This: it's a great, laid-back, friendly vibe. The most non-competitive competition you've ever seen.
Plus, the Mad Minutes are an utter blast.
what milsurp for military competition?
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This: it's a great, laid-back, friendly vibe. The most non-competitive competition you've ever seen.
Plus, the Mad Minutes are an utter blast.
To illustrate my point about how it's almost entirely shooter here are the scores from my clubs last vintage style match (we're casual, so long as it's > .223 cal and has irons it's good to go):
245 - 6V. CZ 858, Surplus ammo.
233 - 2V. Springfield M1A, Handloads.
206 - 5V. Norc M14, MFS.
190 - 2V. Mosin-Nagant, Handloads.
188 - 4V. Swede M38, Handloads.
188 - 0V. Norwegian 98, Handloads.
136 - 1V. SKS, Surplus.
This was doing DCRA matches 1-12, but without matches 9-12 (we only shot to 300m). So a perfect score would have been 400. Since we do rapids a semi auto is a big advantage, but as you can see from a pile of different guns ending up with totally different scores, it's all shooter not equipment.
245 - 6V. CZ 858, Surplus ammo.
233 - 2V. Springfield M1A, Handloads.
206 - 5V. Norc M14, MFS.
190 - 2V. Mosin-Nagant, Handloads.
188 - 4V. Swede M38, Handloads.
188 - 0V. Norwegian 98, Handloads.
136 - 1V. SKS, Surplus.
This was doing DCRA matches 1-12, but without matches 9-12 (we only shot to 300m). So a perfect score would have been 400. Since we do rapids a semi auto is a big advantage, but as you can see from a pile of different guns ending up with totally different scores, it's all shooter not equipment.
Not likely to go wrong with the K31.They seem to shoot any load well, nice trigger, reload fast and are well balanced, use .308 bullets, will not break the bank to obtain one. Buy one with some GP 11 or reload for it and you will be able to to hold your own with all the others. A no fuss rifle.
Ontario Annual Millsurp matches that I know:
EOHC. Ottawa ON. Several throught the year.
Blast Off Mill Shoot. EESA Sat June 02/12 Aylmer ON.
Islington mill shoot. July/12
Trails End mill shoot Chatham Aug/12
The ORA/DCRA have several dates throughout the year.
Ontario Annual Millsurp matches that I know:
EOHC. Ottawa ON. Several throught the year.
Blast Off Mill Shoot. EESA Sat June 02/12 Aylmer ON.
Islington mill shoot. July/12
Trails End mill shoot Chatham Aug/12
The ORA/DCRA have several dates throughout the year.
A small point here.
When I say "properly bedded and with a trigger job", all I mean is the restoration of the bedding and the trigger to the state they were in when the rifles left the factory. They were all BUILT to give decent accuracy, but, in some cases, that was over a century ago. TIME and CLIMATE have taken their toll (not to mention Bubba and his illiterate cousin) and so, a centry later, we are looking at bedding which has been disturbed by warpage and shrinkage, triggers which have not been serviced since the Tsar ws running Holy Russia, things like that.
When I do the bedding on a rifle, I use only the very thinnest coating, the smallest-POSSIBLE amount of bedding material. All I am trying to do is RESTORE the bedding to what it was when it left the factory. Same idea with triggers: just restore them to what they were. The guys who MADE these things had a pretty good idea how to make them shoot; I just go in, a century later, and restore things to the way THEY had them set up.
Generally this is successul, and so I can say (from actual test results) that ANY of them, used with a load the rifle likes, can be a winner. There are small differences, of course (the Ross is just so EASY to make shoot well) but, by and large, this is the rule. And that goes right back to the BIG question: "How well can you handle what they made?".
Hope this helps.
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When I say "properly bedded and with a trigger job", all I mean is the restoration of the bedding and the trigger to the state they were in when the rifles left the factory. They were all BUILT to give decent accuracy, but, in some cases, that was over a century ago. TIME and CLIMATE have taken their toll (not to mention Bubba and his illiterate cousin) and so, a centry later, we are looking at bedding which has been disturbed by warpage and shrinkage, triggers which have not been serviced since the Tsar ws running Holy Russia, things like that.
When I do the bedding on a rifle, I use only the very thinnest coating, the smallest-POSSIBLE amount of bedding material. All I am trying to do is RESTORE the bedding to what it was when it left the factory. Same idea with triggers: just restore them to what they were. The guys who MADE these things had a pretty good idea how to make them shoot; I just go in, a century later, and restore things to the way THEY had them set up.
Generally this is successul, and so I can say (from actual test results) that ANY of them, used with a load the rifle likes, can be a winner. There are small differences, of course (the Ross is just so EASY to make shoot well) but, by and large, this is the rule. And that goes right back to the BIG question: "How well can you handle what they made?".
Hope this helps.
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