Dave DeLaurant
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I got out of the house for a couple hours yesterday and visited my indoor pistol club for a little session with two Swiss karabiners.
The K11 was new to me, purchased from Simpsons and having just arrived home on Tuesday. It has an excellent bore and a competently refinished stock, but has certainly seen plenty of use. It came with sling and muzzle cap.
The second rifle was a K31 I've owned for a couple of decades, purchased from Big-5 back when they were practically giving them away.
Since my indoor range permits pistol ammo only, I was shooting with a pair of single loaded .32 H&R chamber sleeves and two different bullet types.
Note that the LRN should have read LSWC. The extractor grooves on these steel sleeves do not perfectly match those on 7.5 Swiss brass -- i.e. they don't fit a standard shellholder for 7.5 Swiss. I had to use a screwdriver a couple of times when the K11 extractor failed to pull them from the chamber, but that isn't difficult since the rear lugs make the breechface easily accessible. The K31 extracted them every time.
After a bumbling first attempt, my shooting settled down and the K11 produced a pair of perfectly acceptable groups:
Switching to my K31, groups improved quite significantly. I credit this to a combination of longer sighting radius, lighter trigger and having shot these last, more than half an hour after the exertion from dragging in my gear from the car. The first stage takeup on the K31 trigger is really, really long, BTW.
If I did the math right, that left-hand group works out to 1.73 MOA. When you consider these pistol bullets passed through something like 2" of freebore before reaching rifling, this really is pretty good accuracy.
I remembered to bring my prescription shooting glasses this time, which assisted my aging eyesight tremendously. I shot all the groups seated and off a front rest, with my left elbow supported and my right hanging in the air. It was a satisfying session -- no unpleasant surprises for once.
The K11 was new to me, purchased from Simpsons and having just arrived home on Tuesday. It has an excellent bore and a competently refinished stock, but has certainly seen plenty of use. It came with sling and muzzle cap.
The second rifle was a K31 I've owned for a couple of decades, purchased from Big-5 back when they were practically giving them away.
Since my indoor range permits pistol ammo only, I was shooting with a pair of single loaded .32 H&R chamber sleeves and two different bullet types.
Note that the LRN should have read LSWC. The extractor grooves on these steel sleeves do not perfectly match those on 7.5 Swiss brass -- i.e. they don't fit a standard shellholder for 7.5 Swiss. I had to use a screwdriver a couple of times when the K11 extractor failed to pull them from the chamber, but that isn't difficult since the rear lugs make the breechface easily accessible. The K31 extracted them every time.
After a bumbling first attempt, my shooting settled down and the K11 produced a pair of perfectly acceptable groups:
Switching to my K31, groups improved quite significantly. I credit this to a combination of longer sighting radius, lighter trigger and having shot these last, more than half an hour after the exertion from dragging in my gear from the car. The first stage takeup on the K31 trigger is really, really long, BTW.
If I did the math right, that left-hand group works out to 1.73 MOA. When you consider these pistol bullets passed through something like 2" of freebore before reaching rifling, this really is pretty good accuracy.
I remembered to bring my prescription shooting glasses this time, which assisted my aging eyesight tremendously. I shot all the groups seated and off a front rest, with my left elbow supported and my right hanging in the air. It was a satisfying session -- no unpleasant surprises for once.
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