i recently got a Savage Axis 223. It came with a Bushnell 3-9x40 which looks exactly like the cheap $30 Tasco Walmart scopes I have, so I pulled it off. In its place i put an old Tasco World Class 3-9x40 wide view that was collecting dust on my bench.
I was at work when the rifle came in by way of the chocolate Santa. Before the day was done I stripped it down and lightened th trigger by snipping 1 1/2 coils from the spring. It breaks consistently at just a touch over 3 lbs.
Two weeks ago I broke it in and did a sloppy scope set. Yesterday I went back and used mor of my crappy loads from a few years ago. The 55 fmj's are on top of some amount of IMR3031, don't remember how much. I'll have to chrono them some time. They were made up for general AR plinking with absolutely no concern for accuracy. I just dumped the powder in batches of 200 and glanced them over to make sure they all had a decent amount in the cases. Then I seated the bullets half-donkey' and called it good.
Yesterday I finished setting scope as best I could then just went to town. At that point I had about 75 rounds through it total. Then I discovered it likes a warm barrel with these loads. Ok, let's have some fun with that shoot-n-c target someone left for me at 100 yards. It had all 5 target points untouched. Hehe, this baby's all mine now!
I put 5 in the mag and another in the chamber, total of 6 for each aiming spot. I wanted to see how this rifle-scope-ammo-idiot could do. Keeping my cheek on the stock I worked the bolt and trigger with right hand. Kind of simulating a coyote on the run. Shoot as fast as I can. I'll be damned, nice 1 1/2" or less groups on all 5. Th best was a 3 shot group touching.
Holy crap! For a cheap POS rifle and ammo with a total moron behind the trigger it did pretty darn good! Just imagine how it can do with taylored loads. But first I have to finish sorting brass by head stamp. Only 3000 left to go
I was at work when the rifle came in by way of the chocolate Santa. Before the day was done I stripped it down and lightened th trigger by snipping 1 1/2 coils from the spring. It breaks consistently at just a touch over 3 lbs.
Two weeks ago I broke it in and did a sloppy scope set. Yesterday I went back and used mor of my crappy loads from a few years ago. The 55 fmj's are on top of some amount of IMR3031, don't remember how much. I'll have to chrono them some time. They were made up for general AR plinking with absolutely no concern for accuracy. I just dumped the powder in batches of 200 and glanced them over to make sure they all had a decent amount in the cases. Then I seated the bullets half-donkey' and called it good.
Yesterday I finished setting scope as best I could then just went to town. At that point I had about 75 rounds through it total. Then I discovered it likes a warm barrel with these loads. Ok, let's have some fun with that shoot-n-c target someone left for me at 100 yards. It had all 5 target points untouched. Hehe, this baby's all mine now!
I put 5 in the mag and another in the chamber, total of 6 for each aiming spot. I wanted to see how this rifle-scope-ammo-idiot could do. Keeping my cheek on the stock I worked the bolt and trigger with right hand. Kind of simulating a coyote on the run. Shoot as fast as I can. I'll be damned, nice 1 1/2" or less groups on all 5. Th best was a 3 shot group touching.
Holy crap! For a cheap POS rifle and ammo with a total moron behind the trigger it did pretty darn good! Just imagine how it can do with taylored loads. But first I have to finish sorting brass by head stamp. Only 3000 left to go