Monday FGS
Varney shooting leaves one dead, no charges filed
By JARRID McCORMICK
A man was killed in a shooting Tuesday, Oct. 8, in the Varney area of Mingo County.Steven Wolford, 41, from Gilbert died as a result of injuries sustained in the shooting, according to the West Virginia State Police.
Troopers said that the shooter was a man in his 20s from the Delbarton area, who acted in self defense. No charges have been filed.
The shooting happened just after 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 8, along Topaz Lane.
Police said that Wolford had been shot multiple times and was not responsive when paramedics arrived. He was airlifted to Pikeville Medical Center, where he died from his injuries.
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Read the article here: Williamson Daily News
Police not ruling out self-defense after crash leads to deadly I-75 shooting
Case may go before NKY prosecutor
Fort Wright Police Chief Ed Butler said authorities are not ruling out the possibility of self-defense in a deadly road rage shooting on Interstate 75 on Friday afternoon.
Butler, who spoke at a scene still blocked off by police vehicles, said the incident started around 1:30 with a collision involving two cars between Dixie Highway and Kyles Lane.
Shots were fired shortly afterward near the exit onto Kyles Lane. By the time ambulances arrived, one man had been shot and badly wounded. He died at University of Cincinnati Medical Center before 4 p.m.
“It ended in tragedy. What led up to that tragedy is what we have to figure out,” Butler said.
Butler said investigators would continue to speak to witnesses and learn more about the crash. The victim’s name has not yet been released.
The police chief said they’re also looking into the possibility of the shooter firing in self-defense.
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Read the rest here: WCPO.com
“A militia, when properly formed, are in fact the people themselves…and include all men capable of bearing arms.” (Richard Henry Lee, Additional Letters from the Federal Farmer [1788] at 169)
Category: Feel Good Stories
Good to know that 2 more bags of potential trash have been removed from society. Wonder how much the Med-e-Vac is gonna cost the taxpayer? Wasted trip. What caused the road rage accident? Snowflake got triggered by the “Dixie Highway Sign”. They’re removing most of the references to the Old Dixie Hwy in and around the Atlanta area.
Ahhh, the 1903 Springfield, a sweet shooting iron if there ever was one. According to some of the Devil Dogs of WWI, “…Thank God for Springfields” A semi local wanna be phoney Viet of the Nam Greensealrangerberetforcedoorgunnersnipercombatsniperengineer used one of those, or maybe an M14, could’ve been his personal pig, to get most of his kilz. Disclaimer…bitch was a NG moto grader operator that never got further west than Fort Lost in the Woods.
Speaking of Lees, Continue to Rest In Peace, Marse Robert! Robert E. Lee, Colonel US Army, General CS Army, struck the tent on this date 150 years ago. 19 January 1807 – 12 October 1870. “Duty, then is the sublimest word in our language. Do your duty in all things. You can never do more, you should never wish to do less.”
Here’s what Ike had to say about Bobby Lee!
https://www.civilwarprofiles.com/dwight-d-eisenhower-in-defense-of-robert-e-lee/
An old friend inherited a sporterized 03 from his Dad – he mounted a Leupold 3x9x40 scope removing an old 4X Bushnell.
I shot it several times but it didn’t have the inherent accuracy I expected since my Remington 700 .270 outshot the 03 easily.
The quality of the sporterization is a major influence. Lot of old match rifles started out as ’03s. That being said, a good 700 is hard to beat, but if you start with a good ’03, bed that action in a good stock, and pay attention to all the details, the Springfield will give the Remington a serious run for the money.
That’s exactly what I did with my 700 – glass-bedding provides a fairly significant improvement for accuracy…good mounts and rings are also important. One other thing that helped was installing a Timney trigger…smoothe as glass!!
It’s a damn good shooting .270!
sounds it… but with all that work in the 700 and a who-knows sporterization of the Springfield, that’s like comparing a Philipino 1911 to a Les Baer . Unfair comparison!
I picked up a Savage .308 just to have a good rifle laying around in case some shitbird needs to have his address changed to one that incorporates dirt into project.
Great shooting rifle.
.308 ammo is still around too, not much else as every wannabe first time gun owner buys at least 100K rounds to protect his nasty ass….
What a pain in the ass…
Have you tried looking for 7.62X51 Nato Ball ammo?
For home defense, shooting some perps and target shooting the Nato round should work for you. Hunting Whitetails and other game is a different story.
If the sporterization incldues a near complete rebuild, you can get good results. The quality of the barrel will affect accuracy a lot, particularly if it was fired a lot when mercury fulminate was the priming compound for ammo. Simply using the barrel it came with will yield spotty results.
Before the tragic deepwater boating accident, I had a nice ‘03-A3 in the safe. It’s pretty handy, lightweight, shoots straight, and cycles smooth, albeit not quite as smooth as my M1917 Enfield (gotta love that cock-on-close mechanism! ). My only gripe is the recoil being a bit on the sharp side, but then again, that’s probably because I’m pretty spoiled in that regard from my M1(s).
I would like to get my hands on a Great War ‘03 someday. My US Enfield is early-1918 production and has quite a bit of French trench history beaten into the wood, including one suspiciously-straight gouge in the handguard that looks a bit like it somebody used it to parry a kraut’s bayonet. An original ‘03 would complement it nicely.
When I was in Great Lakes Navy Boot camp, I thought that the rifles that were issued to us were the 03 Springfields because I didn’t know shit from shinola, and then found out that they were US made Enfield rifles which we didn’t shoot but carried them around the grinder and did the manual of arms a lot. When doing push ups, the rifle was gripped in the hands while doing push ups. I had to work off a shit load of demerits that I earned because I couldn’t get a lot of things right so almost every other night while the rest of company 475 were in the barracks lounge coking and smoking, I was in the large graduating hall doing the 96 count manual to music over a speaker with a hundred or so other screw ups. Years later I found out that a penny was inserted into the enfield to what I believe was to take up head space for what, I forgot.
1917 Enfield chambered in .30-06 was issued to a ton of troops in WWI. Believe I read that Alvin York was actually issued an Enfield… Springfield afficianados claim he got rid of it for an ’03, but I recall reading a quote from the man himself stating he used an Enfield on his big day.
The British adopted the Pattern 1914 Enfield rifle just in time for the last Great European Monarchical Pissing Contest, and outsourced it to Remington and Winchester due to the inconvenience of retooling RSAF Enfield’s assembly line during wartime. Meanwhile, the US War Department had selected the M1903 to replace the Krag-Jorgensen over a decade prior, but was actually ordering 03’s at roughly 1/10 the speed of smell. The US entered the war in 1917, and it was “discovered” that M1903s were in critically short supply. Remington and Winchester were just wrapping up their P’14 contracts and took the opportunity to show the feds that they could turn out P’14s in .30-06 a lot faster than they could retool for the ‘03. Thus was born the US Rifle, Caliber .30, M1917.
The US Enfield is a bit heavy compared to a 1903 or other Mauser types, but balances nicely and cycles beautifully, thanks to a cock-on-closing mechanism.
Here’s the photo you sent me to share.
Thankyou Mason. Above pics are from 1963 Company 475 Great lakes yearbook showing the M-1 Garand training of us AHHHH Very young recruits. Was 17 at the time and we also had older lads in the company. As I mentioned in my other above comment, we carried those US Enfields all over the place except for chow, showering, taking a dump Etc. Can’t believe it was so long ago and am looking at 75 next month