Muzzle Eats a M2 Round

[painter777]

Last Monday morning after coffee I headed over to my local Rifle club.
Started out running 10 10rd mags through my wife's new Walther P22 in .22 longs.
Ran in to a guy with a carbine who was just getting ready to load up when I noticed he had a cracked bolt. I posted about this: N14 bolt. I was able to get him going with a spare bolt I had and went my own way.
Took out A S'G' with Blue Sky BA barrel.
Using my own reloads of 110 gr FMJ loaded with WRA Primers and 15.0 296.
I ran 1 mag at a paper plate target that was left hanging by someone.
Took a couple clicks on the windage to get close
Pictured below is the beater:





Might add that it has NOT been counter bored.
This first set of targets were at 25 yrds.
All of these were shot benched on a front sand bag rest.
I had one of those shaky mornings, hard time calming down plus couldn't settle my breathing down. I did know when releasing the trigger right away a few times that I'd pulled it off target. You know the feeling? These targets are 8" outer circle with a 2" Bulls Eye.




Using this board as an example of my sight picture and hold:



Then moved down to the 50 yrd set up. Had picked my table and was all set up, before going down and pinning up my target. After doing so I could see I had myself off to a angle but just went for it instead of moving everything over. Same deal, rested on a sand bag. Still an 8" outer circle but now with a 3" Bulls Eye.




This board pretty much shows my hold and sight picture for the first 2. On the 3rd one (left) I dropped my hold to try to line up right on the black, but honestly just tried to see a little more orange sitting on the sight blade. It was a struggle trying to see orange from 50 for me. I'd use the spotting scope after a full mag was spent. I can feel needing a new RX for these getting older eyes. And I do believe that I'll have to give De-Caf a try.
Overall a nice morning, went home knowing what I did wrong with what was available to me. I believe I could get her to tighten up some after I checkout the barrel hang and recoil plate bite. Also makes one wonder if Cast Lead might be the way to go for the ole gal ??

Bottom Line; get out there guys, we sure aren't getting any younger.

Cheers
Charlie-Painter777

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