New H&R 5200 .22lr

[Mustang51]

I recently glommed an H&R 5200 at an auction. Very similar to my H&R M12, but with a walnut stock.







A buddy is putting on a small bore "match stick match" on Monday, so I used a Viani scope mount and mounted a B&L 6-24 scope on this one. I took it to the range yesterday along with a Remington 513T that I will be using (my younger son will use the H&R).

Both rifles shot well, but as the practice session went on, the H&R developed a habit of not extracting the shells. Toward the end, every shell had to be pushed out with a brass rod from the bore.

Anyone know what could cause this?

 

[45lcshooter]

Can't really help, other than their might be a bur on extractor.

But that is a nice looking rifle.

 

[Mustang51]

Thanks, 45lc

I cleaned out the chamber, bolt, and barrel and got far fewer failures to extract.

I've got a couple of M12's and compared the spring tension on the extractors on the 5200 to the M12's...M12's seemed to have more tension.

 

[Mustang51]

My son and I shot the match yesterday, he with the 5200, me with a scoped Remington 513T. I mounted a Bausch and Lomb 6-24X scope on the 5200 and a Bushnell 3200 Elite 10X on the Remington.




It was pretty cold (low 30's) for these parts and it seemed to have affected the zero of the rifles. Winds were light and variable. We had to re-zero the rifles a bit to get them back on target. The match was shot off a sand bag front rest, no (except for your hand) rear rest At 50 yards.

Here is my son's warm up target. Unfortunately we turned in our official targets.



The bullseyes on the left and right were to warm up and re-zero the rifle. The center group was a 4 shot (.403") group to confirm the re-zero. You can see some of my son's match stick hits as he settled in on the target. He was using the CMP black box practice ammo.

I'm kinda interested in what honest-to-God target ammo would do.