Ammo for L42A1 and L39

[MJ1]

I don't have the luxury or access to RG so I have used this one load with the 168g SMK for over ten years. It works for me and I have used it to 600 meters with good results. I can find nothing wrong with the SMK especially on the cold shots. Unless Brain has found a boxcar full of RG hidden in California he is beyond help and should look to his load books. I have three .50 cal tins of RG in those nice plastic boxes but it's easier for me to use what I can find in Ca.

This won't help Brain it just works for me.

...........MJ..............

[No4Mk1(T)]

I don't have the luxury or access to RG so I have used this one load with the 168g SMK for over ten years. It works for me and I have used it to 600 meters with good results. I can find nothing wrong with the SMK especially on the cold shots. Unless Brain has found a boxcar full of RG hidden in California he is beyond help and should look to his load books. I have three .50 cal tins of RG in those nice plastic boxes but it's easier for me to use what I can find in Ca.

This won't help Brain it just works for me.

...........MJ..............

That is some very nice shooting sir!!!!! I think I may try some SMK's in my CAL conversion.

[MJ1]

Give it a go, can't hurt and may surprise you.

[Peter Laidler]

After we'd overhauled No4T's and L42's, we'd occasionally send the accuracy target or a diagramme of it back to the user. We'd do this because while we'd certify it for function and accuracy, we didn't shoot it for zero. As a result, the paperwork had a sticky label on it to the effect that '...SNIPER RIFLE. Zeroing is the responsibility of the end user/sniper'

Looking at those targets, I'd LOVED to have sent one back to the sniper saying that '....we cannot guarantee the accuract or zero of this rifle' and see what he said when he saw them! FANTASTIC shooting by a grand old lady.

I'm just going to take those pics up to the sniper div. now and pass them around the two classes and ask that anyone who gets a better group than that with the L115, come over and see us........................

[MJ1]

Don't tell them the shooter is 63 and wears thick glasses. LOL Or that these are 25 yard pistol targets.

[Peter Laidler]

Just as a matter of interest, the picture is now on the students notice board. And no one has got a better group either! Incidentally, a couple of the class thought the picture of the rifles on the firing point were being fired out to sea. Presumably because the background looked like a bit of a rough sea! Hopefully shootin' at pirates.......................

[DanL96a1]

Excellent shooting MJ1 and the rifle looks as good as it shoots, I was wondering how many shots were fired in to the targets? It looks as though the SMK 168gr dose the job!!

[SCPX]

Just to add another option, while I prefer Federal GM 168 MKs, lately I have been using Remington Premier Match with the Sierra 168 grain HPBT match projectile and the results mirror the photos above. Generally around a half minute at 100 yards. Its a few bucks cheaper but my L42A1 seems to really like it.

[KIMBO65]

Hi, I Reload My 7.62mm With 46 Grains Vit N140/vectan Sp7 & 145 Grain Privi Fmj Heads. Shoots V - Bulls @ 1000yds

[jmoore]

I've run scads of 175, 168, 155, 150gr Sierra HPBT MKs as well as 150gr Nosler ballistic tips and a "wee" bit of Radway Green 147 (black dot) through L42a1's since 1995 or so w/ no ill affect. (Well, probably some throat erosion- but they had some anyways.) Mostly run 150NBT's and 155 Sierras now, mostly just to try to keep the numbers on the scope's elevating turret reasonably close to "theory".
The one rifle has been drama free all these years, another (back in a friend's hands now) needed the front pad sweated back on and new screws installed. Must have been the horrooorible 7.62x51 that knocked it loose!