Catpop
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Youz guys is great!
I had already pulled the rifle down after I bought it to check, clean, and lube it.
I had scraped enough loose, no i mean scattered parts in the shop the other night to get an old Simmons 3x9 settled in a old pair of weaver rings. I never throw anything away! Then I bore sighted it.
This pm I loaded up 11 30-06 with 150 grain Sierra over 31 grains of H4895. Of course, as usual, this involved the full gamet of case preping.
This was going to be not only a test of the reduced load on my shoulder, but also the first firing test of the 1973 M70. I took it out to my pistol range to see if it would shoot, shoot straight, and hopefully group.
And shoot it did, with one ragged hole of 3 shots at 25 yards. The recoil was fantastically mild with me suffering no pain at all with a hard plastic butt plate and only a tee shirt.
Youz guys put me right on the load------Thank you!
Catpop
Youz guys is great!
I had already pulled the rifle down after I bought it to check, clean, and lube it.
I had scraped enough loose, no i mean scattered parts in the shop the other night to get an old Simmons 3x9 settled in a old pair of weaver rings. I never throw anything away! Then I bore sighted it.
This pm I loaded up 11 30-06 with 150 grain Sierra over 31 grains of H4895. Of course, as usual, this involved the full gamet of case preping.
This was going to be not only a test of the reduced load on my shoulder, but also the first firing test of the 1973 M70. I took it out to my pistol range to see if it would shoot, shoot straight, and hopefully group.
And shoot it did, with one ragged hole of 3 shots at 25 yards. The recoil was fantastically mild with me suffering no pain at all with a hard plastic butt plate and only a tee shirt.
Youz guys put me right on the load------Thank you!
Catpop