clean...I watched the spring fly across the room and never could find it...then it was a single shot and it was really mine...with a long lecture about breaking his chit...
Few years after that I inherited a pair of 20 gauge mossbergs...a bolt action with clip and a pump action that I use to this day...
First firearm I bought...I was 15 and bought my dad a 15 shot tube fed Marlin .22 off a cousin of ours...and it of course was mine to use but it was his...it was the only gun I was able to buy him before he died...
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My grandsons are presented with a Marlin or Savage .22 when they reach the age of 12 or 13, depending on my opinion of their maturity. Prior to that we spend time either on a regular range (Sheriff opens it to public twice a week) or in the back yard using pellet guns or 22 shorts / quiet into a metal target holder backstop. If they do not handle and treat the weapon to MY satisfaction they don't get one.
My granddaughters are also given the option, a rifle like their brothers or a high end sewing machine, their choice.
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My first and onlyone was Valmet RK62 76. I had it 9 months in 1980. Have forgot serialnumber tho :D.
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First gun, like many others Red Ryder BB gun
First gun fired 22 cal bolt action Remington
First gun that was mine, Russian SKS
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A Westinghouse model 25 phase plasma rifle in the 40 watt range
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A Westinghouse model 25 phase plasma rifle in the 40 watt range
Only what you see here, pal -- only what you see here.
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I inherited a Springfield .22 single shot just like the one below as soon as I was big enough to pick it up. Probably 6-8 years old. I sill have it. My brother had a Remington .22 multi shot that I used a lot and occasionally I'd grab Dad's Savage 30/30. The buckhorn sights were cool.
(http://webpages.charter.net/wayned/Springfield%20M-15%2022RF.JPG)
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Beretta 92FS 9mm, Italian-made with the straight lower frame "dust cover" (they taper some now).
Although my parents bought numbers-MATCHING U.S. Border Patrol Commemorative .357 Magnums for we kiddos long before I could even pick one up. Maybe that's my true first.
FIXED. Stupid typos..
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First gun I shot was my Papa's gun from when he was a kid, an old springfield .22 bolt action rifle. I packed that from the time I was about 4 until I was 7 then he moved me up to a .270 winchester which I bagged my first deer with. My first gun I purchased is a Savage 110 30-06... Not a bad rifle and easily manageable by the girliest of girls when shooting 165's... but throw some Hornady light magnum rounds in there and it can pack quite the punch (superperformance now or whatever they call them) :rock
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My grandfather's 410 shotgun. This same gun is now being used by my grandson. :old:
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My grandfather's 410 shotgun. This same gun is now being used by my grandson. :old:
Long time no see my friend :salute Was wondering about you the other day...hope all is well :cheers:
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Good to see you too ole buddy. :salute
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Good to see you too ole buddy.
Good lord, look what the armadillo dragged in! Dude!
- oldman
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Ruger 10/22 Carbine when I was 11 and my dad got me Ramline 50rnd mags for it.
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Any opinions, one of my sons just picked up his first gun, a Walther P22 rim fire to learn on and plink with
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:D
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but in 1st grade......I got this !!!!!!
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:D
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I'm not sure when one I got first, but it was either a break action 4-10 or a Winchester 30-30.
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First one that was given to me was a 1994 ruger .22, which was given to me on my 1st birthday in 1995. First one I bought a 1943 SA M1 Garand that I bought from my dads first cousin for a very good deal :D
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My first real firearm (after several BB and pellet guns and pistols) was a Remington 514 single shot .22 rifle. My dad got from someone and gave it to me. My next firearm was a shiny new Marlin 60 semi-auto .22, for Christmas, 1967.
Since then, I've owned many different rifles, shotguns and handguns. My wife says she lost count years ago....
My most recent purchase was a 583 series, heavy barrel Mini-14. Stainless Steel with polymer stock and holographic reflex sight. Never owned one before, and I have a pretty good selection of so-called "assault rifles" and semi-autos in the safe. As an all-around utility rifle, I'm beginning to prefer it to the rest. Accurate enough, great balance, utterly dependable. Ruger has brought the Mini-14 a long way since the older versions. This and my old, but much upgraded, Marlin 9 are my favorite "fun" rifles.
