Idahoan
04-21-2006, 09:12 PM
Finally forced myself to take a break from working on the property;-) and went to the range. Nothing to write home about, yet, and I had to shoot at 50 yards instead of my usual 100, simply cannot see the 6" pale orange bullseye very well compared to the 8" black bulls-eye I am used to but forgot at home. Rifle was a K98k rebarreled in Yugoslavia which is very accurate with the 198 gr Portuguese FMJ. I first shot the group circled at lower left, Lyman 165 gr 323470 using 14.6 grs Unique, only fair, but I think it will be better as I get back to shooting more regularly, I am definitely "rusty", what with moving and working over the new homestead the last year or so.
After finally figuring out that the 242 gr 323378 bullet was shooting way low, I worked up to 40 grs of IMR 4350 and shot the first 2 shots (in square) with my rear sight set at 300 yards, then moved the rear sight to the 400 meter setting and shot the last 3 rounds with that setting (in rectangle). Nothing fantastic, but they are stable and reasonably accurate. Next step is to seat the bullets a bit deeper and try crimping them I suppose, mine were seated to the middle of the front band. And also try to decide what primers I should be using, Lyman says to use std primers for cast boolits, but magnum primers are recommended for 4350, I used std primers, which seemed to leave a fair amount of powder in the bore.
I tried to enclose a pic of the rifle also, but it is 153 kb, which is over the site's 100 kb limit:neutral:
After finally figuring out that the 242 gr 323378 bullet was shooting way low, I worked up to 40 grs of IMR 4350 and shot the first 2 shots (in square) with my rear sight set at 300 yards, then moved the rear sight to the 400 meter setting and shot the last 3 rounds with that setting (in rectangle). Nothing fantastic, but they are stable and reasonably accurate. Next step is to seat the bullets a bit deeper and try crimping them I suppose, mine were seated to the middle of the front band. And also try to decide what primers I should be using, Lyman says to use std primers for cast boolits, but magnum primers are recommended for 4350, I used std primers, which seemed to leave a fair amount of powder in the bore.
I tried to enclose a pic of the rifle also, but it is 153 kb, which is over the site's 100 kb limit:neutral: