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What firearm surprised you as to the accuracy?
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Mine was my Mosin-Nagant with scope. 12" X 12" plate at 100 yards!!
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My Remington 700. I had trouble for the longest time getting tight groups with it. Thought I just got a bad one. Then I replaced the scope on it and found out it's a tack driver.
And fiery auto crashes
Some will die in hot pursuit
While sifting through my ashes
Some will fall in love with life
And drink it from a fountain
That is pouring like an avalanche
Coming down the mountain
Darn near any old Savage.
Barrett M95.
Sighted it in at home with a bore sight.
First round at 100 yards was a little high and right of bullseye. Appx. 1" high and 1" right if I remember correctly.
Placed the rifle with scope on bullseye and move crosshairs to point of impact.
Second round dead center - +/- 1/8".
Third round missed paper? - no visible impact.
Stopped and when range went cold went out and discovered the third round had entered the hole in the bullseye approximately 1/8" high (slight oval hole).
Brad Steele
My first Ruger. A Mark 1 back around 1970. If I could get a good enough rest it was almost like a 22 rifle. It blew me away. I have been a Ruger fan ever since!!
Mossberg Patriot. One of the most accurate in my bunch.
Hi-Point .380. Say what you will about them, but that thing was perfectly reliable and crazy accurate. Had a lot of fun shooting old golf balls with it. Only let it go because a fella offered to trade me an NIB H&R 676 22/22mag for it. That was too good to pass up.
Most any short barreled defensive shotgun loaded with buckshot. Read an article a few years back about it, so a few buddies and I tried it. Sure enough, lucky to hit a milk jug with more than 2 pellets at 20 yards.
Savage 114 in 300 RUM. 5/8" groups at 100 yds with 150 grain Scirocco. Death ray on whitetail.
High Point 9mm
Heritage Rough Rider
AR 15 300 hammer assembled out of left over parts except for the Wilson barrel
This one.
It started out as a project for someone else who backed out on the deal after I had the metal work done and a good half of the stock work completed. Decided to finish it for myself.
The plan had been to send the action, from scope rings to floor plate, to Bob (Bob is all I can remember, he's since passed so that's moot) over in Mo. for color case hardening. Once I had the AcraGlass done and final coat of finish on the wood I got to thinking about the risk of slight warpage to the receiver during reheat treating so I assembled it with metal in the white and took it to the range after bore sighting. The spotting scope showed the first was 1" left and 1 1/2" high and the third was left by a tiny fraction. The second was nowhere to be seen. Thinking I had pulled the second wild I put one more down the pipe that almost broke the third hole at twelve o'clock. When I walked down to pull the target you could have pushed me over with a feather. That hole from the first shot was less than a 1/16" out of round. That shot all ideas of color case hardening in the butt.
A Remington 870 with rifled slug barrel. It will shot 3 shot groups, all touching at 75 yards when I do my part..
My Thompson/Center Compass 6.5 CM that I won in a raffle. It came with a Vortex 4-12X40. I shoots Hornady 143 gr ELDX in dime sized groups at 125 yds consistently. No other brand/bullet comes close to it, so I stocked up on them. Six bucks and 3 does with one shot kills so far. Not bad for a $10 rifle!
Browning xbolt in 308. First ammo tried in it was hornady sst 150 grain. Three shots clustered in a space less than a dime at 100 yards . 200 yards grew to about a quarter Went back to the gun store and bought 3 more boxes of the same lot number . I knew it was fruitless to waste time trying to handload something better .
Savage bolt action .22LR. Deadly accurate with just about any ammunition. I mean 3/4-inch groups at 100 yards out of the box.
T.C. Cherokee .36 cal.
Some of them Savages and I do not like Savage. 8-10 lbs trigger pull, plastic trigger guard might break or just fall off. If you can stay on target and send one down the barrel without jerking or the trigger don't break some are accurate.
I've seen some of the H&R 50 cal ugly $100 black powder guns shoott better groups than High dollar pretty black powder guns. Also seen a ugly 22-250 H&R shoot my reloads as one holers at 100 yards and not even really bearing down to stay on target. This ugly thing proved that I can shoot good groups if a rifle will just let me.
Made my nice looking 22-250 Winchester and Remington look shameful with their 1/2 inch groups.
S&W Victory, the newest one in .22. Puts them in a dime at 10 yards. I can't shoot that well otherwise.
