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The 9 was the 1st shot after changing targets, maybe a cold barrel? Followed by the edge 10 at 4 o'clock, and then the 3 in the ragged hole. Sights were the standard Parker-Hale peep sights with 1/4 minute adjustments, target was a reduced one of the 100m ISSF target for the 75m distance.
All shooting prone, 2-point sling, no support. Seems like rifle and ammo really get along! SK really produces some quality stuff, the long range match also shoots very well in this rifle.

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The 9 was the 1st shot after changing targets, maybe a cold barrel? Followed by the edge 10 at 4 o'clock, and then the 3 in the ragged hole. Sights were the standard Parker-Hale peep sights with 1/4 minute adjustments, target was a reduced one of the 100m ISSF target for the 75m distance.
All shooting prone, 2-point sling, no support. Seems like rifle and ammo really get along! SK really produces some quality stuff, the long range match also shoots very well in this rifle.

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This CPA .22 is a fine shooter and I shot 4 different .22 manufactures shells and it shoots them with equal accuracy.
I had to pull the MVA 5-B scope off the rifle and I put the DZ scope on and I was able to use it well enough to hit what I aimed at "D

This rifle is a switch barrel rifle for the .22 and the .44-75 Ballard but I think I will have Gail put the .44-75 barrel on another receiver so I don't have to keep switching barrels, I don't want this fine shooter loosen up.

Kurt]]> It's been a no match season so far for me this season so it will be fun to make the 3-1/2 hr trip north. I hope I can remember to find the range

This CPA .22 is a fine shooter and I shot 4 different .22 manufactures shells and it shoots them with equal accuracy.
I had to pull the MVA 5-B scope off the rifle and I put the DZ scope on and I was able to use it well enough to hit what I aimed at "D

This rifle is a switch barrel rifle for the .22 and the .44-75 Ballard but I think I will have Gail put the .44-75 barrel on another receiver so I don't have to keep switching barrels, I don't want this fine shooter loosen up.

Kurt]]> http://historicshooting.com/thread-3221.html Mon, 31 Jan 2022 21:29:46 -0600 Kurt]]> http://historicshooting.com/thread-3221.html It's one heck of a fine shooter but it's just to heavy for my liking.
I build this rifle as a 25# Tollofson and I had Shiloh use my 17 twist .44 Kreiger barrel because they did not want to change the gears or didn't have a 17 twist button. The barrel is 35" long and 1.3 unturned diameter unfinished because I felt it would keep it cooler than a blued barrel when the sun hits it.
I just don't shoot this rifle for the reason mentioned above.
I been thinking turning the barrel down to get it at 12#. Have any of you had one turned down a heavy barrel and have you seen any changes in accuracy doing this with the same barrel just turned down and shortened 5" ?

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I build this rifle as a 25# Tollofson and I had Shiloh use my 17 twist .44 Kreiger barrel because they did not want to change the gears or didn't have a 17 twist button. The barrel is 35" long and 1.3 unturned diameter unfinished because I felt it would keep it cooler than a blued barrel when the sun hits it.
I just don't shoot this rifle for the reason mentioned above.
I been thinking turning the barrel down to get it at 12#. Have any of you had one turned down a heavy barrel and have you seen any changes in accuracy doing this with the same barrel just turned down and shortened 5" ?

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Looking to get rid of the current buttstock on the Japchester Low Wall. I tried CPA and Treebone , but no avail. The rifle sports a Badger Barrel and shoots great. The Japchester High Wall wood will not work because it is a straight cut receiver and the low wall receiver is dished.

Any suggestions?

Cheers,
Steve]]>
Looking to get rid of the current buttstock on the Japchester Low Wall. I tried CPA and Treebone , but no avail. The rifle sports a Badger Barrel and shoots great. The Japchester High Wall wood will not work because it is a straight cut receiver and the low wall receiver is dished.

Any suggestions?

Cheers,
Steve]]> http://historicshooting.com/thread-3034.html Tue, 28 Jul 2020 13:41:53 -0500 Shutinlead]]> http://historicshooting.com/thread-3034.html
My son was on GB a couple weeks ago and found this and being the support group he is, kept urging me.
It appears to be something special, to me anyway. I have a Ballard I recently put together from a casting and it's going to require most of my attention for the next few months, so this one will only get a small portion of my focus for a while. It's a tough decision...
Here's sharing a few pictures from the little bit of range time I could muster.

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My son was on GB a couple weeks ago and found this and being the support group he is, kept urging me.
It appears to be something special, to me anyway. I have a Ballard I recently put together from a casting and it's going to require most of my attention for the next few months, so this one will only get a small portion of my focus for a while. It's a tough decision...
Here's sharing a few pictures from the little bit of range time I could muster.

