Oldfeller
05-01-2020, 01:06 AM
I just went through my rifles, checking for rust, lubing and cleaning the bores. I do that at least every 2 years, generally setting aside the ones that will never be shot again for a trip to the pawn shops (easiest fully legal gun disposal system ever invented).
What remains are distilled, best for a purpose guns. Since I shoot cast mostly, they are the best of the best cast boolit shooters.
My eyes suck, and I've got occasional muscle tremors that come on with fatigue so if I mention a group size that is larger than normal understand that I used to shoot better than this.
But it is what it is ......
Best standard rifles for cast boolit shooting are:
8mm Mauser (aftermarket trigger)
M95 Steyr (trigger reworked with springs and honing)
Savage 110 in 30-06 and 7mm-08 (aftermarket triggers on both)
In this selection I still have a few scoped guns, but I find that diabetes is making my "scoped vision" more and more unclear and erratic. My Steyr and my Mauser now have a simple single dot (old style large round things left over from all the years past) mounted well out on the barrel. Putting the dot way on out there gives me better barrel triangulation (longer sight radius) and it reduces the size of the red dot compared to the targets.
Scopes for my older diabetic usages run more towards side wheel focus adjustment (54x very high magnification very high clarity rifle scopes) and multiple focus 24x adjustable air rifle scopes.
Range trips of late say I can shoot the red dots about as good as I can a scoped rifle, which simple says the eyes and the muscle tremors really aren't there for much better any more.
Pistol sights are total blurs, both of them. I can't see the bullet holes hit, so I empty the gun and am somewhat thrilled to find an 8" spread on center when I go out to the 25 yard target.
What remains are distilled, best for a purpose guns. Since I shoot cast mostly, they are the best of the best cast boolit shooters.
My eyes suck, and I've got occasional muscle tremors that come on with fatigue so if I mention a group size that is larger than normal understand that I used to shoot better than this.
But it is what it is ......
Best standard rifles for cast boolit shooting are:
8mm Mauser (aftermarket trigger)
M95 Steyr (trigger reworked with springs and honing)
Savage 110 in 30-06 and 7mm-08 (aftermarket triggers on both)
In this selection I still have a few scoped guns, but I find that diabetes is making my "scoped vision" more and more unclear and erratic. My Steyr and my Mauser now have a simple single dot (old style large round things left over from all the years past) mounted well out on the barrel. Putting the dot way on out there gives me better barrel triangulation (longer sight radius) and it reduces the size of the red dot compared to the targets.
Scopes for my older diabetic usages run more towards side wheel focus adjustment (54x very high magnification very high clarity rifle scopes) and multiple focus 24x adjustable air rifle scopes.
Range trips of late say I can shoot the red dots about as good as I can a scoped rifle, which simple says the eyes and the muscle tremors really aren't there for much better any more.
Pistol sights are total blurs, both of them. I can't see the bullet holes hit, so I empty the gun and am somewhat thrilled to find an 8" spread on center when I go out to the 25 yard target.