dmftoy1
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I picked up a $89 Mosin M44 because it was just too good of deal to pass up. I was really disappointed with my first outing as I could barely hold minute of berm with the thing and "Brown Bear" 185 grain bi-metal "stuff". I pulled one of the bullets and mic'd it and it was .308 at it's widest . . . .slugging my bore revealed about a .311 bore (maybe slightly bigger).
I started thinking on it and realized that I had a mold that I bought for my .303 Enfield (Lyman 314299) and it dropped bullets at about .313 from straight wheel weights. An afternoon at the pot and lubrisizer and I was in business. I loaded up 15 rounds in groups of 3 using 2400 (17,18,19). The first shot was so far down that I burned through about 10 of my rounds finding that I needed the sights set for 600 meters to be near the bullseye at 50 yards.
My last five rounds all went into an 1.22 though so I'm pretty tickled. It was 34 degree's and there was at least a 15 mph wind so I think with a warmer day and better concentration I can shoot some groups with this thing. The front sight seems abnormally high so I have to decide whether to shorten it or not to try and get the groups up into the bull. Here's my shotup target.
I started thinking on it and realized that I had a mold that I bought for my .303 Enfield (Lyman 314299) and it dropped bullets at about .313 from straight wheel weights. An afternoon at the pot and lubrisizer and I was in business. I loaded up 15 rounds in groups of 3 using 2400 (17,18,19). The first shot was so far down that I burned through about 10 of my rounds finding that I needed the sights set for 600 meters to be near the bullseye at 50 yards.
My last five rounds all went into an 1.22 though so I'm pretty tickled. It was 34 degree's and there was at least a 15 mph wind so I think with a warmer day and better concentration I can shoot some groups with this thing. The front sight seems abnormally high so I have to decide whether to shorten it or not to try and get the groups up into the bull. Here's my shotup target.