So I like to drown my rifles in oil.
Maybe it is because when I fire the first few rounds, the great big misty cloud of oil spray gives me a sense of accomplishment.
So I take my DA556 twenty inch ribbed for pleasure rifle and my T97 red headed step child to the range.
All iron sighted.
All ammo was 62gr Tula FMJ steel cased.
DA556
On the DA556 I used those Canadian made beowolf mags with ten rounds each.
Needless to say I fire it with all the speed of some one re-enacting a scene from Pork Chop Hill.
I like to get into a timing rythm when I shoot. Maybe Motorhead is not the best soundtrack to time your fire along with?
After about eighty rounds, I get a stoppage due to a casing stuck in the chamber.
So unload and use a cleaning rod to tap it back.
Claw marks on the casing are no different than all the properly extracted and ejected casings???
So, I figure it is my oily habits and keep going.
It happens again three more times sporadically between working normally.
On the last time I realize that, "Wow, that cleaning rod has picked up enough heat to not want to touch it".
So set it aside, let it cool, and come back later.
Later put another seventy rounds through it at a far calmer rate, everything works fine.
Results
Dry off excess oil
Take my blood pressure meds before I decide that my rate of fire should match an MG42
Near 1.5 moa despite speed and ugly furniture
I suspect it was mostly to due with obturation.
The casing expanded to fit to the oily chamber walls and stuck.
Extractor claw marks match the normally extracted and ejected rounds compared to the stuck ones.
Considering that it worked later when cooled off, and probably fried a touch more out too.
I understand that steel case is not supposed to expand like brass does, so oily habits are the chief suspect.
On to the red headed step child.
T97 (with irons as it came)
Ten round LAR mags of more Tula 62gr.
Same bad habits of oil and speed here.
This seemed to tolerate the abuse a touch better.
One case of one casing stuck somewhere near the eighty round mark.
Give it a minute to become cool enough to pick back up and calmly continue for another eighty rounds at a more reasonable rate.
Results
Fire it at a rate as if you had to carry the ammo on your back all day. Slow down.
A two inch ragged hole after a one hundred round group!
Accurate, simple, light, but the mag release well somebody needs to get put up against the wall when the revolution begins.
As far as accuarcy, a whole lot of people claim that these things are in the triple digit range of moa.
I seriously differ. Two down to 1.5 moa is possible as I have found, and I have some serious limitations as a shooter. (as my doctors and restraining orders will testify)
It was good to get out and make casings.
Today was more therapeutic than practice.
Maybe it is because when I fire the first few rounds, the great big misty cloud of oil spray gives me a sense of accomplishment.
So I take my DA556 twenty inch ribbed for pleasure rifle and my T97 red headed step child to the range.
All iron sighted.
All ammo was 62gr Tula FMJ steel cased.
DA556
On the DA556 I used those Canadian made beowolf mags with ten rounds each.
Needless to say I fire it with all the speed of some one re-enacting a scene from Pork Chop Hill.
I like to get into a timing rythm when I shoot. Maybe Motorhead is not the best soundtrack to time your fire along with?
After about eighty rounds, I get a stoppage due to a casing stuck in the chamber.
So unload and use a cleaning rod to tap it back.
Claw marks on the casing are no different than all the properly extracted and ejected casings???
So, I figure it is my oily habits and keep going.
It happens again three more times sporadically between working normally.
On the last time I realize that, "Wow, that cleaning rod has picked up enough heat to not want to touch it".
So set it aside, let it cool, and come back later.
Later put another seventy rounds through it at a far calmer rate, everything works fine.
Results
Dry off excess oil
Take my blood pressure meds before I decide that my rate of fire should match an MG42
Near 1.5 moa despite speed and ugly furniture
I suspect it was mostly to due with obturation.
The casing expanded to fit to the oily chamber walls and stuck.
Extractor claw marks match the normally extracted and ejected rounds compared to the stuck ones.
Considering that it worked later when cooled off, and probably fried a touch more out too.
I understand that steel case is not supposed to expand like brass does, so oily habits are the chief suspect.
On to the red headed step child.
T97 (with irons as it came)
Ten round LAR mags of more Tula 62gr.
Same bad habits of oil and speed here.
This seemed to tolerate the abuse a touch better.
One case of one casing stuck somewhere near the eighty round mark.
Give it a minute to become cool enough to pick back up and calmly continue for another eighty rounds at a more reasonable rate.
Results
Fire it at a rate as if you had to carry the ammo on your back all day. Slow down.
A two inch ragged hole after a one hundred round group!
Accurate, simple, light, but the mag release well somebody needs to get put up against the wall when the revolution begins.
As far as accuarcy, a whole lot of people claim that these things are in the triple digit range of moa.
I seriously differ. Two down to 1.5 moa is possible as I have found, and I have some serious limitations as a shooter. (as my doctors and restraining orders will testify)
It was good to get out and make casings.
Today was more therapeutic than practice.
