Buckshot
11-04-2011, 03:33 AM
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................The rifle other then the bore was in quite decent condition. The barrel on the other hand was BAAAAAAAAAAAAAD! Major corrosion pits interrupted in a several places by hints and pieces of lands peeking thought. WELL beyond reclamation. A darn good thing my brother GAVE it to me, eh?!
Perusing the Brownell's catalog I found they they offer direct replacement barrels (stepped contour) for Mausers, chambered 8x57 or 308. I had pleanty of 8mm's, but not too long before I'd bought a Savage M10 FP chambered 308. I figured a brother in the same flavor would be a neat idea. Got the barrel and had it put on and headspaced. I removed and transfered over the front and rear sights and was ready to rock! My first outting with it was with the cast Saeco #301 (RG-4 copy) and it was a bit disappointing. I might oughta' fire a couple hundred cheap jacketed rounds through it first, but so far haven't yet. I fired the same Lee C309-180-R as used in the previous post on the K31.
This outing was 50 rounds, 10 rounds of 5 different loads.
R-P headstamped once fired (in this rifle) brass, neck sized in a Lee collet die. WLR primers.
Lee C-309-180-R boolit, 15 BHN 175gr bare. Boolits not weighed, visual looksee only. Lube-sized in Lyman .309".
Carnauba Red lube.
Hornady 30cal GC seated and crimped in Lyman lube press.
All powder charges were thrown using a Lyman DPS3 scale.
OAL: 2.790"
Boolit crimped into crimp groove.
Loads shown with * had a dacron filler
Magazine filled with 5 rounds, striped and fired x 2. Fired at 50 yards issue sights and issue 58 year old Mk1 Mod1 eyeballs
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As with the K-31 the load using Unique was about the worst. Again, an alibi I suppose but those Mauser sights are kind of tough to use, but I wasn't really upset buy it's performance. The same point of aim (6 o'clock) was used for all the groups. IIRC the rear sight was set at the 300 yard mark. You can see how the increasing loads moved slightly up and to the left?
Overall the load of surplus SR4759 was the best with 9 rounds in 1.15" and of course to keep us humble, a flyer was included! The group using surplus 4895 was rather pleasing and would have been a scant 1.5" except that one high shot. The 4895 load was also partially off the target, so the one you're seeing was the target UNDERNEATH the one I was aiming at, and captured all 10 rounds.
I suppose I should cave in and get one of those Merit suction cup eyeglass iris apurture things. Dang it's heck getting old [smilie=l:
....................Buckshot
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................The rifle other then the bore was in quite decent condition. The barrel on the other hand was BAAAAAAAAAAAAAD! Major corrosion pits interrupted in a several places by hints and pieces of lands peeking thought. WELL beyond reclamation. A darn good thing my brother GAVE it to me, eh?!
Perusing the Brownell's catalog I found they they offer direct replacement barrels (stepped contour) for Mausers, chambered 8x57 or 308. I had pleanty of 8mm's, but not too long before I'd bought a Savage M10 FP chambered 308. I figured a brother in the same flavor would be a neat idea. Got the barrel and had it put on and headspaced. I removed and transfered over the front and rear sights and was ready to rock! My first outting with it was with the cast Saeco #301 (RG-4 copy) and it was a bit disappointing. I might oughta' fire a couple hundred cheap jacketed rounds through it first, but so far haven't yet. I fired the same Lee C309-180-R as used in the previous post on the K31.
This outing was 50 rounds, 10 rounds of 5 different loads.
R-P headstamped once fired (in this rifle) brass, neck sized in a Lee collet die. WLR primers.
Lee C-309-180-R boolit, 15 BHN 175gr bare. Boolits not weighed, visual looksee only. Lube-sized in Lyman .309".
Carnauba Red lube.
Hornady 30cal GC seated and crimped in Lyman lube press.
All powder charges were thrown using a Lyman DPS3 scale.
OAL: 2.790"
Boolit crimped into crimp groove.
Loads shown with * had a dacron filler
Magazine filled with 5 rounds, striped and fired x 2. Fired at 50 yards issue sights and issue 58 year old Mk1 Mod1 eyeballs
http://www.fototime.com/CBD1FA487E76647/standard.jpg
As with the K-31 the load using Unique was about the worst. Again, an alibi I suppose but those Mauser sights are kind of tough to use, but I wasn't really upset buy it's performance. The same point of aim (6 o'clock) was used for all the groups. IIRC the rear sight was set at the 300 yard mark. You can see how the increasing loads moved slightly up and to the left?
Overall the load of surplus SR4759 was the best with 9 rounds in 1.15" and of course to keep us humble, a flyer was included! The group using surplus 4895 was rather pleasing and would have been a scant 1.5" except that one high shot. The 4895 load was also partially off the target, so the one you're seeing was the target UNDERNEATH the one I was aiming at, and captured all 10 rounds.
I suppose I should cave in and get one of those Merit suction cup eyeglass iris apurture things. Dang it's heck getting old [smilie=l:
....................Buckshot