Char-Gar
09-01-2006, 12:23 PM
I managed to come up with a loaner rear sight for my new Mossberg 146-B rifle until I can get my own.
The rifle weights in at 7.5 lbs, comes with flip up front sights, schanable forend, man sized stocked of walnut with cheekpiece, adjustable trigger neat click adjustable for windage and evevation rear sight, a 24" barrel and a full length tubular magazine.
Mine also came with a top notch military leather rifle sling and it was $90.00 out the door of Yea Olde Hock Shoppe.
Off the bench at 50 yards with cheapo red box Federal ammo groups with .75" with four always under a half inch.
I did this with loading 5 rounds in the magazine. Tubular magazine on 22 are always problematic. The more rounds you put in, the bigger the groups. Mossberg placed a screw on solid rib on the underside the the barrel and the magazine attatched to this rib, keeping the magazine off the barrel proper. I am certain this helps, but is not a cure all. You still have the shifting weight and changing spring pressure to deal with as the rounds are fired. All of this is the reason why real match rifles are either single shot of clip/magazine fed.
Match shooter also use much higher quality ammo and them segregate the individual rounds by measuring the thickness of the rim which controls headspace.
Although designed as a field rifle, this rifle has inherent match level accuracy in spite of it limitations in barrel weight and magazine type.
This rifle is one heck of allot of rifle for $90.00.
Many folks don't fully appreciate the lowly 22 for learning how to be a rifleman. In the days of yore, I shot competition small bore. My favorite match was the Dewar. It involved shooting at 50 and 100 yards and 50 and 100 meters. Learning the fine points of windage and elevation for this match was just as difficult as shooting the service rilfe at 400 and 600 yards.
I will keep this rifle and enjoy it, until I pass it on to some grandkid, along with a course of instruction in use of the sling, sight picture, breath control, position, windage and elevation.
Maybe, just maybe we can create another rifleman who understand the value of that one well placed shot and not be addicted to rat-a-tat-tat gunfire.
The rifle weights in at 7.5 lbs, comes with flip up front sights, schanable forend, man sized stocked of walnut with cheekpiece, adjustable trigger neat click adjustable for windage and evevation rear sight, a 24" barrel and a full length tubular magazine.
Mine also came with a top notch military leather rifle sling and it was $90.00 out the door of Yea Olde Hock Shoppe.
Off the bench at 50 yards with cheapo red box Federal ammo groups with .75" with four always under a half inch.
I did this with loading 5 rounds in the magazine. Tubular magazine on 22 are always problematic. The more rounds you put in, the bigger the groups. Mossberg placed a screw on solid rib on the underside the the barrel and the magazine attatched to this rib, keeping the magazine off the barrel proper. I am certain this helps, but is not a cure all. You still have the shifting weight and changing spring pressure to deal with as the rounds are fired. All of this is the reason why real match rifles are either single shot of clip/magazine fed.
Match shooter also use much higher quality ammo and them segregate the individual rounds by measuring the thickness of the rim which controls headspace.
Although designed as a field rifle, this rifle has inherent match level accuracy in spite of it limitations in barrel weight and magazine type.
This rifle is one heck of allot of rifle for $90.00.
Many folks don't fully appreciate the lowly 22 for learning how to be a rifleman. In the days of yore, I shot competition small bore. My favorite match was the Dewar. It involved shooting at 50 and 100 yards and 50 and 100 meters. Learning the fine points of windage and elevation for this match was just as difficult as shooting the service rilfe at 400 and 600 yards.
I will keep this rifle and enjoy it, until I pass it on to some grandkid, along with a course of instruction in use of the sling, sight picture, breath control, position, windage and elevation.
Maybe, just maybe we can create another rifleman who understand the value of that one well placed shot and not be addicted to rat-a-tat-tat gunfire.