This afternoon, the day moderated to about 60 degrees, up from the teens earlier this week, with a 6 mph wind quartering in on the range. The conditions gave me a chance to finish up changing this rifle over from NSA slugs back to JSB King Heavy 33.95 gr pellets. While the slugs would shoot with the pellets in have wind conditions, day in and day out, I never have been able to achieve or match the performance of pellets. For all practical purposes, all of my shooting is inside of 100 yards.
This rifle was originally purchased from Ken Hicks at SPAW in 2018. It has an Accu-Tac bipod and a Hawke Sidewinder 8-40x 60 Scope with ED glass sitting on top of FX picatinny no limit rings.
For the most part, it has been absolutely trouble free. I did send it back to Martin last fall to have him reseal it.
I started out cleaning the barrel and performing all of the other routine maintenance that I have described recently in other posts. I turned the hammer spring down as I had it set way to hot for the pellets, shooting the slugs. The results can be seen below. While the 51 yard group was acceptable (except for the one flyer), I thought the 81 yard group was pretty decent. Also, I shoot using scope clicks, and my calcs were dead on at the longer range - so somewhat gratifying.
This rifle is built like a tank - nothing I would want to carry in the woods, but for bench shooting is a solid platform that just performs day-in and day-out.
This rifle was originally purchased from Ken Hicks at SPAW in 2018. It has an Accu-Tac bipod and a Hawke Sidewinder 8-40x 60 Scope with ED glass sitting on top of FX picatinny no limit rings.
For the most part, it has been absolutely trouble free. I did send it back to Martin last fall to have him reseal it.
I started out cleaning the barrel and performing all of the other routine maintenance that I have described recently in other posts. I turned the hammer spring down as I had it set way to hot for the pellets, shooting the slugs. The results can be seen below. While the 51 yard group was acceptable (except for the one flyer), I thought the 81 yard group was pretty decent. Also, I shoot using scope clicks, and my calcs were dead on at the longer range - so somewhat gratifying.
This rifle is built like a tank - nothing I would want to carry in the woods, but for bench shooting is a solid platform that just performs day-in and day-out.
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