Last weekend's outing with a 1941 Long Branch No.4 Mk.1

[spinecracker]

Time for a range report. Because of tired eyes, I decided to scope my 1941 Long Branch No.4 Mk.1. I went with the Fulton's steel "no-gunsmithing" mount ($200 from BDL Ltd. - expensive, but worth it - steady as a rock). The scope is a very cheap (but surprisingly good) Tasco Pronghorn 4-9x32. Here goes for details:

Weather during shoot was no wind, 90 degrees F, excellent visibility, no haze. Shooting was performed seated using a bag front rest. Ammo was Sierra 174gr .311 GPBT, 38.3gr Varget, Prvi brass and CCI large rifle primers. Typical 5-round grouping at 100 yards was 1" or better (best was 0.75"). Last 3 rounds at 200 yards made a 1" grouping. I did try out the Hornady .312 174gr BTHP too, which was about the same at 100 yards, but things opened out slightly at 200 yards.

This photo was taken of the 100 yard target after the first series of 5 rounds. The right hand most hole is actually 2 holes, but it is very hard to make out. The left upper hole was my flincher in this series of 5:



This is the rifle:

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[Badger]

Great shooting ...

Thanks for posting the pics ...

Regards,
Doug

[spinecracker]

Thanks, Badger. I must admit that it is nice to have a restful daty at the range and outshoot the bugger next to you who is using a snazzy hunting rifle with all the trimmings....

[muffett.2008]

So much for old tired eyes, scope or no scope.

[spinecracker]

Got to the range again (first time since the beginning of September - grrr), and tried out my trusty Long Branch at 100 yards, with everything the same as the last time. I had taken the scope and mount off to try on another rifle, so I had to rezero the rifle. The lowest hole was my sighting round after boresighting, the following 5 rounds were after adjusting the scope (6 holes total on the target):



And to think I had tried to sell this rifle - what was I thinking???

[jmoore]

Looks like you might need to print off a target from bigduke6's Milsurp Competition thread/sticky and do an entry!

Daaang!

[spinecracker]

Jmoore, if I could shoot like that without the scope, then I would have lol.

[jmoore]

There's a classification for scoped-up rifles. So that's no excuse! I've been shooting non-milsurp handguns and M1As lately, so have had nothing new to enter. Your rifle shoots better than all but maybe one of my No.4 rifles.

[bigduke6]

Spinecracker next time as jmore says shoot a target to within the size on milsurp comp

[spinecracker]

Already got it printed up