What did you do at the range today?

[Q_Sertorius]

I recently got my Tikka M695 and Sauer 100 9.3x62s cut down to 18”.

Today, I took the them to the range and abused myself through almost two boxes of Hornady 286-grain factory seconds.

The ammo is straight garbage. Inconsistent seating depths, two duds, dents, wild flyers out of nowhere. Some of the bullets seem to be so deep they appear to create some compressed loads. I definitely got pressure signs from a couple of the shots. But I got the two rifles sighted in and it was a productive day.

I forgot my chronograph, so I decided not to shoot any of the Prvi Partisan ammo. I’ll probably go back tomorrow with the chronograph and shoot a bit more.

This is basically exactly how Sauer shot before I had it cut down from 22” to 18”. Always a stack of bullets right on top of each other with a random flyer. I’m very curious to see what I can do with proper ammunition. This was the best group, but the other was quite good.

The Tikka shot pretty well too. My best group with it was 2.1” for 10 shots. I attribute this to a couple of extra flyers in its group. It weighs a pound more and is a lot more pleasant to shoot than the Sauer.

At the moment, however, it is having ejection problems due to brass hitting the windage knob. I think that is funny, because I was just saying I haven’t had those problems before… and the windage knob on the 1-6x isn’t nearly as large as on the 6x42. I don’t know whether the best solution is to get medium rings or try shifting the scope a bit.

The .375 caliber AB Raptor 10 was very nice as well. With the big bore, the rifle still sounds pretty loud, but the cranium-crushing blast is totally gone and the sound is muffled. Shortening the barrels to 18” makes the 7” of suppressor a lot more manageable.

When I go back with the chronograph, I will see how much velocity I lost.

In between sets, I shot my normal offhand and seated unsupported routine with the T1X.

After finishing up on the rifle range, I took my P365 over to the steel range and shot some of the game targets. That was good fun and I felt pretty good about my shooting. From now on, I’m going to make that a normal part of my range routine.

 

[justinspicher]

Finally got back out to the range. Shot about 60-65 rounds through pistol. Worked heavily on my drawing from concealed.

 

[Banana_Horn]

Verified zero on one rifle after swapping out rings. As well as some truing on data for that set up out to 1K.

As well as got to try out my new Tikka 6.5 PRC with NX8. Gotta say I’m really digging this gun and glad I went with it over the 300wsm I was considering. Also I really like the NX8.
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Sighting in, prc 2 shots, then adjusted down and left, 2 more shots, factory 147 Hornady shot great out of this gun. Almost makes me not want to reload for it.

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Then immediately took it out to 1100 and made a 3rd round impact. Grossly underestimated the wind, lol.

Is that a Zenith K suppressor? How do you like it?

 

[Shraggs]

I have been having some inaccuracy issues with my Tikka T3X in .243, 20” 1:8” twist OEM barrel, factory threaded 5/8x24. I currently have 150 rounds through it.

My best groups have all been around 1.6”, whether with Hornady American Whitetail 100-grain or hand loaded 107-grain TMKs.

This morning, I tightened the action from 45 to 60. It made no apparent difference.

One of the Hornady 100-grain groups from today:

The second group was the same size. The factory ammo seems pretty consistent.

Older groups with the same ammo shot essentially the same size groups.

Two groups with the 107-grain TMKs.

If [mention]B_Reynolds_AK [/mention] or anyone else has suggestions, I am all ears. Worth taking it apart and putting it back together again? Try a different scope? Accept it as rifle with a 1.6” group? I know it doesn’t need to be more accurate for how and where I hunt, but it annoys me that I can’t get better with it.

Edit - I don’t recall adjusting the windage, but it is interesting that in this group from last Tuesday, it was hitting slightly to the right. I need to check whether I adjusted it.

If I didn’t adjust it after this group (and I remember specifically thinking I would not touch the elevation because I am just going to use that ammo up), then if it is wandering left, that could be a scope or mount issue?

Edit #2 - nope, checked the DOPE and the scope. I definitely made the correction for the windage.

Edit #3 - the barrel seems to have sped up by about 50 FPS since the first session (as expected ).

I don’t recall your rate of fire but maybe mirage even with that cover. First half of your groups are pretty good. In your heat maybe try waterboarding the barrel, or battery fan over the suppressor or deliberately slow fire and see.

I wear glasses, but I do find my 3-15 is not as forgiving as the 3-9 from eye box and parallax.

 

[Q_Sertorius]

I don’t recall your rate of fire but maybe mirage even with that cover. First half of your groups are pretty good. In your heat maybe try waterboarding the barrel, or battery fan over the suppressor or deliberately slow fire and see.

I wear glasses, but I do find my 3-15 is not as forgiving as the 3-9 from eye box and parallax.

Thanks for the suggestion, but I have resolved those issues since I started loading my ammo to 2.91” instead of 2.82”. I do agree that mirage could have played a bit of a role, but I saw an immediate improvement in group size once I started loading longer COAL.

 

[Matt5266]

Went and shot the 107 tmk again today. Same load and about same size group. Just decided to role with it for now. Was 15 out of 20 on steel at 610 yards. Wind was partially a factor.