Steve; Good day to you sir, I hope it's as mild out your way as we're experiencing and all else is as it needs to be with you and yours.
Ever since you mentioned you're the proud owner of those reworked MN rifles, I've been trying to post a video here, but for reasons beyond my comprehension it won't let me.
Anyways if you're not familiar with this channel, it's two fellows who take military rifles and shoot them out to 500 yards to see how they perform. Usually the shooter is Henry Chan and my goodness that man must have eyeballs that a hawk would envy. I'll note he's got really decent shooting form too.
Their youtube channel is 9-Hole Reviews
Anyway Steve, I thought this one might interest you as well as the one where they ran a No 4 Mk.1 sniper clone out that far.
Again sir, I'm stumped as to why I couldn't link these two videos in. It will allow me to link a chainsaw rebuilder from Alberta or a firewood supplier and arborist from Vancouver Island, but seems to be unwilling to pet me link any 9-Hole Review videos.
Hopefully you or someone enjoys them as I have. It's of interest to me that the Finnish reworked MN beat the pants off of scoped rifles in many cases.
Have a good remainder of the week sir.
Dwayne
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Forty years ago, I could have seen those sights. Today, the barrel might as well be bare. I have an '03 Springfield set up with a 1950's 2.5 Weaver and, from a sitting position, I can hit the 500 meter rams at will. Offhand, it has been noted, I can't hit my ass with both hands. GD
As I get older, I prefer scopes more, or aperture sights.
Originally Posted by BC30cal
Steve; Good day to you sir, I hope it's as mild out your way as we're experiencing and all else is as it needs to be with you and yours.
Ever since you mentioned you're the proud owner of those reworked MN rifles, I've been trying to post a video here, but for reasons beyond my comprehension it won't let me.
Anyways if you're not familiar with this channel, it's two fellows who take military rifles and shoot them out to 500 yards to see how they perform. Usually the shooter is Henry Chan and my goodness that man must have eyeballs that a hawk would envy. I'll note he's got really decent shooting form too.
Their youtube channel is 9-Hole Reviews
Anyway Steve, I thought this one might interest you as well as the one where they ran a No 4 Mk.1 sniper clone out that far.
Again sir, I'm stumped as to why I couldn't link these two videos in. It will allow me to link a chainsaw rebuilder from Alberta or a firewood supplier and arborist from Vancouver Island, but seems to be unwilling to pet me link any 9-Hole Review videos.
Hopefully you or someone enjoys them as I have. It's of interest to me that the Finnish reworked MN beat the pants off of scoped rifles in many cases.
Have a good remainder of the week sir.
Dwayne
Thanks for the videos, Dwayne. If you look at your quote above, you will see that your youtube video link is divided at the & sign. You quote everything before the & sign like this, but without the spaces of course -
Usually when posting a youtube video I thought I'd just copied and pasted the thing and it'd worked....
As my late father used to say to me "If you're not learning something Dwayne, take a good look around - you're likely dead!"
Then he'd laugh his deep laugh, touch my arm the way older guy's do sometimes and say, "But you know, some days you're going to find out you don't want to learn that again."
Great stuff guys, thanks for posting. I have 20+ years with model 39 Finn...and I didn't even know about the "fine tuning" feature of that sight. Mine was a non-collector so I put a scope on it, mostly because of my age, but it is as effective at long range as any rifle in my battery. And if ever there is an ugly gun contest...blue ribbon.
Well this is a fine pickle we're in, should'a listened to Joe McCarthy and George Orwell I guess.
Because I have Finnish MNs that I wish to keep in mint condition, I decided to get a 7.62x54r barrel for my TC Pro Hunter. I will scope it and likely use it as a range rifle. Of course, it will be a 308 barrel. The picture is a 30-303 barrel, but it will be a duplicate of this. This is a stainless steel, 26 inch bull barrel. One inch thick, untapered.
Forty years ago, I could have seen those sights. Today, the barrel might as well be bare. I have an '03 Springfield set up with a 1950's 2.5 Weaver and, from a sitting position, I can hit the 500 meter rams at will. Offhand, it has been noted, I can't hit my ass with both hands. GD
The older we get the tougher shooting offhand becomes--or so I have noted about myself...
I have a couple friends who are now in their 70's. In the 90's they were pretty successful Silhouette competitors in the region. They readily concede shooting offhand well becomes a lot more difficult as one gets older.
But boy, they can still shoot like the dickens from the bench!
Casey
Not being married to any particular political party sure makes it a lot easier to look at the world more objectively... Having said that, MAGA.
I was kind of hoping stiffer joints would translate to a steadier hold but that seems to not be the case. Every once in a while, for a brief period, I hold steady as I ever did but that's just a teaser and, the next time I step up, I'm back to the new normal which is not pretty. I can remember some of the shooting I did fifty years ago and it's like it wasn't the same guy which, I guess it wasn't! GD
There are some things that get easier with age. One is the ease at which one can miss the bull. That skill seems more highly developed.
