Bought a legendary Brno #1

[barrabruce]

Took Barbara to the range after it has only rained 30 days and nights.
Sort of sounds biblical.
Third setting with cci std and it grouped well.
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Trouble is I had trouble adjusting it more as I needed a pair of pliers to unlock the nut.
So I took it off.
This was with larger sized bullets.

Still had flyers as some were too hard to chamber.

So I shot some cci std as bought and Eley.
The Eley is a bit smaller groups overall .
I did make some larger sized Eley and had a flyer or two but they shot even better.
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Seems as if I will have to spend some more time with the bumping tool as the just slightly sized ones didn’t really improved groups much at all.
Anyway I may get it to shoot a bit better and maybe decide on where to go after a few more packets down range.

Took my martini cadet down as I haven’t shot for ages and needed to test out some new primers.
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Ten shots in the lower group and trying to sight it in to the sticker above.
May leave the 22lr’s at home.
Much easier if I feel like casting and loading and cheaper too.
Ha

Why are all my photo’s on the side I don’t know why?

[barrabruce]

Well I had a bit of a think about the bedding and converted it back to how I done it originally.
Deep cleaned the barrel again.
Took the tuner off for a proper base point.
After some reconditioning of the bore I fired some modified ammo.
Flat points slightly sized to 0.2245" denoted with a "o"
Eley type points sized to 0.225" denoted by a "o" with a dot inside.
All shot 50yds with cci std
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So I tried some unadulterated cci std.
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To top it off I had 7 cci quiets that is not bad for 50 yards.
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Moved on to try some Eley edge.
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First group and yes, I thought you beauty, but the other groups tell the tale.
So I have decide to leave it alone and enjoy the way it is.
I may have lucked onto a couple of lucky packets of cci std but we will see.
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The rabbits and 303 guy need not fret much as my offhand really needs work.
I may try a weight on the end to make the gun nose heavy if it doesn’t effect it’s grouping.

Now I’m worried if I should clean the bore or not since it is shooting better or just put it away in the safe in the back now and move on to something else.

Ha.
Thanks everyone been fun
Barra

[303Guy]

That's looking very nice. No need to worry about my off hand - I'm way out of practice.

It's annoying how the first group shoots nice and tight then then they open up! I wonder why it does that sometimes? I've got another week to wait to get back out to the range but weather could intervene. I'm keen to see what if any, difference my Toz bedding job will make. It produced one nice little group then not so nice. I'm hoping that's caused by the bedding.

[barrabruce]

I forgot that I cleaned and measured the bolt and found out I can get 0.015" of paper just compressed on the top portion of bolt to breachface.
It was hard to close and the locking lugs were shiny afterwards.
Any way scraping and poking with a dental pick I scraped off a thick layer of gook that I thought was blueing on the firing pin where it mates up to the bolt.
Forgot how much protrusion I gained but it was significant.
Thanks to Forrest r ruger 22/45 thread about firing pin behaviour.
I think it may have contributed to the groups tightening up the extra bit.
At least I have good ignition on the rounds now.
So It seems I have some headspace but I might try single seating compared to magazine fed to see if it does anything.

3030 guy I have found when things go south it stays that way till I clean out the lead sometimes amd things get better again.
I just took the sharp edges off the bulges and catchy bits a couple of times.
Seems about as good as I can expect from the old girl.
The start of the rifling to the bulge is a bit ordinary but after is good to the end.
Maybe I could make a long adito throat that slowly pushes the bullet down in size.
Ha

[barrabruce]

Well someone gave me a stock for a jv15 they played with before his lost his guns in a flood.
I lengthen it a bit an hack away here and there.
Made a tuner weight thingo for it and have played a little with it.
It looks like this now.

An shoots like this.

Think I’m finished with it.
Now just have to shoot more off hand and get better at it.
More of a lump to cart around but I wanted to have a go at benchrest sortta anyway.And try a thumb hole stock.
I can always change it back if I get sick of it.
Thanks for the support.
I don’t think I’ll bother with a new barrel or anything really.
Cheers
Bruce