nemesiss45
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A few months back my dad asked me if I would make a home for 2 mausers that no longer fit in his collection. One was a beat up chilean in 7.62. The other was a beautiful swede mostly matching with a nice clean bore.
He told me he had some ammo, but he'd have to dig it out, so the guns sat in my safe since then.
A few weeks ago, we dug the ammo out, and it turned out most of it was 3rd hand reloads and some rusty norma factory ammo, none of which I would ever put in a gun and pull the trigger. I ordered a die set, pulled it all down, cleaned the brass and bullets, then reloaded it all with fresh powder.
Now, I dont have time to get out to the range too often, so when a 2 hour window presented itself today, the blustery wind did not deter me. I headed to the range 10 miles out of town and found the wind was even worse there. I'd estimate it was blowing 30mph+ straight across the range.
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I had planned to hang a couple paper targets, but the target board at the 100 had snapped in half from the wind. There was a pallet near there, so I leaned it up against a steel deer and stapled a target on with 6 staples. When I turned my back I heard a rip and it took flight. I tried 2 more with 8 then 10 staples. The 3rd one finally stayed put, but when I got back to the line and took 1 shot, the pallet blew over. It was about that time I decided to shoot the steel plates instead.
I took 2 shots at a deer head at 100 and both rang back. I took a stab at 200 and it rung first shot. I then decided to push my luck at 300. 1st shot was less than 6" off the leeward side of the plate, then my next 2 shots rang back. I shot 2 more magazines and hit maybe 8 out of 10 shots.
I would have been happy with that outcome on a dead calm day. To do it on a day like today makes me very excited about this rifle. I cannot wait for a calm day when I can punch some paper and get some more concrete feeback on its grouping.
He told me he had some ammo, but he'd have to dig it out, so the guns sat in my safe since then.
A few weeks ago, we dug the ammo out, and it turned out most of it was 3rd hand reloads and some rusty norma factory ammo, none of which I would ever put in a gun and pull the trigger. I ordered a die set, pulled it all down, cleaned the brass and bullets, then reloaded it all with fresh powder.
Now, I dont have time to get out to the range too often, so when a 2 hour window presented itself today, the blustery wind did not deter me. I headed to the range 10 miles out of town and found the wind was even worse there. I'd estimate it was blowing 30mph+ straight across the range.
http://s740.photobucket.com/user/S...Uploads/20140401_171849_zps4jj8ouzf.mp4.html
I had planned to hang a couple paper targets, but the target board at the 100 had snapped in half from the wind. There was a pallet near there, so I leaned it up against a steel deer and stapled a target on with 6 staples. When I turned my back I heard a rip and it took flight. I tried 2 more with 8 then 10 staples. The 3rd one finally stayed put, but when I got back to the line and took 1 shot, the pallet blew over. It was about that time I decided to shoot the steel plates instead.
I took 2 shots at a deer head at 100 and both rang back. I took a stab at 200 and it rung first shot. I then decided to push my luck at 300. 1st shot was less than 6" off the leeward side of the plate, then my next 2 shots rang back. I shot 2 more magazines and hit maybe 8 out of 10 shots.
I would have been happy with that outcome on a dead calm day. To do it on a day like today makes me very excited about this rifle. I cannot wait for a calm day when I can punch some paper and get some more concrete feeback on its grouping.
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