(http://i1237.photobucket.com/albums/ff480/Tredlite/IMG_0996a.jpg)
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My fist firearm was a .22 / .410 over and under which my father bought me when I was about 10 years of age.
The second firearm my father bought me was an Anschutz .22 target rifle after I had been firing Remington 40X's and had attained NRA Expert qualifications at the indoor 50 foot range.
I did not earn the NRA Distinguished Expert award for 50 feet because I joined the Army two days after my 17th birthday, and shortly thereafter, I earned the Army's Expert Marksmanship Badge firing the M-14 rifle. A few years later, when I was in Marine Corps boot camp, I missed breaking the range record by 1 point whilst firing the M-14. I've never fired less than Expert in the military, whether pistol, or rifle.
At age 65, I don' see too well without help, but don't risk your life upon it because I was trained in the foundations of shooting.
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Dad bought me a tube fed semi auto Marlin .22 LR and a single shot break open 410 gauge shotgun around 10 years old. Got a lot of plinking and hunting done with those two guns!
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My first was in France, a 8mm 1911.
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At age 65, I don' see too well without help, but don't risk your life upon it because I was trained in the foundations of shooting.
I'm 63 and I've needed reading glasses since my mid 50's. This was problematic with conventional rifle sights. I could wear glasses and focus on the sights. I could not wear glasses and focus on my target. I could not do both. Peep sights were better, but the front post is still pretty fuzzy.
My options were to put a long eye relief scope on everything or seek another solution.
I found that solution in a holographic reflex sight. I can use the red dot or the red crosshair. Beyond 50 yards, the dot is better as it obscures less of the target. I now have four rifles and one shotgun fitted with these optical sights. For distances beyond 100 yards a standard rifle scope is a better choice. My Remington is fitted with a Leupold, the Savage has a Nikon and the JW-15 (.22 LR) does well with a 4x 30mm Simmons. That 25 year-old JW-15 (Chinese knock-off of the CZ-455), is a genuine tack driver. On a windless day, at 100 yards, you can cover a 10 shot group with a nickel...
For shorter range shooting, the holographic is ideal for me. Because both eyes are open, my field of vision is normal, helping to acquire targets and spot motion. A great solution of home defense guns (carbine or shotgun). Dots and reticles are adjustable for brightness. Various manufacturers, but not very expensive for good quality sights. Even the $30 models work well enough for plinkers. Fits on Weaver bases, but Picatinny rails are best and are made for most long arms.
(http://i1237.photobucket.com/albums/ff480/Tredlite/Marlin%209.jpg)
(http://i1237.photobucket.com/albums/ff480/Tredlite/HampR%20Protector.jpg)
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Widewing, I found that is you use computer glasses they can substitute for shooting as well. Since they are focused a couple feet out using them can keep the front sight crisp. Works great with handguns as well.
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Widewing, I found that is you use computer glasses they can substitute for shooting as well. Since they are focused a couple feet out using them can keep the front sight crisp. Works great with handguns as well.
That used to work for me when my diopter was 1.25 or 1.50.
These days I'm at 2.25, which means things at distance are a blur. With the holographic I can wear my bifocal shooting glasses, because the dot and reticle are sharp with or without them.
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I got 20/20 vision at distance but I have been using reading glasses last couple of years. I cant see the sights either.
semp
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I got 20/20 vision at distance but I have been using reading glasses last couple of years. I cant see the sights either.
semp
Try the Holographic sight... First find a rail for your rifle or shotgun:
https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_c_2_9?url=search-alias%3Dsports-and-fitness&field-keywords=picatinny+rail&sprefix=picatinny%2Caps%2C124 (https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_c_2_9?url=search-alias%3Dsports-and-fitness&field-keywords=picatinny+rail&sprefix=picatinny%2Caps%2C124)
Then pick an inexpensive generic sight:
https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_i_1_11?url=search-alias%3Dsports-and-fitness&field-keywords=holographic+sight&sprefix=Holographic%2Csports-and-fitness%2C124&rh=i%3Asports-and-fitness%2Ck%3Aholographic+sight (https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_i_1_11?url=search-alias%3Dsports-and-fitness&field-keywords=holographic+sight&sprefix=Holographic%2Csports-and-fitness%2C124&rh=i%3Asports-and-fitness%2Ck%3Aholographic+sight)
Then, mount both and go zero the sight. Should make a world of difference for you.