My late Father in laws old rifle. I believe when I had looked up the serial number yrs ago, it's a 1969 model.
Posted about this rifle numerous times. Shoots everything from 130's to 180's that I've tried in it. Most bullet weights will get you around 1/2" MOA in this rifle. Easy to load for.
Ugly as a mud fence really as far as modern rifles go, and I've left it like my Father in law had it set up. Hooded front sight, see thru high rise mounts, and a cheap Simmons 3-9, 8 point scope on it.
Lack of looks and all, can't beat it with a stick. Just shoots.
So an older gent getting out of hunting, this past week gave me gobs of once fired 30-06 factory brass in the boxes..... he always shot factory loads, but he also gave me 4 boxes of reloaded rounds.
Some yrs back he had a co-worker offer to reload some 30-06 for him. He always shot 180 gr RN and this guy loaded him up 4 boxes. He went through about 1/2 of 1 box and had several mis-fires and never shot any of the rest.
Lots of them had raised primers not properly seated. Pulled the bullets, left in the original primers. Finished seating the primers. Cleaned the outside of the cases up wiping them down with rubbing alcohol, then used red scotch brite to clean up the shoulder area. Resized them leaving in the primer and bumping the shoulders back enough to chamber in this rifle.
I believe the bullets are the same Hornady 180 gr RN that I have a couple other boxes of, don't know for sure, nothing was marked on these reload boxes. Loaded 3 up in those cases and primers with IMR 4350 at .060 off the lands. Wanted to see how the primers/cases/bullets did.
Nice little 1/2" group. Gotta love a sleeper rifle that always shoots better than it looks. :grin:
Posted about this rifle numerous times. Shoots everything from 130's to 180's that I've tried in it. Most bullet weights will get you around 1/2" MOA in this rifle. Easy to load for.
Ugly as a mud fence really as far as modern rifles go, and I've left it like my Father in law had it set up. Hooded front sight, see thru high rise mounts, and a cheap Simmons 3-9, 8 point scope on it.
Lack of looks and all, can't beat it with a stick. Just shoots.
So an older gent getting out of hunting, this past week gave me gobs of once fired 30-06 factory brass in the boxes..... he always shot factory loads, but he also gave me 4 boxes of reloaded rounds.
Some yrs back he had a co-worker offer to reload some 30-06 for him. He always shot 180 gr RN and this guy loaded him up 4 boxes. He went through about 1/2 of 1 box and had several mis-fires and never shot any of the rest.
Lots of them had raised primers not properly seated. Pulled the bullets, left in the original primers. Finished seating the primers. Cleaned the outside of the cases up wiping them down with rubbing alcohol, then used red scotch brite to clean up the shoulder area. Resized them leaving in the primer and bumping the shoulders back enough to chamber in this rifle.
I believe the bullets are the same Hornady 180 gr RN that I have a couple other boxes of, don't know for sure, nothing was marked on these reload boxes. Loaded 3 up in those cases and primers with IMR 4350 at .060 off the lands. Wanted to see how the primers/cases/bullets did.
Nice little 1/2" group. Gotta love a sleeper rifle that always shoots better than it looks. :grin:
