H&R 999 sportsman

[imyomama]

quick video on the h&r sportsman 22lr .. cool old break open gun
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[RifleBowPistol]

They are pretty good little guns, my grandfather gave me one y ages ago.

I don’t see any video.

[dclifton]

Neat guns! One sold on here a few years ago cheap and i missed it... Would sure like to have one.

[imyomama]

They are pretty good little guns, my grandfather gave me one y ages ago.

I don’t see any video.

not sure what to tell you .. link works for me .. they are a piece of conversation for sure ... i don't shoot it well .. barrel is really thin and light.. it's hard to hold still .. but if you aim right , it shoots where it points .. it's just hard to do for me for some reason ...

i just love how you open it and get the cases out after you shoot.. makes it fun to shoot..

[RifleBowPistol]

not sure what to tell you .. link works for me .. they are a piece of conversation for sure ... i don't shoot it well .. barrel is really thin and light.. it's hard to hold still .. but if you aim right , it shoots where it points .. it's just hard to do for me for some reason ...

i just love how you open it and get the cases out after you shoot.. makes it fun to shoot..

When I got on my phone earlier, when I made that post. All I could see, was what you wrote then a large blank green area, below what you wrote. I see the video now, on my laptop.

The 999s don't have the best triggers, they are not horrible, but definitely not a target pistol trigger. I did some work on the trigger on my gun. It shoots ok. Never taken it hunting, but it should make a good rabbit gun.

I would guess, I have had mine, since I was 15 or so. My grandfather loaned us a pair of very nice High Standard Victor target pistols, with vent ribs and barrel weights, under the barrels. He did this when I was probably 14. I remember he found out I had gotten very good with handguns and then he showed up one day with those two Hi Standard Victors. Just out of the blue, and said he wanted me/us to use them and enjoy them. So I shot those a lot for about a year, maybe year and a half. Loved those guns, they were nice. Then one day he showed up and wanted his pistols back. So we gave them back.
Then on the same trip or shortly afterwards, he showed up with a H&R 999 and told me that was my gun. It was cool, but sure would have loved to have had one of those Hi Standard Victors. Never saw either of those Hi Standards again, I bet my uncle has them, but he claims he did not find any guns in my grandfather's house, after he died. I know somebody cleaned out a lot of guns, after my grandfather died.

[imyomama]

When I got on my phone earlier, when I made that post. All I could see, was what you wrote then a large blank green area, below what you wrote. I see the video now, on my laptop.

The 999s don't have the best triggers, they are not horrible, but definitely not a target pistol trigger. I did some work on the trigger on my gun. It shoots ok. Never taken it hunting, but it should make a good rabbit gun.

I would guess, I have had mine, since I was 15 or so. My grandfather loaned us a pair of very nice High Standard Victor target pistols, with vent ribs and barrel weights, under the barrels. He did this when I was probably 14. I remember he found out I had gotten very good with handguns and then he showed up one day with those two Hi Standard Victors. Just out of the blue, and said he wanted me/us to use them and enjoy them. So I shot those a lot for about a year, maybe year and a half. Loved those guns, they were nice. Then one day he showed up and wanted his pistols back. So we gave them back.
Then on the same trip or shortly afterwards, he showed up with a H&R 999 and told me that was my gun. It was cool, but sure would have loved to have had one of those Hi Standard Victors. Never saw either of those Hi Standards again, I bet my uncle has them, but he claims he did not find any guns in my grandfather's house, after he died. I know somebody cleaned out a lot of guns, after my grandfather died.

I had a HS victor 25 years ago, when i was shooting speed matches at the club .didn't keep it for long , it was cool and accurate but not reliable.. ended up will a bull barrel ruger mk2 . had a browning buckmark too, but none could compete with the mk2 .

[RifleBowPistol]

I had a HS victor 25 years ago, when i was shooting speed matches at the club .didn't keep it for long , it was cool and accurate but not reliable.. ended up will a bull barrel ruger mk2 . had a browning buckmark too, but none could compete with the mk2 .

We never had any problems with either of my grandfather's Victors. We had some Ruger Mark 1s, they were ok, but neither were favorites of mine. Both of the Rugers we had were heavy barrel guns. We never had any problems with either of the Mark Is, but they were definitely not my favorite 22 pistol. I never liked Rugers mag release. Then they would be nicer guns, if they had a grip with a thumb rest, more like the Hi Standard Victor.
I would like to try a Browning Buck Mark, but have never got a chance to shoot one. I have shot a old Colt Woodsman, they are nice guns. I also had one of the S&W 22 pistols, of similar design to the others listed. It was a pretty good gun for the money. That gun, I used for shooting a lot of coons, and squirrels. I think that was the only 22 pistol I ever used for hunting.

