Hi guys
So I was doing a ladder test with this Carl Gustav.
Noting the old toy is from... 1899, so a very early Carl Gustav, very very uncommon. The early ones were often produced by Mauser Oberndorf.
It used to be in an ugly green plastick stock for hunting
, but I managed to convince his dear owner (my in-law!) to put it back in the original configuration.
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The parameters of the ladder testing:
- scope: a cheap 3-9 Tasco
- trigger: Tymney
- temperature: 0 - freezing, was shooting with gloves.
- Distance: 100m
- Projectile: Hornady HPBT Match 140gn (was the Cleavers promo at $59/100! - yes I love Cleavers)
- OAL : 3.030 - not even trying to chase the land!
- Case: Igman - got them for nearly nothing, but a very annoying case, barely fits in the chamber despite FLS and trimming,
- Primer: Federal 210
- Powder; AR2209
- Increments: 41.5gn, 42gn, 42.5gn, 42.8gn, 43gn, 43.2gn, 43.5gn
- 4 shots in each group, at 100m
First time shooting this rifle in years.
Here below pictures of the 4-shots groups, i.e. in particular the 42gn, the 42.8gn and the 43gn
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I am just amazed by those old riflles.
This one is from 1899
And the last group of 4, the 43gn, is just 1.4cm wide. That's 0.5 MOA!!!
Which modern rifle with a comparable sporter barrel does clearly better?
And this reinforces the importance of doing the ladder test, as some of the powder loads were just really average, between 1 and 2 MOA.
Anyway, was just to share my admiration for the old ladies.
Next stage will be the 10 shot group on the reference target i use for all my rifles.
Have a good one!