kydave
03-20-2016, 12:35 PM
I'm Dave (Kentucky Dave is what the user name is for), born & raised in Louisville, but I've lived in Northern California well over half my life now. When I first moved to the Eureka/Arcata area I was a partner in a restaurant briefly. One other partner was David, and the head cook was Dave, so I became "Kentucky Dave". It stuck as my stage name while playing music up there.
Learned to shoot at an indoor NRA range in Junior NRA as a kid in the '50s in downtown Louisville. My first rifle was a 30-40 Krag my granddad gave me at 19; my first pistol was a S&W model 19 I bought when I hit 21.
I'm not as active a shooter since I moved to Silicon Valley and the Bay Area after living in far Northern California, where I was a range master at a lovely large range in the redwoods and carried CCW. I have maintained my USPSA membership though. I'm a Life NRA member.
I played music for much or all of my living from the late '60s through the '80s, then decided to "grow up" and went back to college, then law school. I make a living in law now and it lets me buy more guitars and guns than I could as a working musician. :smile-new:
I don't know squat about Savage guns, other than always liking the lines and patina of an old, well used, model 99. I decided to keep my eye out for one in .308 locally, which took a while, but the timing worked out & I got one this month for my 65th birthday present from me to me. Took it out to the range Friday (day before yesterday) and, for 65 year old eyes shooting a 60 year old rifle with an inexpensive Lyman 4x scope as old as the rifle probably, I was a happy camper. After dialing in the scope and playing around with a few different bullet weights I had sitting around from my other .308's (an LR-308 and Remington 750) I ended up the day with a couple of 1" groups of 4 rounds, the last one in the bull at 100 yards.
http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn118/kydave_pics/Noisemakers/Savage%20Model%2099%20A.jpg
http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn118/kydave_pics/Noisemakers/Savage%20Target%20First%20Outing.jpg
http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn118/kydave_pics/Noisemakers/031816%20Range%20BDay%20Trip.jpg
Looking forward to learning things Savage!
Thanks folks!
Dave
Learned to shoot at an indoor NRA range in Junior NRA as a kid in the '50s in downtown Louisville. My first rifle was a 30-40 Krag my granddad gave me at 19; my first pistol was a S&W model 19 I bought when I hit 21.
I'm not as active a shooter since I moved to Silicon Valley and the Bay Area after living in far Northern California, where I was a range master at a lovely large range in the redwoods and carried CCW. I have maintained my USPSA membership though. I'm a Life NRA member.
I played music for much or all of my living from the late '60s through the '80s, then decided to "grow up" and went back to college, then law school. I make a living in law now and it lets me buy more guitars and guns than I could as a working musician. :smile-new:
I don't know squat about Savage guns, other than always liking the lines and patina of an old, well used, model 99. I decided to keep my eye out for one in .308 locally, which took a while, but the timing worked out & I got one this month for my 65th birthday present from me to me. Took it out to the range Friday (day before yesterday) and, for 65 year old eyes shooting a 60 year old rifle with an inexpensive Lyman 4x scope as old as the rifle probably, I was a happy camper. After dialing in the scope and playing around with a few different bullet weights I had sitting around from my other .308's (an LR-308 and Remington 750) I ended up the day with a couple of 1" groups of 4 rounds, the last one in the bull at 100 yards.
http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn118/kydave_pics/Noisemakers/Savage%20Model%2099%20A.jpg
http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn118/kydave_pics/Noisemakers/Savage%20Target%20First%20Outing.jpg
http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn118/kydave_pics/Noisemakers/031816%20Range%20BDay%20Trip.jpg
Looking forward to learning things Savage!
Thanks folks!
Dave