Thread: Lucky Group?
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Old August 27, 2013, 07:29 AM   #1
Picher
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Lucky Group?

I went to the range yesterday to shoot several rifles and it was a mostly cloudy day with little wind from 7:00.

My buddy Chuck and I were shooting at 100 yards, checking zero and trying loads. I shot mostly loads for the .243 Win, wood-stocked, pillar-bedded, Pac-Nor stainless, (sporter contour 24", 1-9" twist) Super Match barreled, Rem 700 ADL. I also had my trusty .223 Rem, Tikka 595, and newly re-crowned Marlin 39A.

I was ecstatic with the .243, Rem 700 group. The best I've ever had from a sporter at 100 yards, measuring 0.15" for three shots. Load was 43 grains of IMR 4350, CCI LR, Win Cases, 85 grain Sierra HPBT.

The .223 Rem Tikka managed 3 out of 4 in 0.20". First shot out of a clean barrel went out about 3/8".

Shooting the Marlin 39A at 50 yards was frustrating at first. Using RWS 50, it shot an almost circular group of 1.9", then another with CCI Mini-Mags was equally bad. I suspected the scope was the problem because the crosshairs would jump when it dry-fired after the last shot.

Since the shots were 2" low on the Marlin, so I adjusted the scope to zero and promptly got a 5/8", 10-shot group with Mini-Mags that had all the rounds touching the 1" Stick-On bull!! All but two shots went into .30"! That scope's gotta go, but the Marlin is a keeper!!!

Some range days are better than others. This was one of the best!!!
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