# Shooters- what guns do you have a natural affinity with?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shooters-what-guns-do-you-have-a-natural-affinity-with/441639>\
**Category:** The Game Room\
**Created:** [March 17, 2008, 11:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shooters-what-guns-do-you-have-a-natural-affinity-with/441639 "2008-03-17T11:05:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![Martini\_Enfield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/martini_enfield/32/11123_2.png) [@Martini\_Enfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Martini_Enfield)\
**Post date:** [March 17, 2008, 11:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shooters-what-guns-do-you-have-a-natural-affinity-with/441639/1 "2008-03-17T11:05:50Z")

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I get a lot of my shooting mates asking why I like .303 rifles so much, given that they’re “Really old and don’t have scopes or anything”.

One of my friends tried shooting my SMLE and said it just didn’t feel right

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**Author:** ![Martini\_Enfield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/martini_enfield/32/11123_2.png) [@Martini\_Enfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Martini_Enfield)\
**Post date:** [March 17, 2008, 11:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shooters-what-guns-do-you-have-a-natural-affinity-with/441639/2 "2008-03-17T11:58:21Z")

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I don’t know what happened here, but the boards just went down for a bit and half my post vanished. Can one of the mods delete this thread for me, as I’ve reposted the OP in its complete form in a separate thread?

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**Author:** ![fluiddruid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c2a13f/32.png) [@fluiddruid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fluiddruid)\
**Post date:** [March 18, 2008, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shooters-what-guns-do-you-have-a-natural-affinity-with/441639/3 "2008-03-18T00:21:02Z")

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[QUOTE=Martini Enfield]  
I get a lot of my shooting mates asking why I like .303 rifles so much, given that they’re “Really old and don’t have scopes or anything”.

One of my friends tried shooting my SMLE and said it just didn’t feel right  
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Closing duplicate thread.