PlatinumCore16
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So I got back to the range last Saturday to try out my new EDC mags (which worked flawlessly) but also to shoot my Mosin and get some real accuracy stats out of it. To this point I have never shot anything but SP, brass-cased, hunting rounds. About a month ago I was at Wally World and was grabbing some 9mm and asked if they had any 54R. They had some Tula Ammo that was "non-corrosive", but Berdan primed. I just assumed it was corrosive anyways so I didn't want to shoot it unless I knew I'd have a good amount of time after my range trip to really clean out the barrel, action, and bolt.
The Tula Ammo bullets were not lacquered, so I am guessing that they are a "newer" production run. I had a box and a half of my SP ammo, so I shot that at 50 and 100yds, all offhand(which I initially thought meant non-dominant hand, but learned means unsupported, who knew). 50yds produced some alright grouping a bit above PoA. Good enough to kill any animal. 100yds wasn't great, so more practice is needed.
Then came the Tula. Now I apologize as the pictures are on my phone and I need to transfer them to my computer, but I'm 99% sure the few Tula rounds that hit the 100yd target keyholed. Now there were 20 rds, but I shot a fair amount of them at steel targets at about 130yds (I thought I was doing well and would be really cool to hear my hits, shame on me). So out of the 15 or less rounds that I shot at the 100yd target, 1 definitely hit in my 15-20" reactive target, but it wasn't a nice little hole and a few others hit the plastic retaining board also producing a weird hole.
I'm assuming it's the Tula ammo, but I have no idea why they would be tumbling when I've never had that issue before. Is it the rifling? Was it the copper jacketed spitzer rounds? The steel case? When I bought my mosin, it had a sharp, bright bore and from all accounts with the SP hunting ammo I've had, it's a pretty good subject. I am planning on buying some sand bags for when my Rem770 comes in and my thought was to use them to see what the Mosin is really capable of, but this disheartens me. Any thoughts or suggestions to really nail down this issue?
The Tula Ammo bullets were not lacquered, so I am guessing that they are a "newer" production run. I had a box and a half of my SP ammo, so I shot that at 50 and 100yds, all offhand(which I initially thought meant non-dominant hand, but learned means unsupported, who knew). 50yds produced some alright grouping a bit above PoA. Good enough to kill any animal. 100yds wasn't great, so more practice is needed.
Then came the Tula. Now I apologize as the pictures are on my phone and I need to transfer them to my computer, but I'm 99% sure the few Tula rounds that hit the 100yd target keyholed. Now there were 20 rds, but I shot a fair amount of them at steel targets at about 130yds (I thought I was doing well and would be really cool to hear my hits, shame on me). So out of the 15 or less rounds that I shot at the 100yd target, 1 definitely hit in my 15-20" reactive target, but it wasn't a nice little hole and a few others hit the plastic retaining board also producing a weird hole.
I'm assuming it's the Tula ammo, but I have no idea why they would be tumbling when I've never had that issue before. Is it the rifling? Was it the copper jacketed spitzer rounds? The steel case? When I bought my mosin, it had a sharp, bright bore and from all accounts with the SP hunting ammo I've had, it's a pretty good subject. I am planning on buying some sand bags for when my Rem770 comes in and my thought was to use them to see what the Mosin is really capable of, but this disheartens me. Any thoughts or suggestions to really nail down this issue?