I needed a rifle to use up some thirty caliber leftovers I have around the dungeon . I was gonna use the three-oh-eight and see if I could get gallery loads to hit where the irons were set to without adjusting them . It didn't want to work so I reached for the 788 chambered in 30WCF . Why not I asked myself , after all I hadn't shot it in some time .
This one has a Williams reciever sight on it and is zeroed using hundred fifty grain spitzers . The first batch of leftovers to use up are some 311466 that got lubed and gaschecked and were sized to .311" . I loaded five rounds with seven point two grains of Universal Clays since I had some of that to use up too .
At thirty yards , all five shots impacted about an inch above the point of aim and in a nice tight group too . Back to the loading bench and made up forty more rounds and sat on the hill about seventy yards from the swinging woodchuck target hanging on the berm . The hits on steel were more often than the misses so perhaps I really should put it on paper and see how it's doing . Those forty rounds gone .... back to the dungeon to load more .
Only had thirty bullets left of that batch so I found another box that had been gas checked and lubed with LBT and sized .313" . I set up the LEE push through and ran all of them through to make them .311" so at least the size would be right . I've got thirty of one and ten of the other ready to go and sho 'nuff ...... it's supposed to rain tomorrow .
This should be a fun way to use up leftovers huh?
Jack
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