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Looks and shoots good Rob. Reloaders should take note of the Hornady 150gr FMJ bullet. I've shot a lot of them in a number of Garands, M1917s, M14s, and M1903s and find that they are about the most accurate non-match FMJ available. Comparatively cheap too.

I got a loose C3 case/drag bag in Gagetown 30 yrs ago and found a bonus set of PH rings in the inner compartment.
 
Great looking build Billybob. A classic looking rifle, and you made sure everything was A-square before joining the parts carefully back together. With groups like that right away with that M1a load, it is definitely going to be a Hun's Head splitter on the last mound back.

One question. What is the twist in your aussie barrel?????


My P-H1200C chambered .308Win, was apparently 1-14":eek:

It was as accurate as I ever competed against with issue IvI NATO ball ammo. Some said that twist rate was superb for the 144-147 gr FMJ's.
Was even okay with my 165gr handloads at @ MOA. It started to fall on its face horribly with 180gr BT's. I tried several makes and types trying to get a heavy wind bucking load in that 24" tube, but they just weren't put to sleep fast enough.

Many years ago I started into a Precision rifle section(We called it Sniper:eek:Rifle section then), and used my Parker-Hale 1200C super clip till I could afford a better rig. The section chair suggested I build it(PH1200) to C-3 spec. Wow that's over 25 years ago.

Will you shoot it in Precision rifle class Bob or is it just for pleasure???
 
That's about as good as it gets with IVI 7.62 ball!

The ammo that used to be issued by the army for the C3 at CFSAC in the early 1990's was Norma Match 168 hpbt, in the red & woodgrain colour boxes.
 
This thread rocks and should never die; great looking rifle, and the targets with background story is very helpful, honest and entertaining.

I too am a wood and steel (parkerized) kind of guy.
 
billybob said:
Well , I wasn,t very happy with IVI ball ammo performance, so I went out to the range again today. Different weather conditions rain, lightning, thunder no mirage today

first target shot fairly rapidly 8 rounds

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Second target I tried harder, held breath, concentrate on trigger pull, etc 5 rounds fired, 4 in one hole

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That looks like a PH performance with IvI ball for sure;). Bravo.

Not an absolute tackdriver with this load,.. but pretty darn good considering the load, and you can see that in a pinch, it was good enough for a Canadian Army sniper to zero with ball ammo, if M118 was unavailable, and still be somewhat effective to 600 yards. As I said before, my P/H 1200 grouped as tight as any on the line with this mediocre service load. Everyone fired this load so all rifles got an apples to apples comparison. A fair number of Remington 700 HB varmints and R77's HB's( This was the eighties, not alot of tactical precision rifles around back then), could not shoot as tight.

Only reason I could think of was PH's optimum twist for the light 147grFMJ. IIRC it was 1/14", but 30 years later I cannot find data to confirm my own twist test at the time.
 
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