Hi Folks!
Haven‘t been active here for a long while but was still casting and shooting lead.
I have a problem with my marlin 336; 30-30. It is a 1972 vintage „zane grey century“ model which my father gifted to me at christmas 2019. I just can‘t get it to shoot. I equipped it with a skinner alaskan peep sight (beatiful work of art it is!), but it would not shoot groups under the size of a pie plate. I tried nearly every factory round i could get my hands on in the 150-170 grain range. After that i tried reloads with the ppu 170 grain flat Point bullets. Not worth a darn.
I ordered a Lyman 311041 mould which took a solid 18 months to arrive. Sized them to .310 and gave them a try: same result as ever.
Only the 160 grain hornady ftx will shoot acceptable groups. But of course i don‘t want to limit all my shooting to the most expensive factory round there is. Anyone any idea what could be the reason for this problem with this gun?
Wish you all a wonderful sunday,
Timo