TacticalVirus
Regular
- Location
- Ottawa, Ontario
To preface this, I'll throw a bit of background out first. I spent 3.5 years as reserve infantry and tended to have very tight groupings with the C7. I practice the principals of marksmanship as much as I can. This combined with the grouping being fairly consistent, albeit off, between myself and another shooter lead me to believe that it the issue isn't entirely my fault.
As for the issue, I set up a target 50m (roughly, had to pace it out) away from the firing line. The target in question was a 16"x15" piece of aluminium with four separate targets sharpie'd on (hasty target as you can tell). At first I wasn't even using this target, I was firing at a separate/smaller target. When it became apparent we were missing terribly, we popped the aluminium target behind the second target just to see where the shots were ending up.
With the bayonet folded out, aiming at the very bottom of the target along the centre line, two shots put two holes in a vertical column with about 5-6" between them, aswell as being three or so inches to the right of centre. Aiming at the bottom left hand corner, two shots produced two holes, one in the very dead centre of the target, the other oddly enough at the exact point of aim. A fifth shot didn't even hit the target. More rounds produced similar results, the shots were generally high and to the right with atleast one flyer per volley.
Now, when I got home and cleaned it I discovered two rather disturbing issues. The first one was that both action screws were loose...and by loose I mean I backed them out by twirling them with my thumb. I snugged those up nice and tight after I was done cleaning, and I'm going out again sometime next week so I'll find out if that was the main culprit. The second issue is that there were brass filings in the chamber. The last time I saw brass filings in a gun of any sort was when a C9 ate a blank round and jammed to the point it took three soldiers, the C9 sling, and the aid of a trench to get the bolt carrier moving again. This time they weren't large brass filings, more the size you'd find at the bottom of a lathe, but it's still a disturbing finding.
So, I guess my question is, has anyone fixed issues like this before? Also I'm using soft-point PPUs, and I haven't slugged the barrel to find the true bore dimensions. For what it's worth, the rounds weren't keyholing, they were just Minute-of-barn.
As for the issue, I set up a target 50m (roughly, had to pace it out) away from the firing line. The target in question was a 16"x15" piece of aluminium with four separate targets sharpie'd on (hasty target as you can tell). At first I wasn't even using this target, I was firing at a separate/smaller target. When it became apparent we were missing terribly, we popped the aluminium target behind the second target just to see where the shots were ending up.
With the bayonet folded out, aiming at the very bottom of the target along the centre line, two shots put two holes in a vertical column with about 5-6" between them, aswell as being three or so inches to the right of centre. Aiming at the bottom left hand corner, two shots produced two holes, one in the very dead centre of the target, the other oddly enough at the exact point of aim. A fifth shot didn't even hit the target. More rounds produced similar results, the shots were generally high and to the right with atleast one flyer per volley.
Now, when I got home and cleaned it I discovered two rather disturbing issues. The first one was that both action screws were loose...and by loose I mean I backed them out by twirling them with my thumb. I snugged those up nice and tight after I was done cleaning, and I'm going out again sometime next week so I'll find out if that was the main culprit. The second issue is that there were brass filings in the chamber. The last time I saw brass filings in a gun of any sort was when a C9 ate a blank round and jammed to the point it took three soldiers, the C9 sling, and the aid of a trench to get the bolt carrier moving again. This time they weren't large brass filings, more the size you'd find at the bottom of a lathe, but it's still a disturbing finding.
So, I guess my question is, has anyone fixed issues like this before? Also I'm using soft-point PPUs, and I haven't slugged the barrel to find the true bore dimensions. For what it's worth, the rounds weren't keyholing, they were just Minute-of-barn.
I was going to post them to learn more about the gun (besides the fact that it's an Izhevsk M44 built in '44)