Thought I would show you what came out of of an ammo box of 7.62x54r assembled approximately 1995. Six cases showed corrosion. I pulled the bullets and saw this. The powder came out of the case in clumps. Oh my. Originally, I saw a couple of cases that had corrosion around the rim of the case neck. As a result, I pulled all the bullets in the box and found a few more that were feeling poorly.
Ugaly Steve. I hope to never find any like that. My goal is to load them so I can shoot them then load them some more, rinse and repeat.......................... Be Well, RZ.
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Ugaly Steve. I hope to never find any like that. My goal is to load them so I can shoot them then load them some more, rinse and repeat.......................... Be Well, RZ.
They were. They were contaminated with what appeared to be lube. This caused the clumping and the sheen on the propellant. The contamination only appeared in five cases. I had a note in my log about this particular load. I tried RCBS Case Lube. I recall tossing it in the garbage because it left a mess on my cases and dies. I believe it was the culprit here.
When I used RCBS case lube I liked it but at the end of the process I put all resized cases in a 3# coffee can of lacquer thinner. Ran them over a screen to drain and save the old thinner. Then kept them on the screen outside to dry. And lacquer dries fast if anything. The process also cleaned a lot of primer residue out of the primer pockets. Today I would say I was a polluter but it worked well. Don't any others do this without going outside first. It will 'splode if around flame or maybe a hot coal. That is a nasty chemical. Steve Be Well, RZ.
Yes, that was one thing that I didn't particularly care for.
I use a tiny bit of bullet maker's lube, available from Corbin's for $8/2 ox or $35/16 oz. RCECo sells it as well, probably a little cheaper than brother Dave. You can make it from lanolin even cheaper, but most people just want to get some and be done with it. 16 oz would last several lifetimes if all you are doing with it is case resizing. From what I have seen, people use far too much lube on their cases, regardless of brand or type. That makes clean up more onerous than it needs to be. I used to be guilty of that myself. I learned that with just a teeny smear on your fingers, you can safely lube and wipe it off after sizing.
The cheap plastic bowl is what I use to put about 1/2 teaspoon of lube from the container. I put the lube on the red lid, and leave it upside down on the bench. It doesn't take up much space and is covered when not in use.
Very interesting! I've had one or more of all those rifles over the years and always found them fairly to very accurate. Can't see well enough these days to use them well.
It's a toss up between my M39s and my Lotta (91/24) for which one groups the tightest. The MGM barrel I'm ordering will be brand new, so I expect that it will shoot at least as well as my 39s. I think I will put a 10x40 Bushnell on it. It won't go hunting, and will be a range and testing toy. They are a joy to shoot.
My first Mosin Nagant rifle was a Russian 91/30. I bought a draw die from CH4D to reduce the diameter of .311 and .312 bullets to .310. WRT accuracy, the slight reduction improved group size. I traded that one off though because I didn't like the stock. It was just an average shooter, but delivered .310 bullets into 2 to 3 inches at 100 yd consistently. That is minute of deer. I only ever got one deer with it, but the cartridge flat out works.
To keep shooting cartridges like the 303 British, 7.62x54r and some others, a nice single shot is just the ticket.
Tonight, I contacted the importer for Match Grade Machine barrels to put a 7.62x54r on order. It takes about 3 months to get what I want, machined and delivered to my door.
Update: The 7.62x54r Encore barrel I ordered from Match Grade Machine in February has finally arrived at my importer after seven months. Before COVID, it only took two to three months to get a barrel up here. At least it has arrived. I can start work up over the fall and winter.
It looks like this. 26 inches long. 1 inch, straight contour.
After we finished Thanksgiving supper tonight, my oldest grandson and I pulled the scope off his 243 and replaced it with a four power Weaver. When he talked to me earlier in the day about replacing it with a fixed power scope, I was genuinely surprised. Younger shooters generally want optics powerful enough to spot nits at 1000 yards. He told me he just wanted a fixed scope so he wouldn't have to mess around with anything. Given that he will be lucky to get a shot over 150-200 yards around here, the fixed four is a sensible idea. Good choice!
He took the 3-12 Athlon off his 243 and got it ready to mount on my new MGM 7.62x54r barrel for the Encore. We cleaned up the barrel and cleaned out the scope mounting holes. I haven't been able to locate a Bushnell fixed 10 to put on this, so I will dial to 10 power and use it that way.
I wanted to show you how little room there is to mount the scope on the single piece DNZ/Game Reaper mount. I am going to final fit tomorrow to see if the approximate 1/2 inch of forward/backward movement will work.
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