Steve Pollick: Vintage rifles popular at Camp Perry matches

Steve Pollick is an excellent journalist. I'm not saying that because he came out and shot at the M1A match, because I would still read his writing even if he hated Camp Perry. He just really seems to find the true story.

I loved this part of his story...

A lasting memory of Sunday's match was that of peering through an M1A's metallic rear sight. I saw the black post of the rifle's front sight and that sun-sharpened, black bull's-eye, 300 yards away at firing point 85. The aim has to be steady while squeezing the trigger.

The bullet does not always land in the X-inner ring of the 10-ring. But it always lands where the rifle has been pointed. So I smiled to myself when, walking back to the Jeep after the match, I overheard one of two other shooters reflecting on his performance.

"If it was easy, everybody would be a high master," he said.