Bersa Thunder .380. My brother in law brought one over to shoot and I loved the accuracy so I bought it.
Norinco JW-7 22 Rifle. Chinese Army 22 Training rifle. Butt ugly.Heck of a paper puncher.
A copy of the old BRNO Number 1.
Will almost out shoot my BRNO's and new CZ 452's 22 rifles.
An Encore Barrel that started life as a 22 Hornet. I hand reamed it to chamber the 22BR. Over 4,000 FPS and shoots 52-53 grain match bullets consistently under 1/2" at 100 yards.
My Japanese 7.7 ,and my Remington 700 CDL Anniversary edition 257 Roberts. Both are tack drivers.
what is the rifle?
The action came from an FN 98 Mauser, 1930 Greek IIRC. Barrel is a Midway short chambered pre-thread chambered for 7x57. Trigger is a Timney feather weight. Can't for the life of me recall which safety I used. The 1/4 sawn claro walnut was a blank I sourced from Cecil Fredi in Vegas. The scope is the one that convinced me Nikon made Good budget scopes. It's a 4x40 Monarch UCC mounted in Leupold bases. I wish I could say the brown is rust brown, but the recipe I had been given proved a fruitless effort, so I relented and used Mark Lee Express Brown after blasting with Brownells 270+ media. And now down to the confession. I bleened up on the Permalyn stock finish. I wanted a nice shiny finish, but when I took it out of the rotisserie dry box it had a very fine pebbled finish. I had put Permalyn finish in my airbrush instead of the much thinner sealer. I liked it so much I just left it.
Yes sir, mine does the same. Use the buckhammer slugs
I have this Springfield mdl. 1922 with open sights/ peep sights that still amazes me every time I brake it out and shoot it. I have others that are more accurate, but they are scoped. Haven’t decided which one to be buried with yet, I was told there was good squirrel hunting on the other side.
Mini 14 Ranch Rifle. I took it out to the farm and proved y’all wrong…it could hit the broad side of a barn!
H&R Ultra Slug Hunter. When I ordered it from Walmart years ago, it was because it was the cheapest rifled slug option for me. Threw a Limbsaver and a Bushnell 6” eye relief scope on it, and it will shoot as good as or better than most rifles at 100 yds. I have a small stash of old Remington Buckhammer slugs, which it loves, that I hope will last a while yet.
Now, if only the thing didn’t weigh 16 lbs. Hahaha! 😁
CVA 300BO Scout
Dropped a scope on then threw together 20 hand loads and was in the black at 25 yards-a few clicks for adjustment and was inside 1" at 50 & 100 yards within 10 shots
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Remington 541S with CCI Stingers at 75 yards with fixed Redfield 10x could shoot acorns off your head -:)
I would like to see that.....BUT I am not volunteering my head as a target holder 😜
My .17 Savage rifle is also a tack driver, but that is kinda no surprise.
Daisy 1894 BB gun that I carried with the same regularity as wearing pants. I used it to shoot English sparrows out of the top of our grainery, and Midnight, my black tomcat would catch most before they hit the ground. If I missed, he would turn and give me the stink eye. Once got chewed out by the neighboring ranch manager who thought it was a "thutty - thutty" endangering the ranch's high dollar Santa Gertrudis cows.
As a kid, I had the same BB gun........until the lever snapped at the trigger guard. And.......as a kid.....I globbed a bunch of JB Weld on it. It worked......for a little while. Then I wrapped a lot of duct tape on what was left of the trigger guard........and that got me through the rest of that Summer. My grandmother either sold it in one of her garage sales, or threw it away, before the next Christmas.
Fast forward about 50 years........and I bought another one.......NIB......on GunBroker.
Also, several years ago I bought a Sears .22 single shot from a friend. I put a Bushnell 4x scope on it and have killed countless squirrels and rabbits with it using Speer .22 short hollow points. Out to 40 yards, it will put all shots touching from a rest.
S&W M&P 15 22 rifle
Pistol would have to be between a Star PD and a Glock 30SF.
Rifle its hard to say but I think a M-4 Carbine I had in Iraq was really a great shooting gun and much more accurate they they get credit for.
A Browning A-Bolt in 270 Winchester. Couldn't hit a barn from the inside until I bought a decent scope. I wasted a bunch of money on a Simmons then bought a Burris scope. The gun shot a half-minute of angle after that.