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  PB6.jpg (Size: 49.86 KB / Downloads: 23) ]]> http://historicshooting.com/thread-2988.html Fri, 15 May 2020 22:10:11 -0500 Fogman01]]> http://historicshooting.com/thread-2988.html We had learned that the nice groups we got with Norma Match at 100 yards became not so nice at 200 yds. Today we got some calmer winds and tested four different .22 match ammo through both our rifles. After each string I thoroughly cleaned the bore so each string was from the same barrel condition. We each shot ten shot groups at 200 yards with Eley Tenex (red box), SK Long Range Match, Lapua Midas, and Eley Match (black box).
Phoebe shot 9 of ten shots inside a half minute vertically with the Eley Tenex. She shot all ten inside a minute vertically with 6 shots inside half a minute with the SK LR. The Eley Match was not as good as either of the first two. The Lapua Midas was noticeably much worse than the other three.
I found that the Tenex and SK LR were almost the same with good groups in my rifle. The Eley match gave me about 12" of vertical which was way more than the other two. The Midas was like buckshot all over the paper. We both were having a little bit of trouble keeping our horizontal where we wanted it even with only slight cross winds.
So the Norma will do for chickens and pigs - the SK (cheaper than Tenex by half) seems to be fine at 200 yards so it should hit turkeys at 150. Phoebe's sub MOA vertical with the 10X was impressive but the SK LR was almost as good. With my rifle the two are about the same so no need to spend twice as much for a marginally better group. We'll try it again. Repeatable results before buying a lot of bulk ammo.]]> We had learned that the nice groups we got with Norma Match at 100 yards became not so nice at 200 yds. Today we got some calmer winds and tested four different .22 match ammo through both our rifles. After each string I thoroughly cleaned the bore so each string was from the same barrel condition. We each shot ten shot groups at 200 yards with Eley Tenex (red box), SK Long Range Match, Lapua Midas, and Eley Match (black box).
Phoebe shot 9 of ten shots inside a half minute vertically with the Eley Tenex. She shot all ten inside a minute vertically with 6 shots inside half a minute with the SK LR. The Eley Match was not as good as either of the first two. The Lapua Midas was noticeably much worse than the other three.
I found that the Tenex and SK LR were almost the same with good groups in my rifle. The Eley match gave me about 12" of vertical which was way more than the other two. The Midas was like buckshot all over the paper. We both were having a little bit of trouble keeping our horizontal where we wanted it even with only slight cross winds.
So the Norma will do for chickens and pigs - the SK (cheaper than Tenex by half) seems to be fine at 200 yards so it should hit turkeys at 150. Phoebe's sub MOA vertical with the 10X was impressive but the SK LR was almost as good. With my rifle the two are about the same so no need to spend twice as much for a marginally better group. We'll try it again. Repeatable results before buying a lot of bulk ammo.]]> http://historicshooting.com/thread-2711.html Sun, 30 Dec 2018 21:17:51 -0600 Steve Anderson]]> http://historicshooting.com/thread-2711.html
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  IMG_3290.JPG (Size: 466.71 KB / Downloads: 45) I planned shooting some .22's over the chronograph using a 28" and 24" barrels but the chronograph was to cold to pick up the rounds going over the traps so after reading Dons Ammo does matter I wanted to see how the match ammo compares to bulk.I ended up shooting 14 different types of boxes 5 rounds each it was on the cool side but not bad around 33 degrees but the winds were up 8 to 12 mph a little harder then I wanted to test the rounds at 50 yards so i moved the box to a Lazard 32 yards against a log and I never changed the sight settings after getting a zero. I used the MVA scope and shot off the bench. This was really not a good test to get the most out of these shells because I noticed the box wiggle from the wind several times and I held some shots till it settled down and I think some of the horizontal stringing might have been the box moving I didn't catch.
Here are the rounds I used.
#1 Norma match
#2 Norma TAC-22
#3 Win subsonic
#4 Rem Club XTRA
#5 Aguila rifle match
#5 SK rifle match
#7 Wolf match target
#8 Augila 22 target
#9 Rem golden bulk
#10 Rem yellow jacket hp
#11 Rem CB LV .22 shorts
#12 CCI CB
#13 Rem Target left over from early 1980
#14 black powder loads with Lyman cast bullet shot with out fouling control.
I just wish I could have checked the ES and SD while I was doing this.
All in all this CPA rifle seems to just about digest and what ever I feed it. I think the heavy Douglas XX barrel and chamber has some play in it's performance.

