Forum | Now, she's done!

Ahh grasshopper, you're having the same problem I did.  One bullet going into the same hole.  Knowing the shot order, I can now see the distinct "holes" from the different shots.  But it's not easy….

And you're right, I do need to zero the rifle.  But I figured one thing at a time, with barrel break in coming first.

I do plan on smoking at least one deer with this rifle, and the squirrels are in severe trouble now.  120 grains of copper/lead at 2,990 feet per second is likely to do some serious harm….

And Nah, the neighbors won't mind a little noise…..

In a different post, I told about an old Mauser rifle that I used for the base of a new custom rifle, a .25-06.  I had it pretty much complete, with the exception of the addition of a custom trigger and shooting in the barrel.  Well, that has now happened.

I received the Trigger from Huber Concepts in Fond du Lac and yesterday, I installed it.  It easily installed as per the instructions and while I haven't gotten a trigger scale on it, I'm guessing the trigger breaks at around 1.5 – 2 pounds.  It feels really sweet.

So I decided to bore site the scope I had installed.  Pulling the bolt, I centered the bore on a post on the front porch and aligned the scope's crosshairs to the same point.  The gun was now ready to shoot.  When this was done, that led me to the barrel break in process.  Shoot one round, clean the barrel, shoot another round, clean the barrel again.  Repeat the process through ten shots.

I put a target on an old TV box and put it out to shoot at.  I shot the first round with the rifle sitting in my Lead Sled and the croshairs locked onto the center of the bullseye.  I fired a round and went to see where it hit.  Incredibly, it was only an inch low and 1/2 inch left of the center of the bullseye.  So I cleaned the rifle and fired it again.  I checked out the target and couldn't see any sign of a hit, so I walked down and looked.  Instead of one round hole, I had an oval hole; I shot almost to the same point of impact.  And so it went for the next nine rounds.

When I did my job right, the shots went one next to another.  However, I did have a couple of flyers where I must have jerked the trigger.

There's ten shots there, and I haven't even started accuracy testing or developing a specific handload to this particular rifle. 

This group was shot with 120 grain, Remington pointed soft-point CoreLokt factory loads!

And after looking at the completed rifle, I don't think I'll coat the barreled action with a color coat….