Joshua M. Smith
Member
Hello,
It was suggested on another board that I shim the barrel on my Mosin M44.
I did so with an old business card. While I need to play around with the placement and thickness a bit, I think I'm on the right track. I started by setting it half an inch back from where the front of the stock first contacted the barrel.
Shots fired with surplus 148gr Czech ammo:
Five shots to warm myself and the barrel up as it was in the upper 30's by the time I got out to shoot. I did this easily, and I think that if I had concentrated, it could have been better.
The sights were set on 200 meters as I forgot to move them. This is why I have high shots on targets one and two.
This group was shot next. I believe the flyer was due to the fact that I was shooting military surplus. The other four... well, I've never done this before.
This is the last target fired with the Czech surplus.
I've noticed that, with the exception of black bullseye targets such as the SR-!, I do not shoot as well with large aiming points.
I had some Russian stuff on hand, and it had always been a challenge to keep all five on the paper at 50yds. This showed definite improvement as well, shooting about as well as the Czech did previously.
First shots with the Russian fodder...
... and five more.
This target was shot rapid fire with 10 rounds of Russian and five rounds of Czech in rapidly fading light. I got 12/15 onto the target and count that as good as I wasn't paying much attention to the sights.
I still can't believe that second target shot with the Czech surplus. It took a lot of concentration, and discounting the flyer, measures less than an inch - a quarter would cover it.
I still hope to modify the sights sometime after Christmas. I strongly feel that the stock sights are what is holding me back from groups consistently like the group on target #2.
As an aside, I do have some Brown Bear, 40 rounds, but am saving it for when I don't have time to clean right away, so I didn't see how it shot with commercial fodder.
Thus far, besides the rifle and ammunition for it, I've only spent money on a new cleaning rod, which I was wanting anyway, and a can of foaming bore cleaner. The rest of the stuff I've used to clean and accurize the rifle I either already had, or made, from things around the house. Even my cotton patches are made from old shirts I have laying around.
It can be done on a budget, ladies and gents, contrary to what I was told when I first started tinkering around trying to make this rifle shoot better.
Josh <><
It was suggested on another board that I shim the barrel on my Mosin M44.
I did so with an old business card. While I need to play around with the placement and thickness a bit, I think I'm on the right track. I started by setting it half an inch back from where the front of the stock first contacted the barrel.
Shots fired with surplus 148gr Czech ammo:
Five shots to warm myself and the barrel up as it was in the upper 30's by the time I got out to shoot. I did this easily, and I think that if I had concentrated, it could have been better.
The sights were set on 200 meters as I forgot to move them. This is why I have high shots on targets one and two.
This group was shot next. I believe the flyer was due to the fact that I was shooting military surplus. The other four... well, I've never done this before.
This is the last target fired with the Czech surplus.
I've noticed that, with the exception of black bullseye targets such as the SR-!, I do not shoot as well with large aiming points.
I had some Russian stuff on hand, and it had always been a challenge to keep all five on the paper at 50yds. This showed definite improvement as well, shooting about as well as the Czech did previously.
First shots with the Russian fodder...
... and five more.
This target was shot rapid fire with 10 rounds of Russian and five rounds of Czech in rapidly fading light. I got 12/15 onto the target and count that as good as I wasn't paying much attention to the sights.
I still can't believe that second target shot with the Czech surplus. It took a lot of concentration, and discounting the flyer, measures less than an inch - a quarter would cover it.
I still hope to modify the sights sometime after Christmas. I strongly feel that the stock sights are what is holding me back from groups consistently like the group on target #2.
As an aside, I do have some Brown Bear, 40 rounds, but am saving it for when I don't have time to clean right away, so I didn't see how it shot with commercial fodder.
Thus far, besides the rifle and ammunition for it, I've only spent money on a new cleaning rod, which I was wanting anyway, and a can of foaming bore cleaner. The rest of the stuff I've used to clean and accurize the rifle I either already had, or made, from things around the house. Even my cotton patches are made from old shirts I have laying around.
It can be done on a budget, ladies and gents, contrary to what I was told when I first started tinkering around trying to make this rifle shoot better.
Josh <><
