Resurrection

Not terrible, I`ve been shooting 150grn reloads, so trying these 180grn SP store bought Remingtons was a treat. Little heavier push, but that was it. The inertial recoil butt plate works beautifully, I could shoot it all day.

I didnt adjust the scope for these but shot POA. The first shot  at 1:00 was aiming dead center. The next 5 where shot at 6:00 center. the resulting group is 2.25"x1" maximun spread, well within the 10 ring of an SR target.

The shots in order as spied through my spotting glasses are 3:00 then top to bottom, holding the same POA as closely as possible, so stringing a bit, probably just me. All 6 shots shot inside of 3-4 minutes.

I had this rifle scoped a few yrs ago with a smith-less mount and the rocket nozzle flash hider. Average group at 100yrds was around 4" IIRC. So my conclusion with this rifle is the factory rocket nozzle may very well have affected group size.

The frigg`n thing is loud, louder than it was, ear plugs and noise cancelling muffs are a must. If the shot dosn`t kill the deer, the noise will....

Going to the range today to shoot this rifle some more. Got 80 RP 180grn sp rounds from a friend last week.

More of a test for the inertial recoil pad I installed. Should be interesting.

I`ll report the results.

Honkytonk wrote: How do you shoot those little pieces of tape downrange?

Ok time for the range report. Went out this morning, snow on the ground, stiff breeze right to left, and 30deg F. Targets right way up this time...

 Static zero`d at 25yrds, peering down the bore and correcting the reticle, a few clicks up and to the right. Did the same a 100 yrds then fired 5 rounds(150grn Speer psp flat base)

 First pic is how I shot this, second shows patched first group, corrections then next group.

 Third shows patched second group, corrections then my last group, the shot in the 8 ring low I pulled, fingers were aching cold at that point so I packed it in.

 The patch at 2:00, 9 ring is not from this outing.

 Shows better potential than with irons that`s for sure.

The scope is an old `70`s Weaver, K3-1 German #1(post cross hair)

The way it`s set up now, I could shoot it all day long, only a slight nudge to the shoulder, very uneventful.

Oh gawd Rhode Island!

I had a customer in Rhode Island, we always got crap shipping stuff to her from NYC They wanted to know "what State Rhode Island was in".

The funny thing is she lived on an island in Rhode island!

Talk about confusion!

Her neighbor was her phone, the phone company gave them so much grief about running a phone line to an Island they simply shared a line (& a phone with its billing) to the house maybe 50 yds away which was on "mainland Rhode Island" they'd tell the caller to hold, or call back, & row from their pier to her pier maybe 20yds? & yell. Then they'd row her back to answer the phone!