Buckshot
01-05-2008, 04:56 AM
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.............An old shooting buddy and I ended up with a BUNCH of stripped small ring Mauser (1894 Brazilians by Loewe and FN) actions, and then completed them with parts from Springfield Sporters. These actions are unique from ALL other mall ring actions in that they have no thumb cut. They are also milled for the 'Chinned' boltface, as was the first '93 Spanish Mausers.
The first one I used I made into a 7.62x39 sporter. This one in 35 Remington was the 2nd. It's in a cheap plastic stock and wears the least expensive Williams aputure rear sight and has a round bead front sight. No alterations were made to the action. The barrel has a 16" twist. It feeds and extracts just fine. In the photo shown the loaded round has a Saeco #356, which is a 200gr FNGC slug.
I thought I'd share some of the stuff I've down with it over the years, so here's some targets and the loads used. All of these loads were per my usual. That is visually inspected boolits and powder charges were thrown. All were put up in standard off the shelf Lee dies. All these groups shown were fired at 50 yards.
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Some light loads. Data visible on the targets. Pretty amazing the similarity between the Lee DEWC and the Lyman GC'd SWC.
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These were shot using surp WC846 at 39.0 and 41.0 grains, and was a quick and dirty crimp test. The boolit for all is the Saeco #356, 200gr FNGC. On the left, the upper (39.0gr)and lower (41.0gr) targets had been crimped. Those on the right had NOT been crimped.
Crimped:
39.0 = 2057 fps
41.0 = 2168 fps
No crimp:
39.0 = 2042 fps
41.0 = 2148 fps
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Here's 4 different powders all using the same load of 36.0 grs. Upper left and going clockwise is:
AA2200 = 2227 fps
BLC2 = 1965 fps
WC844 = 2076
WC846 = 2086
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And lastly these are all loaded with WC846 and cheap Remington 200gr Core-Lokt jacketed bullets. I think you can read the charges and the velocities listed on the target. I have pretty much settled on surplus WC846 as THE best powder for me in this rifle for higher velocities, cast or jacketed.
................Buckshot
http://www.fototime.com/AEC40C4BAA66E93/standard.jpghttp://www.fototime.com/DA9985F72A3A411/standard.jpg
.............An old shooting buddy and I ended up with a BUNCH of stripped small ring Mauser (1894 Brazilians by Loewe and FN) actions, and then completed them with parts from Springfield Sporters. These actions are unique from ALL other mall ring actions in that they have no thumb cut. They are also milled for the 'Chinned' boltface, as was the first '93 Spanish Mausers.
The first one I used I made into a 7.62x39 sporter. This one in 35 Remington was the 2nd. It's in a cheap plastic stock and wears the least expensive Williams aputure rear sight and has a round bead front sight. No alterations were made to the action. The barrel has a 16" twist. It feeds and extracts just fine. In the photo shown the loaded round has a Saeco #356, which is a 200gr FNGC slug.
I thought I'd share some of the stuff I've down with it over the years, so here's some targets and the loads used. All of these loads were per my usual. That is visually inspected boolits and powder charges were thrown. All were put up in standard off the shelf Lee dies. All these groups shown were fired at 50 yards.
http://www.fototime.com/347AB486CF7FA9E/standard.jpg
Some light loads. Data visible on the targets. Pretty amazing the similarity between the Lee DEWC and the Lyman GC'd SWC.
http://www.fototime.com/124BB4E79158677/standard.jpg
These were shot using surp WC846 at 39.0 and 41.0 grains, and was a quick and dirty crimp test. The boolit for all is the Saeco #356, 200gr FNGC. On the left, the upper (39.0gr)and lower (41.0gr) targets had been crimped. Those on the right had NOT been crimped.
Crimped:
39.0 = 2057 fps
41.0 = 2168 fps
No crimp:
39.0 = 2042 fps
41.0 = 2148 fps
http://www.fototime.com/C1F670199992A76/standard.jpg
Here's 4 different powders all using the same load of 36.0 grs. Upper left and going clockwise is:
AA2200 = 2227 fps
BLC2 = 1965 fps
WC844 = 2076
WC846 = 2086
http://www.fototime.com/7F666615A4BE568/standard.jpg
And lastly these are all loaded with WC846 and cheap Remington 200gr Core-Lokt jacketed bullets. I think you can read the charges and the velocities listed on the target. I have pretty much settled on surplus WC846 as THE best powder for me in this rifle for higher velocities, cast or jacketed.
................Buckshot