Anyone try Norinco 308 in their modern hunter?
- Thread starter eldarbo
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To each their own; Let me just clarify, i'm not asking whether or not it should be done, or am i asking for peoples thought/opinions on norinco ammo, just curious about MH owners experiences with the cartridge in that particular firearm, thanks.
onetwentyish
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Lol. Trade it off for something worth wearing out your barrel with.
My MH is a $6000+ rifle with an $1800 Proof CFW barrel, cant imagine wasting it with Bi-metal jacketed ammo or cheap Norc.
Get an M305 if you want to use it!
My MH is a $6000+ rifle with an $1800 Proof CFW barrel, cant imagine wasting it with Bi-metal jacketed ammo or cheap Norc.
Get an M305 if you want to use it!
I see no hostility. I see honest opinions. Well founded opinions, at that.
A match quality barrel has a limited accurate barrel life. Each time we fire a shot, the life is reduced by one shot. I estimate each shot costs me 20 cents in barrel life.
So each shot I fire had better be as good a shot as I can muster. By that I mean the best aimed shot I can do and the best accuracy ammo I can feed it.
I would not fire anything less than match grade ammo in an expensive match barrel.
gents i've already asked you to stay on topic it's extremely rude to hijack peoples threads, if you hate norinco go join that thread im curious about MH accuracy with norinco .308 thanks. The man with the 500 dollar gun who has fired 5000 rounds in practice, is far more deadly than the man with the 5000 dollar gun who's fired 500 rounds in practice; that's my philosophy HENCE why i'm asking the question, if i can get 1-1.5 moa during training with norc ammo i'm happy, that's what my savage gives me consistently but im after an accurate semi auto. thanks.
onetwentyish
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You try it and let us know! I cant wait to hear how your $4000 after taxes base model MH shoots terribly after running Norc!
You said it yourself, practice on a cheap gun with crap ammo. M305 with Norc, MH with Hornady or Federal GMM. Sounds reasonable to me.
You said it yourself, practice on a cheap gun with crap ammo. M305 with Norc, MH with Hornady or Federal GMM. Sounds reasonable to me.
Used it to warm up the barrel at start of day and end of day to blast clay at 200m out of my TRG.
Get 2MOA+ for first 3 shot (cold bore). Follow up 5 shot groups using hand load is .5-.75MOA.
Cheap ammo good for blasting clay (who doesn't luv reactive targets). Hopefully the copper washed/steel jacket is not excessively wearing out the barrel.
Can't remember if I chrono. Don't recall see any of the problems shown in the video but will take a closer look next time.
Get 2MOA+ for first 3 shot (cold bore). Follow up 5 shot groups using hand load is .5-.75MOA.
Cheap ammo good for blasting clay (who doesn't luv reactive targets). Hopefully the copper washed/steel jacket is not excessively wearing out the barrel.
Can't remember if I chrono. Don't recall see any of the problems shown in the video but will take a closer look next time.
Onetwentyish how many times do i have to say it, your speculation based off of zero experience relating to my question is NOT WANTED HERE. I'm sure you have more important things to do than bother me please do not reply any more. My M305s shoot 4 inch groups with norc ammo, my savage about 1 to 1 and a half inches...wanted to know if the MH is capable of the same, not you telling me which guns im allowed to shoot norinco out of - thanks.
There's an honest review right there.
I can't see using the MH for just surplus ammo only, but for testing and banging at steel targets why not?
Bi-Metal jackets won't wear out any barrel more than copper unless you shoot rapid fire and thousands of rounds with a hot barrel.
I've shot 4 crates of 7.62x39 corrosive surplus out of my test gun Rem 700 and the barrel is still good and accurate. My method is never letting the barrel get hot and cleaning it properly. YMMV
EHG that's wicked, always wondered about surplus x39 through a savage or remington in that calibre. There's alot of non sense out there people like to believe about there stuff being too good for cheap ammo, or believing somehow a machine that is intended to operate by its very nature under extreme conditions can be harmed by inexpensive ammunition. People need to shoot more and talk less. Experience is the only absolute.
Here's the test target I shot a few years ago after 4 crates. 10 shot group shooting Romanian surplus 1.720" @ 100yds.
I've come to a stop since then, but have started the 5th crate recently.
Now regarding the MH and surplus ammo. Surplus ammo generally has hard primers so you may get light strikes. Increasing hammer spring works, but then it also increases trigger weight. My prediction is grouping from 2" to 4" groups with Norc surplus in the MH.
I'm not telling anyone what they can shoot in their guns, that's their call. I don't own one so cannot speak for it.
I've come to a stop since then, but have started the 5th crate recently.
Now regarding the MH and surplus ammo. Surplus ammo generally has hard primers so you may get light strikes. Increasing hammer spring works, but then it also increases trigger weight. My prediction is grouping from 2" to 4" groups with Norc surplus in the MH.
I'm not telling anyone what they can shoot in their guns, that's their call. I don't own one so cannot speak for it.
So i went and did some grouping with the norinco steel cased .308 through my modern hunter, Vortex Viper hs t 4-16. No bipod, resting off of mag. 117m says range finder. Gun did not explode. Average grouping was 1 moa such as in pic 2. Worst group was 2 inches, that was one out of 10, 3 shot groups. Perfectly acceptable and good training.
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