Mosin PU sniper 100 yard challenge

[ghostntheshell]

Marc_j:

I agree! I have a box of the hornady steel vintage match 7.62x54r and I just can't bring myself to use it.
Paid a lot for it - and it's very hard to even find.

But I'm curious if will do better than my PRVI commercial ammo that does so well for me.

 

[TheWhole9Yards]

I've got 4 types of ammo to try next time I'm at the range, should be interesting to see if there is any noticeable difference.

Bulgarian silver tip surplus
Norinco surplus 2011 production
Chinese surplus
MFS fmj from cabelas

 

[Ganderite]

I took my repro sniper to the range and shot 3 types of ammo. Silver tip (147gr) yellow tip (180 gr) and some handholds with Sierra 174Match.

I think the match scored 100 on the target, but I had a senior's moment and left the stack of targets and my stapler at the range...

I will go back tonight and look for them.

I don't think the yellow tip did as well as the silver.

Went back and found my targets and stapler. Glad I did. Results are different than I thought.

100 yards, off a comfortable bench at good aiming marks.

Three types of ammo:

Silver tip milsurp 147 gr bullet

Yellow tip milsurp 180 gr bullet

Handload Mexican Match with 45.5gr & 174 gr. Sierra MatchKing

All three shot well under 2.0"

I intended to shoot a series of 5 shot groups out of three different rifles, so that each would have some cool time between shoots. I brought the wrong caliber ammo for one rifle and the scope base was loose on another - so this rifle got hot!


The trigger on this rifle has erratic weight. the occasional shot is a hair trigger. The low right shot in this group was an accident. Too bad, because this ammo was doing well. (It did well last week too - not a fluke.)

I just acquired 300 rounds of this 180gr yellow tip ammo. First time trying it. It shoots so well I don't think there is any point of handloading for this rifle. Can't say it is better than the silver tip, but it is good.

The handload group is about the same size as the test last week. It looks good. It is not really a handload. I pulled the silvertip bullet, re-weighed the milsurp powder and seated the match bullet.

And I shot a "challenge" target, too. 10 shot group was 2.25" wuth the Mexican Match. Scored 100-5X

A target with Silver Tip was not so good. 3.88" group.

 

[Ganderite]

Three or four months ago I bought a box of Hornady Vintage Match 7.62X54R ammo. Thirty-four bucks plus tax for 20; 2 bucks a shot!. I couldn't make up my mind whether I should shoot them, or be buried with them. I'm pretty cheap and I wasn't sure I could focus through the scope with the tears in my eyes.

I shot 10 today and they are far superior to milsurp and my current hand load. I will be examining the remaining 10 very carefully. The product number is 80518. Not for everyday shooting but one box is worth it to see what your rifle can really do. Back to the LGS and wouldn't you know it, the other box that sat there for 4 months got sold on Saturday.

Match is one the right (obviously). The flier is my fault - last shot with people waiting to put up targets. Left is 42 g 4895 and 174 g Sierra - flier is .....well...., a flier - a bad workman blames his tools.

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can you measure those groups and tell us what they are?

 

[marc_j]

The hand load (174 gn Sierra and IMR4895) is 1 3/4". The Hornady vintage Match is 1 1/4". In both cases I excluded the flier since we are interested in the performance of the ammunition and rifle; not the operator. I have shot a few slightly better 5 shot groups with hand loads since posting the original photo. Now I'm out of bullets and have to go back to work.

Anybody tried D166 Lapua bullets?