First shoot with new Anschutz 1416 D HB

[Lorgar]

I took my new baby out into the forest yesterday morning to break her in

Picked up my first 22LR, an Anschutz 1416 D HB with the beavertail stock.

Anschutz 1416 D HB

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(Not a great pic sorry, crappy phone.)

First impressions are good. The trigger was quite heavy but easily adjustable with a single screw, have taken that back and it's nice and light now.

There was a bit of trigger creep from the factory setting, but again it's adjustable with a turn of a screw. Still need to do it but shouldn't be an issue.

Here's a group.

22LR group

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Around the '9' on the target is 5 shots. Directly above the '9' is a 4 shots measuring 0.37" shot with RWS Club ammo. Not bad...

I'm hoping I can tighten this down a bit further too. Shooting on the day with a virgin barrel, shots 3 kinds of ammo with different coatings too and it was a scorcher where I was shooting with a bit of wind.

Should get down to 1/4 of an inch with the right ammo I think.



Update: Some proper 5 and 10 shot groups here after finding the right ammo for it - Anschütz 1416D range report

[heeple]

You sure you're scope is long enough?

[Boatman]

Tap to the brain there too in case the first 5 shots didn't finish it off?

[Lorgar]

You sure you're scope is long enough?

You should see it with the sun shade on... It's about 4" longer than the stock

I'll post another pic with it on when I get the chance.

[Grated]

Directly above the '9' is a 4 shots measuring 0.37" shot with RWS Club ammo. Not bad...

Not bad? That's great for straight out of the box.

Grats on the new rifle.

[sneaker]

Just out of curiosity, why aim for the 9?

You could have got yourself 10 points

[flap]

Nice work.

I recently got my first 22 as well. You're shooting better than me

[tucked]

Nice Lorgar.

Just in time for Christmas

Still expecting better than that with other ammo, hey. What's going to shoot better than .37" you reckon?

[Lorgar]

Still expecting better than that with other ammo, hey. What's going to shoot better than .37" you reckon?

I picked up 9 different boxes of 22LR ammo today to test next week, so we'll find out soon enough

That, and some trigger work will help with accuracy.

Like I said in the original post the trigger was quite heavy and there was a lot of creep. I spent this afternoon tuning the trigger and now it's great.

Now it has zero trigger creep, a very clean break and very light pull weight.

In retrospect, the trigger settings from the factory were actually pretty terrible, I didn't realise how bad they were until I found what the rifle was capable of. With the new trigger settings I'm confident I'll do better still.

[halberg]

There are going to be plenty of dead bunnies with that accuracy.

Google a bit of a more flattering picture here too:



That's one smart looking rifle.

[Bourt]

Looks like a pretty decent size/weight?

Can you free aim that thing comfortably or strictly bench?

[Press]

Tap to the brain there too in case the first 5 shots didn't finish it off?

I wondered about that. It would have been a hell of a flyer if not deliberate

[Noisydad]

Once you've found your rifle's favourite food go out and buy 3 or 4 bricks of it so you'll have the same batch of the same ammo to maintain consistency.
Anschutz gear is good stuff! You'll probably keep it forever! Kinda wish I'd bought dads Anschutz 22mag off him when he sold up coz at 40 years old that rifle was still a tack driver.

[Hatter]

Once you've found your rifle's favourite food go out and buy 3 or 4 bricks of it so you'll have the same batch of the same ammo to maintain consistency.

Gotta love that 22 ammo.

$5 for 50 rounds. $8-9 if you buy the "expensive" stuff

Beats putting 200 centre fire rounds out in a day at the range at $1 a pop