So I got bored this morning, packed up the SKS, the P89, the Romy M-69, and the Mossy and took them out to the range.
Skipping over all the boring bits and getting to the meat 'n potatoes of the matter, here's the second-best grouping of the day, from the Mossberg 351CB.
First three went into the upper left cluster, the fourth was the wide flyer (not sure what happened there), and the rest made that nice little clump that you see there. It's a 15-shot group, by the way. Federal .22lr 36-grain copper-plated HP's, the bulk-pack stuff. (Not the Champion bulk pack, didn't shoot any of that today.) Shot at 25 yards with the Weaver up on 6x.
Overall, the Mossberg was real nice, except it had a real bad problem about jamming on the last round in the tube. Not sure what the deal is there; it seems like the bolt either didn't cycle far enough back or the plunger on the tube pinched the base of the round or something, but the round would get about halfway up into position to go into the chamber and then the bolt would catch it just behind the bullet, maybe 1/8th of an inch, and jam the rifle up good. It always did this on the last round, but only about 40% of the time. Could be because it was some dirt on the end of the feed ramp or because it wasn't lubed enough, not sure. Have to test it out when I go again Wednesday.
Other than that, it ran like a champ. The groups I shot with the CCI Mini-Mags seemed to open up a little more than the Federal stuff, which I thought was a little odd. Didn't save those targets though.
Real nice .22, and definitely a bargain at $119.
Skipping over all the boring bits and getting to the meat 'n potatoes of the matter, here's the second-best grouping of the day, from the Mossberg 351CB.
First three went into the upper left cluster, the fourth was the wide flyer (not sure what happened there), and the rest made that nice little clump that you see there. It's a 15-shot group, by the way. Federal .22lr 36-grain copper-plated HP's, the bulk-pack stuff. (Not the Champion bulk pack, didn't shoot any of that today.) Shot at 25 yards with the Weaver up on 6x.
Overall, the Mossberg was real nice, except it had a real bad problem about jamming on the last round in the tube. Not sure what the deal is there; it seems like the bolt either didn't cycle far enough back or the plunger on the tube pinched the base of the round or something, but the round would get about halfway up into position to go into the chamber and then the bolt would catch it just behind the bullet, maybe 1/8th of an inch, and jam the rifle up good. It always did this on the last round, but only about 40% of the time. Could be because it was some dirt on the end of the feed ramp or because it wasn't lubed enough, not sure. Have to test it out when I go again Wednesday.
Other than that, it ran like a champ. The groups I shot with the CCI Mini-Mags seemed to open up a little more than the Federal stuff, which I thought was a little odd. Didn't save those targets though.
Real nice .22, and definitely a bargain at $119.