And so let's start a short story about how I became interested in hunting, a small preface about me.

My name is Sergey, I am 34 years old, grew up and live in Moscow. As a child, I spent time in the summer at my dacha, namely in a village in the Yaroslavl region , Pereslavsky district , a God - forsaken place , but the roots of my ancestors go from there . I spent a lot of time there with Uncle Victor's neighbor, and I often saw him tanned skins of various animals and a lot of elk horns. And now, at a more conscious age, I plucked up the courage and asked him what kind of tanned skins and where they came from , he told me and showed me the tool of their extraction , namely a very old single - barreled gun , if I remember correctly , it was a gun of the Tula arms factory , in the common people of Tulka , the gun looked like a pipe extremely corroded , but my interest appeared quickly and I began to ask him to show how it shoots , this year I failed to beg him to shoot but the next year he showed me how it shoots and even taught me how to shoot , for me , these were extremely positive emotions and this was the beginning of my interest in weapons.

After the end of the summer , and practical shooting , I began to study a lot of literature on weapons and their use for hunting purposes , so interest began to acquire more new facts for me and what weapons other hunters use , an interest in hunting was born .But since I was still too young at that moment , I could not hunt myself and own weapons yet , but from the books I emphasized other hunting methods that I used until adulthood and perfectly extracted small fur - bearing game and beavers .

Coming of age and buying the first weapon

And so I turned 18, and I decided to become a full - fledged hunter and buy my first weapon. To do this, first I joined the Iarc hunting society and after that I issued documents for the purchase of weapons, namely, in Russia you need to own a smoothbore weapon for 5 years and only after five years you can buy a rifled weapon, I did so. In Moscow, I met many more hunters and experts on weapons, who told me what kind of weapon it was worth buying and that it would be universal, I chose the Lanber Victoria smoothbore weapon, this smoothbore rifle in 12 caliber and semi - automatic, very light and high - quality, it suited me for hunting both feathered game and hunting large animals.

This gun has been serving me faithfully for 12 years now, I hunt duck with it, use it on the stand, for shooting skeet.

After 7 years, and having gained experience and skills, I decided to buy myself a rifled weapon and I made a choice in favor of a Saiga rifled weapon in 308 caliber, since this is a fairly versatile and powerful cartridge and it covers all hunting tasks for the extraction of any animal from beaver to bear, so I became the owner of the Saiga 308 carbine.

After buying this carbine, it was immediately upgraded in the form of a butt and an optical sight, to begin with, a simple sight produced by Pilad 4x32 was bought, but it did not really suit me for corral hunting and I purchased a sight from Vector Optics , the company makes extremely good and high - quality optics for carbines , which shows good results in shooting , both at a static target and in motion , after reading and talking with a consultant from the company , the choice fell on a corral sight with the first focal mesh.

We will install the sight, I went to shoot him right away, to the shooting range and the results fully satisfied me, the sight showed itself well, and its targeting and bringing the weapon to a normal battle did not take much time and effort, the sight is very convenient and the quality of the images in the eyepiece for the eye are very bright and comfortable.

These are the results of shooting with different cartridges and from different positions of the weapon both from the hands and the stop, for hunting, this suits me quite well.

Every time before going hunting, I recommend checking the targeting of weapons with optics, as well as making corrections on different climatic conditions, since the cartridge behaves differently at different temperatures.