Picked up a significant infection in my left fore arm a couple weeks ago which laid me up a bit. It's healing but it'll take a while to fill in the hole I think. I got a few hundred rounds of .303 loaded up but only did some .22LR practice. Today I managed to get out despite the high winds and fire some of the Outer Edge bullets in 7mm-08, and put some groups on paper with the M1891/30 Mosin and M39 Finn. A guy on the Mosin Nagant group on Facebook decided he wanted to start a fun online competition shoot for milsurps so I got out and shot a target for him to maybe entice some others to play along
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I fired two sighters on another target to determine what my hold was. Shooting unsupported on my elbows from a bench at 50yd it was grouping about 90mm high, so I held halfway up the white below the black centre and put all five into the black. Three of them made a single hole and overall I was very happy with the resulting 2.050" group. I'm sure I could tighten it up a bit if I'd done some practice beforehand, and even more if I'd printed ten targets and simply picked the best group, but I prefer a genuine effort. Velocity averaged 2427fps with 40.5gn of AR2206H behind some old locally-made Super 173gn flat base soft-points from the 1970's. I had hoped to shoot it without the EyePal but couldn't see the front sight at all unfortunately. Recoil was sufficient to scrape skin off both elbows on the well-weathered Yellow-Tongue flooring bench.
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I also took the M39 Finn though I haven't used this 173gn ammo in it and it has the worst trigger of any rifle I can ever recall. The "group" was about 200mm across at 50yd