The target inside the black ring is ! 1/4" and the dot is 5/16"

Kurt]]>
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  IMG_3290.JPG (Size: 466.71 KB / Downloads: 45) I planned shooting some .22's over the chronograph using a 28" and 24" barrels but the chronograph was to cold to pick up the rounds going over the traps so after reading Dons Ammo does matter I wanted to see how the match ammo compares to bulk.I ended up shooting 14 different types of boxes 5 rounds each it was on the cool side but not bad around 33 degrees but the winds were up 8 to 12 mph a little harder then I wanted to test the rounds at 50 yards so i moved the box to a Lazard 32 yards against a log and I never changed the sight settings after getting a zero. I used the MVA scope and shot off the bench. This was really not a good test to get the most out of these shells because I noticed the box wiggle from the wind several times and I held some shots till it settled down and I think some of the horizontal stringing might have been the box moving I didn't catch.
Here are the rounds I used.
#1 Norma match
#2 Norma TAC-22
#3 Win subsonic
#4 Rem Club XTRA
#5 Aguila rifle match
#5 SK rifle match
#7 Wolf match target
#8 Augila 22 target
#9 Rem golden bulk
#10 Rem yellow jacket hp
#11 Rem CB LV .22 shorts
#12 CCI CB
#13 Rem Target left over from early 1980
#14 black powder loads with Lyman cast bullet shot with out fouling control.
I just wish I could have checked the ES and SD while I was doing this.
All in all this CPA rifle seems to just about digest and what ever I feed it. I think the heavy Douglas XX barrel and chamber has some play in it's performance.

The target inside the black ring is ! 1/4" and the dot is 5/16"

Kurt]]> http://historicshooting.com/thread-2693.html Wed, 12 Dec 2018 15:09:07 -0600 Don McDowell]]> http://historicshooting.com/thread-2693.html All shot from 25 yards off a bench

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Federal auto match


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  IMG_0424.JPG (Size: 1.58 MB / Downloads: 26) ]]> http://historicshooting.com/thread-2692.html Mon, 10 Dec 2018 14:29:48 -0600 Don McDowell]]> http://historicshooting.com/thread-2692.html None of the federal stuff would shoot more than mediocre at 200 meters. Aquila rifle match was mediocre plus..
Now for the head scratcher part.
At 200 meters Lapua Center x shoots real nice groups on paper, but on the ram swinger WW Super X T22 shoots a five shot group about the size of a 50 cent piece ... Got to ponder this one a bit...
Last week shooting indoors at 25 yards, it really showed an almost hatred for the Norma match but would shoot bug hole groups with the T 22..]]> None of the federal stuff would shoot more than mediocre at 200 meters. Aquila rifle match was mediocre plus..
Now for the head scratcher part.
At 200 meters Lapua Center x shoots real nice groups on paper, but on the ram swinger WW Super X T22 shoots a five shot group about the size of a 50 cent piece ... Got to ponder this one a bit...
Last week shooting indoors at 25 yards, it really showed an almost hatred for the Norma match but would shoot bug hole groups with the T 22..]]> http://historicshooting.com/thread-2691.html Mon, 10 Dec 2018 10:04:03 -0600 Kurt]]> http://historicshooting.com/thread-2691.html I have always preferred using subsonic velocity .22 for match ammo over the HV because I anyway find the subsonic less effected by wind then the HV ammo. I think this stuff is a little over 900 fps from what I have read but accuracy is reported to be very good.

Kurt]]> I have always preferred using subsonic velocity .22 for match ammo over the HV because I anyway find the subsonic less effected by wind then the HV ammo. I think this stuff is a little over 900 fps from what I have read but accuracy is reported to be very good.

Kurt]]> http://historicshooting.com/thread-2541.html Tue, 24 Apr 2018 18:02:51 -0500 Snocat]]> http://historicshooting.com/thread-2541.html
200 meters with bulk ammo and CCI

Sent from my XT1650 using Tapatalk]]>
200 meters with bulk ammo and CCI

Sent from my XT1650 using Tapatalk]]> http://historicshooting.com/thread-2528.html Tue, 10 Apr 2018 20:31:37 -0500 Don McDowell]]> http://historicshooting.com/thread-2528.html The plan is to send the barrel and rifle back to CSA and have Pat do the work on it.
Got notification today that McGowen shipped the barrel to me today.]]> The plan is to send the barrel and rifle back to CSA and have Pat do the work on it.
Got notification today that McGowen shipped the barrel to me today.]]> http://historicshooting.com/thread-2405.html Wed, 06 Dec 2017 10:41:50 -0600 Fogman01]]> http://historicshooting.com/thread-2405.html http://historicshooting.com/thread-2288.html Sat, 15 Jul 2017 10:44:08 -0500 Don Sketcher]]> http://historicshooting.com/thread-2288.html
I would like to modify it to fit a 50-70.

Don]]>
I would like to modify it to fit a 50-70.

Don]]>