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Early Hornets had a .223 bore, 16-1 twist. In the 23D I had I used both .223 and .224 bullets, made no difference in accuracy.
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Shimming the bolt solved my problem. Started with a steel shim washer with the correct inside diameter and hand fit it for outside diameter and thickness.
I had toyed with idea of shimming it a year or two ago and after taking the bolt apart and putting it back together I had set it aside.
I hated to give up on it as it is what I was looking for in a light weight walking varminter, and to me it's more pleasing to the eye than my new plas-tikka.
Put a Leupold M8 4X on it and took it out and test fired it with some .223 Hornet bullets/Lil' Gun loads, then progressed to some factory Winchester 46 gr HP's. It functioned fine.
What a fun gun to shoot, glad I didn't get rid of it.
"I was born in the log cabin I helped my grandfather build"
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Always great to get a classic back doing what it was made to do... Congratulations!
Was Mike Armstrong. Got logged off; couldn't log back on. RE-registered my old call sign, Mesa.
FNG. Again.
Mike Armstrong
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