Old Rifle, Old Shooter, New Fun

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doc540

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Finally gave in to the dreaded "Rimfire Benchrest" disease.

The Mossberg 144 shared a birthday with me in 1949.

Learned a lot today.

1. Don't shoot late in the day due to wind.

2. Wind can REALLY affect accuracy with subsonic bullets.

3. The Mossy likes Wolf Match Target.

4. Making tight little groups is fun and quite the challenge.

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The Old T-Bolt
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Old_Painless (from AR15.com) behind the glass
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That's a beautiful looking rifle...it doesn't look like it has a scratch on it. I love doping the wind, while shooting my rimfires at our range. Wind flags do help. I like to shoot metal spinner plates, golf balls/tennis balls {hung from a string} and pinecones placed on the backstop; while shooting my 22's.

My Kimber Classic rimfire rifle came with a five shot target card at 50 yards:
.238"
 
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Sweet Rifle. I love the grain in the butt stock. Not really familiar with Mossberg - is that trigger guard factory? I'd love to have one like it on my Savage. And I agree - making tiny holes with rimfires is a blast.
 
Yes, thanks, the Mossberg's trigger guard is original and considered by many to be ugly.

It's a inexpensive shooter, that's for sure.:)
 
Fun times! Gotta love the rimfires. Doc, do you own theboxotruth.com? The way you wrote out what you found reminded me of it. I love that website!
 
I don't think the guard is ugly - it looks rather practical to me. Be nice to get some .22 again. I miss the fun but the ammo is nonexistent here at the moment. Still, glad one of us can enjoy and thanks for sharing
 
That is great! Not an expensive rifle, but it shoots really well and it has a walnut stock, and with some figure in it, yet. That's why we call them the Good Old Days. Thanks for sharing this.
 
Thanks for sharing a great day at the range. When I got into shooting I was plagued by the ".22's are boring" mindset. Then I broke down and got my model 18 S&W, followed by an old marlin 81D, and marlin xt-22. I can't imagine a trip to the range without my 22's.
 
Some folks have little respect for how difficult it is to shoot a .22 rf for real accuracy.
To begin with, the ammo, even the best ammo (and I mean Eley Tenex, Lapua Midas etc) at over $15.00 per box of 50 has significant variations. RF ammo of all kinds is sensitive to firing pin shape, impact strength, & position.
The bullets are so slow (1050 fps avg) that shooter form and technique are critical, follow through is critical, trigger control is critical. reading the wind is important. Everything one does with an rf firearm has an affect upon the group and consistency of group.
Shooter's position physically must be consistently the same, finger on the trigger position must be the same. Everything counts when you are seeking the very finest accuracy.

Roger
 
Cool good to see another Mossy shooter here, maybe we can educate these people that think you have to have an expensive .22 rifle.

Mine is a military issue M44US. The serial number puts it in the first group delivered to the army in 1943.

The finish is no where near as pretty as yours.
And mine has a rear peep and post front, no scope.
But can it shoot.

Everyone should look into these sleepers..

10 shots at 25 yards with iron sights.
CCI green tag.

The number 5 on the right was group number 5 since the last barrel cleaning.

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Good shooting!

And mine's only pretty cause someone refinished it back in the day.

It has the peep sights, and some day I'll remove the glass to try them.:)
 
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