Buckshot
07-07-2005, 02:28 AM
............This past Tuesday I took a rifle I'd bought from a guy's friend for $50. It's a bolt action clip fed Savage-Stevens of some indeterminate age, but I'd suspect from the 70's. Nothing real special about it and it reminds me of the generic 22's you'd have seen at Western Auto.
I'd had it out shooting before, and it's the one I'd made a post on the old board about adding a second action screw and bedding it. This seemed to make no difference in it's shooting. I'd tried 8-9 different brands and types of 22 ammo awile back and not a whole lot was real exciting.
I don't guess I'd shot any of the Aguila brand sub-sonic 60gr Super Snipers before. I'd taken 500 rounds of Dyna-Points which had done okay and a box of 50 of the 60gr ammo. The rifle came with one of those little bity 22RF scopes, and this one was made by Crossman. It's nice and clear with real fine crosshairs. I need to get a one incher on it.
I'd shot a few groups with the Dyna-Points at 50 yards and was getting 1" groups for 10 rounds or so, so it's not a bad shooter. Maybe a couple smaller (trigger really sux too, BTW!). After awile I decided to try the 60gr Snipers. I fired a 5 round group at 50 yards that maybe went 3/8" ! :-). It was hard to believe and I searched all over the target paper for what I figured were the other 3 rounds! Then I fired a 10 round group that spanned a scant inch but 7 went into a hole you could cover with a dime.
My Rem 582 boltgun, CZ452 Trainer, and Ruger pistol just hate the heavy bullet ammo, and shoot it sideways into big groups. My Martini is rather indifferent to it compared to how it shoots otherwise. The slugs will go though straight, but the groups run 1.5" or so at 50 yards. I guess I'll have to check the twist in the Savage, as I can't see what else would make it shoot them so well?
..................Buckshot
I'd had it out shooting before, and it's the one I'd made a post on the old board about adding a second action screw and bedding it. This seemed to make no difference in it's shooting. I'd tried 8-9 different brands and types of 22 ammo awile back and not a whole lot was real exciting.
I don't guess I'd shot any of the Aguila brand sub-sonic 60gr Super Snipers before. I'd taken 500 rounds of Dyna-Points which had done okay and a box of 50 of the 60gr ammo. The rifle came with one of those little bity 22RF scopes, and this one was made by Crossman. It's nice and clear with real fine crosshairs. I need to get a one incher on it.
I'd shot a few groups with the Dyna-Points at 50 yards and was getting 1" groups for 10 rounds or so, so it's not a bad shooter. Maybe a couple smaller (trigger really sux too, BTW!). After awile I decided to try the 60gr Snipers. I fired a 5 round group at 50 yards that maybe went 3/8" ! :-). It was hard to believe and I searched all over the target paper for what I figured were the other 3 rounds! Then I fired a 10 round group that spanned a scant inch but 7 went into a hole you could cover with a dime.
My Rem 582 boltgun, CZ452 Trainer, and Ruger pistol just hate the heavy bullet ammo, and shoot it sideways into big groups. My Martini is rather indifferent to it compared to how it shoots otherwise. The slugs will go though straight, but the groups run 1.5" or so at 50 yards. I guess I'll have to check the twist in the Savage, as I can't see what else would make it shoot them so well?
..................Buckshot