Managed to burn the lawnmowers deck drive belt up this afternoon so I decided to make some noise out back. Went in the house and picked up my 21 inch barrelled sporter 308 (my normal fun gun) that started as a 1916 civil guardia mauser. This gun came to me in full military dress but with a great bore, saw it on a guys shoulder at a gunshow 4 years or so ago and had to have it, price was right too. I fit into a Boyds RIA sporter stock and cut the barre to 21inchesl with a hacksaw/trued everything up with files and a machinist square and simply chamfered the crown with a burr and then lapped the crown with a homemade brass lap and 300 grit clover. It is about one step above a bubba special and that is only because of the nice wood I got from Boyd's. It wears a Williams reciever peep with a force fit threading of an adjustable iris and some recycled front sights that are either Lyman or Remington???
Well here is the deal...normally this gun will shoot a touch over MOA to 1.5 with this load in dull light conditions at 100 and keep all shots (well 99%) fired on a 3 inch 200 yard swinger, my preferred/normal shooting time. I load this gun with stripper clips and I shoot it till I get bored as fast as I can just as I did today. I am not a fan of bright sun by any stretch in general. Today the sun was burning bright directly overhead as bad as it gets and I could watch the front sight dance. I was also shooting paper simply due to the fact that I hardly never shoot paper once a load is "worked" as it bores me, but I felt like it today. I have MOA sized steel swingers to fix that boredom issue (simple minds like simple things)
Normally while working a load I shoot 1/4, 1/2 to 1.5 inch diameter dots (depending on sight or scope setup) ...well I had no normal targets made up so I used boughten targets that were a gift...something I never do...they is too big and it fouls up my brain especially when not using a scope. Aim small miss small you know.
Today I shot at 5 3/5 inch Shoot-N-SEE bull at 100 and a 8 inch bull type normal target at 200. My 100 yard group was gawdawful at about 2 1/4 X 3 inches and my 200 yard group was 1 1/4 X 3 1/4.
So was it the sun,anger over the lawnmower takin a nap and no place to get parts today, lack of concentration big target he sun or just the fact that I do not find it fun to shoot paper, especially with this gun? I switched over to the steel 3 inch swinger at 200 and never missed it in 8 or 9 strippers worth of ammo....what gives? What do paper targets prove again?
Everyone always wants all sorts of data so here Ya be.
32.6grains Rel10X
CCI 200 sparkplug
Mixed RA/WCC mil brass (1X fired)
Lee group buy 311291 made of 50% COWW/ 50% Lead Pipe cast/waterdropped/loaded 4+ years ago and put into 30 caliber ammo cans.....bulk loaded on a dillon 550 with no case prep other than crimp removal.
Average velocity over a friends chrony was 2454 fps. 10 shot groups....some sister holes in the mix.
and I got targets...really really bad ones just to prove it happenened....had my sister load em just to prove how bad a bad day can be....some people detest paper targets once the load workup is done......whatcha all think of that???