Picked this up as kind of a birthday present for myself (75). I had medical problems and heart surgery this spring, then rehab, so I felt I deserved it. It just intrigued me. I don't think it had ever been shot - the guy I bought it from said he had never shot it, and when I came to see what it would do I found the following: a) 3-9x Bushnell scope badly out of focus. b) L45 clicks, D60 clicks needed to get on at 25 yards. c) Safety didn't work. c) Action very rough - put some gun grease on the locking lugs. After ten rounds, action smoothed out, safety started working.
I started with a jacketed load - using some of the 105 gr. Round-nose Speer bullets I bought 600 of 40 years ago when some gun shop was selling out of non-moving stock - 44 gr. of 4831, WLRM primer. 5 into 1.7 inches at 100 yards. Then a load of 14.0 gr. 4227 with the 85 gr. Lyman 244496. Not good. Next, the same load of 14.0 gr. 4227, Rem 9 1/2 primer, with the 100 gr. SAECO RG6 - aha! 10 into 2.5 inches at 50 yards.
Today, the sun was warm, not hurried, although the light on the targets was not so good I punched out a 5 shot group of 1.4 inches at 100 yards with the RG6 bullet but only a 3.6 inch group at 100 with the jacketed load. I had some trouble seeing that target.