22 shooting

[Don McDowell]

We've been shooting a little bit every week this winter. So just for kicks and grins, here's the target I shot today with the CPA 50 ft, offhand.
The sighter bull also has a group Carol shot with her lowall off the bench.
Norma tac ammo.
   

[Creeker]

That's a bit better than I'm doing in my basement at 10 meters using cheap pellets.

[Don McDowell]

Yes that CPA shoots way above my pay grade.

[Caprock]

Got pretty mad at that 12 0'clock target didn't you?

[Kurt]

Your shooting a lot better off hand then I am Don and I'm shooting in a indoor range. Very good.
Can you see that target using tang sights?
It seems like the more I practice off hand the worse I get.

[Don McDowell]

Sam that was the first one I shot, and then Carol put a bunch into it from the bench.
Kurt yes it's no problem seeing the bull. We put work lights down in front of the target, and when the temps are warm enough we open the barn doors. I try to shoot at least 50 rounds off hand very week. But this last time everything just seemed to really fall together.

[Kurt]

Well your doing good.
I haven't been shooting my .22 CPA as much as I figured I would for practice. I had the .22 build to match my .44-75 CPA weight and feel for shooting off hand practice but I spent more time screwing the .22 barrel off and putting the .44-100 barrel on that action to get it working before the season starts. I more or less stopped messing with that barrel and it's sitting in the corner till I get a lathe up and running and I will run my .44-90bn reamer in it if the case head will clear the hammer.
I will have to talk to Gail or Paul when I pick up the .45-90 and see if they will open the chamber for me.
I put a lot of time lapping the top of the lands to shallow up the grooves in that barrel and it has improved it. I also opened the chamber from the .44-75 to the .44-100 rem st and this knocked the vertical down more, but not enough.
I will take it to Alliance in the spring for some long range work before I junk that barrel.

Kurt

[Don McDowell]

The thing I'm really tickled with this 22 is being able to shoot AA with irons, and just being short of breaking into AAA. I'm sure I could shoot AAA with a scope with no problem.
This rifle also flies against the conventional wisdom of not cleaning a 22. Cleaning after every couple hundred rounds really helps to keep groups small. And when the temps are warmer, running a dry patch thru the bore between relays helps quite a bit.

[Old Jim]

Many posts are on here by folks that ask "how, why, what if, how come its like this?"

Those questions, and many others, are asked so that the rest of us can also learn the answers, from the findings.

A big thanks to those that are not satisfied with the status- quo,

Jim

[Kurt]

Jim.

Will we ever learn everything about this sport??

I got started with a used .22 single shot JC Higgins and a box of Hiawatha .22 shorts for my 12th birthday. I think my Mother got it for me to take care of the rabbit population that ate her garden and put the needed food on the table. No handout in those days
at age 14 I seen a .43 Spanish Roller in the back pages of the NRA magazine I could afford on my $20. a month wages I got helping out on the farm down the road. $10. of those monthly wages went to Mother.
Well this is where the love for the black powder cartridge rifle shooting started. Most of the powder I used in that .43 came out of a barrel of black blasting powder in the machine shed we used for clearing tree stumps out of the fields and splitting big logs so we could handle then to put on the Allice Chalmers mounted buzz saw. The blasting powder shot pretty well after I learned to take window screen and sift out the big stull.
The shooting the old powder rifles, front stuffers as well as suppository rifles has been on top of my favorite shooting all my life.
I don't think you will ever find that loading and shooting these rifles will ever be "this is the way you have to do it" I still find a better way.

Kurt