[Leica] Re: Guns and Leicas

[marcsmall at comcast.net (Marc James Small)]

An interesting thread this has become!

I learned to shoot in 1962 and spent years around 
the military, during which time I owned no guns, 
though I got to fire a lot of ordnance up to 
155mm howitzers.  So, I got my first Leica before 
I actually got my rifle, which I only purchased in 1994.

I now have five Leica cameras (IIIc, IIIf RDST, 
IIIg, M3 DS, and M6 Wetzlar) and a single 
firearm, a 1909 Argentine Mauser rechambered to 
.30-'06 -- I did put a nice Kiev 3X to 10X scope 
on it, made by the same folks who brought us all 
of those Contax RF clones and Kiev MF cameras.

Now my wife is a different story:  she came with 
an arsenal ranging from a Remington 700 in 
.22-250, a rather interesting round, to a .22 
Ruger match pistol.  I do have ammunition for my 
Mauser and her Remington, which I keep in a safe with the bolts.

I haven't fired in a couple of years but I 
probably will do some target shooting this autumn.

Marc


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