[imyomama]

We never had any problems with either of my grandfather's Victors. We had some Ruger Mark 1s, they were ok, but neither were favorites of mine. Both of the Rugers we had were heavy barrel guns. We never had any problems with either of the Mark Is, but they were definitely not my favorite 22 pistol. I never liked Rugers mag release. Then they would be nicer guns, if they had a grip with a thumb rest, more like the Hi Standard Victor.
I would like to try a Browning Buckmark, but have never got a chance to shoot one. I have shot a old Colt Woodsman, they are nice guns. I also had one of the S&W 22 pistols, of similar design to the others listed. It was a pretty good gun for the money. That gun, I used for shooting a lot of coons, and squirrels. I think that was the only 22 pistol I ever used for hunting.

at the club, the rugers were dominating everyone except for one guy who had a smith 41 .. but I think it was the shooter more than anything.

course of fire was 6 plates at 25 yards left to right 3 times then right to left . 6 rounds in the gun .. low ready ... you miss.. you have to reload .. people couldn't miss fast enough ... this was a head to head match .. all you have to do is beat the guy you're running against ... it was a ton of fun!

get a FTF , FTF ,FTE ,or miss ... and you pretty much lost . hit all 36 without a miss and you'd get a cap that says i cleaned my plate.. win a match and you'd get a cap that says master of the rack ...

we shot 22lr in the morning and big bore in the afternoon.. it was super fun!

[imyomama]

the one on the right was my NRA hunters pistol cap .. i would put nra pins on it from the nra pistol match .. 40,50,75 and 100 meters with pistols shooting steel .. TC's would domante that game and we had 2 national champs at the club we could learn from .. they were GOOD ! i sure miss those days ... ammo was cheap and abundant , matches were $5 !

[RifleBowPistol]

at the club, the rugers were dominating everyone except for one guy who had a smith 41 .. but I think it was the shooter more than anything.

course of fire was 6 plates at 25 yards left to right 3 times then right to left . 6 rounds in the gun .. low ready ... you miss.. you have to reload .. people couldn't miss fast enough ... this was a head to head match .. all you have to do is beat the guy you're running against ... it was a ton of fun!

get a FTF , FTF ,FTE ,or miss ... and you pretty much lost . hit all 36 without a miss and you'd get a cap that says i cleaned my plate.. win a match and you'd get a cap that says master of the rack ...

we shot 22lr in the morning and big bore in the afternoon.. it was super fun!

My favorite thing to do with my Smith, was shoot plates. I made my own rack of plates. All of the plates I had shot at range, were all the same height and diameter. After time, it gets very easy to slowly swing and pop plates.

So when I made my rack of plates, I made three diameter plates, with the largest being 4", then 3" and 2". Then I put plates of those three sizes on different height stands. So you have to aim at each plate, not just smoothly swing the pistol through the plates. I think my rack of plates has 7 plates on it. So when you don't miss, you have two rounds left in the mag. Some times after resetting the plates, I would reload, some times, I would start with whatever was left in the mag. I got a lot better at shooting plates and shooting moving critters with that gun.

I could walk outside and shoot at least three days a week, sometimes more. But usually did not shoot that often. But I would shoot typically 300 rounds, to upwards of 1500 rounds, each time I shot plates. I could invite other people over to shoot plates, each one, would figure out my rack of plates was not easy to go seven for seven. When I was shooting regularly, I could shoot seven for seven, most of the time. When I had not shot in a while, it would typically take all nine rounds to hit seven.

My style rack of plates, definitely makes you a lot better at hitting multiple targets very quickly. More so than the common rack of plates.

I used to love to take a CZ 75 and shoot plates, I got pretty fast, on the range plates. I shot the range plates with 22s, but they were made for center fire pistols. So to knock them over with a 22, you had to shoot the plates near the top edge or they would not fall over. At times, I would just try to put all 9 rounds into one plate as fast as possible and knock it over with the last few rounds, but still hit it with all nine rounds before it would fall.

My brother and I used to come up with all types of things, when we had the pistol and rifle ranges to our selves. We could go out to the range, when a sporting clay match was going on. Everyone else would be shooting sporting clays, so the rifle and pistol ranges were empty. We could burn up a lot of rounds on those days.

Yes, it was great, when ammo and all of the components to make ammo were a lot cheaper, than in the past 15 to 20 years. Back in the 80s and 90s, I used to shoot a hell of a lot of rounds every month, ridiculous amount of ammo every year. Back then I was not married, so I could spend my money on what I wanted to spend it on. Then ammo, powder, bullets, primers were a lot cheaper. So I was able to shoot a lot. I really miss those days.