44man
11-13-2016, 09:47 AM
Pete had one built up and I mounted his scope. We went down to shoot and first thing I noticed is it is louder then I expected. He had some sad groups but we got it on at 50 yards. Moved to 100 and he had the same. We figured to add clicks but the darn gun has little drop so we were back to the first setting.
He complained about the trigger so I took 2 shots and found it perfect, clean break at what feels like 2#. My 2 shots made one hole that you could just see it was 2 shots.
I set a can and part of a spray can top on the rail, his son took both.
As they went down I looked at loads and found his problem. Run out must have been .030" on a few.
For now he is using jacketed. I asked if he cut the edges of the necks after he said some were hard to get in.
Then we started to get failures to eject with brass stuck neck up in the receiver. I looked inside and said the thing is dry, why didn't Karl lube the bolt? I told him to clean and lube. I need to see if base screws are sticking through too. Base was already installed.
Anyway, I see why you guys like the caliber, it is fun.
Now to make him real boolits!
He complained about the trigger so I took 2 shots and found it perfect, clean break at what feels like 2#. My 2 shots made one hole that you could just see it was 2 shots.
I set a can and part of a spray can top on the rail, his son took both.
As they went down I looked at loads and found his problem. Run out must have been .030" on a few.
For now he is using jacketed. I asked if he cut the edges of the necks after he said some were hard to get in.
Then we started to get failures to eject with brass stuck neck up in the receiver. I looked inside and said the thing is dry, why didn't Karl lube the bolt? I told him to clean and lube. I need to see if base screws are sticking through too. Base was already installed.
Anyway, I see why you guys like the caliber, it is fun.
Now to make him real boolits!