GigaBuist
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OK, so I got my Hornady soft point ammo in 7.5Swiss in the mail the other day and took the K31 out to the range for the first time today.
Setup sandbags, load one round, set a sand back on top of the action and make a rough aim down range and low. Pulled trigger and yep, it went boom. Inspected the bag for any burn marks from gasses seeping out of the action and it was OK. Expended round looked fine too. No bulging, no odd marks at all.
Repeat again with no sandbag on top and face away from the action -- no problems. Not that I expected any.
Ok, four aimed shots at a target 25 yards away. Elevation is right on, every round is touching another one in a verticle line and they're all about 1" left of the bulls. MIght be the gun, might be me.
Ran a target out to 100 yards and finished off the box of 20 rounds. All the shots are about 4" left this time on average but they're pretty scattered. It's me, not the gun. Think it's time for new glasses if you ask me.
One thing I was NOT expecting was the kick. Maybe I'm a recoil wuss but I could swear it was beating me up worse than my Mosin Nagant M44. It was actually knocking the wind out of me and it hurt like heck by the time I got done with that box of 20.
I'm starting to think I have a problem with properly shouldering rifles or something. I keeping seeing on here that I should have the stock bedded down more toward my pectoral muscle than on the far end of my shoulder (makes sense) but that's not working. When I lower my head to get a cheek weld the rifle just comes up and back into a position putting it right smack dab on the muscle wrapping around my shoulder. Maybe it's just the K31's stock that doesn't fit me well and causes this. I never really notice that "whump" feeling so much with my other rifles but they're mostly intermediate cartridges.
With the K31 being so long and heavy I figured it'd be rather docile on me. Then again, maybe shooting 20 rounds of hunting grade rifle ammo and not feeling any discomfort in the shoulder region isn't a reasonable goal for a 140 pound guy.
The action on this thing is slick as snot though! Perhaps if I wasn't in a state of after every shot for a few seconds I'd actually be able to rattle 'em off pretty quick. Even without strippers the gun feels like it loads itself. Drop 'em down the action and they just magically fall right into place ready for you to tap them home in the magazine.
Setup sandbags, load one round, set a sand back on top of the action and make a rough aim down range and low. Pulled trigger and yep, it went boom. Inspected the bag for any burn marks from gasses seeping out of the action and it was OK. Expended round looked fine too. No bulging, no odd marks at all.
Repeat again with no sandbag on top and face away from the action -- no problems. Not that I expected any.
Ok, four aimed shots at a target 25 yards away. Elevation is right on, every round is touching another one in a verticle line and they're all about 1" left of the bulls. MIght be the gun, might be me.
Ran a target out to 100 yards and finished off the box of 20 rounds. All the shots are about 4" left this time on average but they're pretty scattered. It's me, not the gun. Think it's time for new glasses if you ask me.
One thing I was NOT expecting was the kick. Maybe I'm a recoil wuss but I could swear it was beating me up worse than my Mosin Nagant M44. It was actually knocking the wind out of me and it hurt like heck by the time I got done with that box of 20.
I'm starting to think I have a problem with properly shouldering rifles or something. I keeping seeing on here that I should have the stock bedded down more toward my pectoral muscle than on the far end of my shoulder (makes sense) but that's not working. When I lower my head to get a cheek weld the rifle just comes up and back into a position putting it right smack dab on the muscle wrapping around my shoulder. Maybe it's just the K31's stock that doesn't fit me well and causes this. I never really notice that "whump" feeling so much with my other rifles but they're mostly intermediate cartridges.
With the K31 being so long and heavy I figured it'd be rather docile on me. Then again, maybe shooting 20 rounds of hunting grade rifle ammo and not feeling any discomfort in the shoulder region isn't a reasonable goal for a 140 pound guy.
The action on this thing is slick as snot though! Perhaps if I wasn't in a state of after every shot for a few seconds I'd actually be able to rattle 'em off pretty quick. Even without strippers the gun feels like it loads itself. Drop 'em down the action and they just magically fall right into place ready for you to tap them home in the magazine.