I became a shooter again today with the first shoot on my new licence During a target chance I struck up a conversation with the bloke next door, who just happened to have what looked like a new Marlin. With barely concealed curiosity, I asked him its age and it turned out to be new! Well, you know what they say about those things but this bloke was very happy with his but There's More. He was so proud of his rifle that he offered me a shot Was I up for it? Was I ever, especially since I had spotted the calibre on his ammo packet hehehe Top bloke, eh and his gun was pretty nice too and not too hard on the shoulder either. He was using lead bullet PMC/PPU or something or other so maybe that explains that but I told my wife when I got home that a bloke had let me fire his cannon
But what is this doing in a target shooting forum? Well, I got to try out the CZ at 50 yards with a 36X Weaver instead of the formerly blurry Leupold and things went very well. Would you believe that Bushman grouped in 9/16" with a flier? The Remington High Velocity was so old and decrepit that the cases were coroded Never seen anything like it The real surprise was the vertical dispersion; 3/8". I was ignoring wind, BTW as I had no indicators.
Unfortunately a few things went wrong. I forgot the cleaning gear so there was no removing fouling from the previous ammo or anything religious like that so neither the CZ nor the Marlin got a proper test. I was glad I only brought two rifles. Three would have been too many. As it was I shot all day[nearly ] with the two I had.
Well, that might do me. It's been a big day Seeya next time.