...............A couple weeks ago the Burrito Match was again a battle of scoped 22RF's off the bench. There was 5 of us and only me and Larry were shooting sporters. I had my M582 Rem with a $69 blister packed Bushnell 3-9 and Larry was shooting a newly aquired Win M72 with an old Weaver 4X.
Us 2 lowlifes were competeing against 2 Win M52 match rifles and the Remington M37, which is also a match type and is a rifle I've lusted after for several years. The scopes on those 3 rifles were a Leupold, Lyman Super Targ-Spot, and a Unertl.
The winner (one of the M52's) shot a 100-8X with some RWS ammo of some type. The other M52 was 2nd, I came in 3rd with a not too shabby 100-3X, the other sporter was 4th and poor old Glen with his magnificent M37/ Lyman was last with a 95.
The whole reason for the story is that Glen was a bit upset and couldn't figure out his problem. I suspect he felt it might need to be cleaned as he called from his bench:
"Hey, Rick. How do you take the bolt out of this Remington?"
My reply was:
"I don't know, but if I owned it I probably would."
He was lauging when he asked what was I trying to say . I don't know if he ever got it out or not. However this past Tuesday he had the Remington with him. Due to various reasons it was only Glen and I there (we were supposed to shoot centerfire pistols). Since we didn't have a match I just got in some practice and shot the S&W M&P in 38 S&W for fun.
Glen was complaining about the accuracy again from the Remington and said he'd cleaned it really well. I asked him what he was using and he said Federal Lightenings. Now someone may get good accuracy from them but I never had so I suggested they might be his problem. And to put a point to it, they obviously weren't working.
In my rangebox I always have a brick of Win Dynapoints and my MkII Ruger, so I suggested he try some of those. Neither of us had any other RF ammo so what the heck? I handed him the box and continued my messing around. In a bit he turned from his rifle and sai to come look at this 5 shot group. I looked through his spotting scope and in the X ring was a 5 shot group with 4 rounds in a tiny hole maybe a bit smaller then a pea with one just out for maybe 3/8" total.
Not bad for $9.63/brick stuff, eh?
He said, here you sit down and shoot 5 (we were at 50 meters). I was kind of nervous as the Lyman 24X really shows up your heartbeat. The crosshairs have a tiny dot at their intersection that just fit inside the X ring. The trigger is such that yuo can feel it against your finger and when you think, "That looks good" it goes off. So I did my striving best to put 5 into the X ring.
And so I did. I managed to put one betwen his group and the flyer and I just clipped the bottom of his group with 2 more and the other 2 went through the existing hole. Altogether I suspect the group now was a scant half inch. All 10 rounds were well within the 5/8" X ring. Glen took a look and was pretty happy. To have 2 different people fire 10 rounds of bulk 22RF ammo into such a tight group is pretty nifty.
I gave him the rest of that brick of ammo. It increased my desire for the Remington and re-inforced my liking for Winchester Dyna-Points. I have one un-tapped case and maybe another 6-8 bricks comprising 3 lots, so who's to say what they might do? I sure don't see it getting much better! Of course my Rem 582 won't do that, but it does do a very satisfactory job none the less.
..................Buckshot