You Ever Just Not Have Fun On Range Day?
Posted: 08 Aug 2018 20:38
Was looking forward to calling things settled on my Win M94 35-30 with the TLC359-190-RF, the Mini-30 7.62x39 with the TLC313-150-RF, and the M1 30 Carbine with the SC311-122-RF. Everything was a failure.
With the 35-30, I had a compressed load (105%) of H322, and over several months, despite the Factory Crimp, the bullets pushed out enough that they could only be chambered under force. Once I got the bolt closed, I didn't like the force it took, and with a bit of effort I opened the lever and had a bullet stuck in the throat! Durn it, that White Label 2500+ lube is as slick as owl excrement. Got to start over.
I continue to have problems with the Mini-30 shooting to a different point of impact with cast between sessions, a significantly different POI. Can't figure it out. Clean it up and switch to jacketed and no issue, day after day, tight groups with the Speer 123-grain SP. The cast is also going to heck beyond 50 yards. The group MOA is not consistent as the bullet moves down range. Once sighted in, again, this morning the MOA at 100 yards was probably 5. This rifle became a jacketed only rifle today. Just tired of messing with the mess.
The MOA with the 30 Carbine is identical to the Mini; the MOA goes to heck beyond 50 yards. Got to be a bullet stability issue with both. I got the barrel cleaned, and it is back to shooting jacketed. I have 135 Hornady RNSPs left out of 1K, so I ordered some Privi Partizan RNSPs from Graft this morning to see how they will shoot.
The morning was such a disappointment that I went out in the pasture beyond the range and worked.
With the 35-30, I had a compressed load (105%) of H322, and over several months, despite the Factory Crimp, the bullets pushed out enough that they could only be chambered under force. Once I got the bolt closed, I didn't like the force it took, and with a bit of effort I opened the lever and had a bullet stuck in the throat! Durn it, that White Label 2500+ lube is as slick as owl excrement. Got to start over.
I continue to have problems with the Mini-30 shooting to a different point of impact with cast between sessions, a significantly different POI. Can't figure it out. Clean it up and switch to jacketed and no issue, day after day, tight groups with the Speer 123-grain SP. The cast is also going to heck beyond 50 yards. The group MOA is not consistent as the bullet moves down range. Once sighted in, again, this morning the MOA at 100 yards was probably 5. This rifle became a jacketed only rifle today. Just tired of messing with the mess.
The MOA with the 30 Carbine is identical to the Mini; the MOA goes to heck beyond 50 yards. Got to be a bullet stability issue with both. I got the barrel cleaned, and it is back to shooting jacketed. I have 135 Hornady RNSPs left out of 1K, so I ordered some Privi Partizan RNSPs from Graft this morning to see how they will shoot.
The morning was such a disappointment that I went out in the pasture beyond the range and worked.