Riomouse911
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I love the look of the Mannlicher stocked carbines, especially the old spoon-bolt -double trigger versions made popular by Hemingway, etc. Ruger does a great job with their tribute to history with their stubby-barrelled RSI models, so I bought a red-pad tang safety Model 77 RSI in .243 several years ago.
As a companion to the .243, in April I bought a stainless and walnut 10/22 International from Buds. When it came in I will admit the trigger was blah, fairly heavy and a touch gritty. I hated it enough to want a BX trigger, so my Dad decided to buy me one and install it as a surprise. Sadly, the screw at the nose cap apparently acted up so he tried to use pliers to get it out .
Sufficiently scratched and buggered, and still with the offending screw in place when Dad let me know, I sent it back to Ruger for cleaning up. I put the BX in the box, and two weeks later it came back all polished up, the screw replaced, the BX installed, all under warranty. Thanks Ruger!
I popped a Simmons 3-9x32 22 Mag scope in Leupold mounts, and after almost five months of Covid-shutdown I finally got to shoot it a bit today.
25 yards front rested from a too-low to be very steady range bench, it took me about 12 shots to get the scope pretty darn close to on the money. (Once I can front and rear-bag bench it I’ll dial it in a bit more.)
I fired Aguila 36 gr HP, Armscor 36 gr HP, CCI Blazer 40 gr RN and some oddball Sterling Cross 40 gr RN loads for reliability and accuracy.
I had one initial-shot FTF with an Aguila round, but I think I didn’t seat the bolt right because I dropped the mag, reloaded the round and it fired.
I shot 5 shots at each of these bulls, 5 bulls each load. The out of the black shots were 100 pct my fault, I missed them myself by wiggling.
This gun is basically a really dressed up 10/22, but I expect it’ll consistently be pretty accurate and reliable...time will tell if that is true. I love the looks, love the feel and so far I love the way it shoots. Now, if I could just find some oak woods to hike about with it to squirrel hunt in...
Stay safe.
As a companion to the .243, in April I bought a stainless and walnut 10/22 International from Buds. When it came in I will admit the trigger was blah, fairly heavy and a touch gritty. I hated it enough to want a BX trigger, so my Dad decided to buy me one and install it as a surprise. Sadly, the screw at the nose cap apparently acted up so he tried to use pliers to get it out .
Sufficiently scratched and buggered, and still with the offending screw in place when Dad let me know, I sent it back to Ruger for cleaning up. I put the BX in the box, and two weeks later it came back all polished up, the screw replaced, the BX installed, all under warranty. Thanks Ruger!
I popped a Simmons 3-9x32 22 Mag scope in Leupold mounts, and after almost five months of Covid-shutdown I finally got to shoot it a bit today.
25 yards front rested from a too-low to be very steady range bench, it took me about 12 shots to get the scope pretty darn close to on the money. (Once I can front and rear-bag bench it I’ll dial it in a bit more.)
I fired Aguila 36 gr HP, Armscor 36 gr HP, CCI Blazer 40 gr RN and some oddball Sterling Cross 40 gr RN loads for reliability and accuracy.
I had one initial-shot FTF with an Aguila round, but I think I didn’t seat the bolt right because I dropped the mag, reloaded the round and it fired.
I shot 5 shots at each of these bulls, 5 bulls each load. The out of the black shots were 100 pct my fault, I missed them myself by wiggling.
This gun is basically a really dressed up 10/22, but I expect it’ll consistently be pretty accurate and reliable...time will tell if that is true. I love the looks, love the feel and so far I love the way it shoots. Now, if I could just find some oak woods to hike about with it to squirrel hunt in...
Stay safe.
