VZ58 MARS Accuracy Test

[Zilberbak]

I'll take ten coz I havn't been to A&E in a while with a shoulder injury!!!!!!!!!

[snayperskaya]

I'll take ten coz I havn't been to A&E in a while with a shoulder injury!!!!!!!!!

I had a few 54r off a friend that had been reloaded with a 208gr cast boolit(?), it kicked a bit with them in it!.To be fair I think they would have dropped just about anything.

[leeroy7031]

Oh and l am just going to start reloading 7.62x54R for my Tigr cos my shoulder is starting to hurt from the sardine can milsurp!

I did warn they may be a little harsh......

If you think the milsurp is bad wait until you put some 180gn in there and stoke them up, while they are super accurate you can sometimes suffer from a nervous twitch.

..... thinking of that I have 100 or so rounds and don't have a rifle to shoot these properly though anymore. Be totally wasted in the M44

Are they Sellior&Bellot?, I'll take them next time you're at Sennybridge if you like

No these are hand rolled, were superbly accurate in the SVD, holding bull/Vbull at 400m at Llandillin..... I ended up shooting some milsurp to make the day more varied and make it look like there was some improvement needed.

You're welcome to try some next time I'm out, a most excellent vintage

[Zilberbak]

I'll take ten coz I havn't been to A&E in a while with a shoulder injury!!!!!!!!!

I had a few 54r off a friend that had been reloaded with a 208gr cast boolit(?), it kicked a bit with them in it!.To be fair I think they would have dropped just about anything.

I am getting the feeling l need to man up about this as l need to shoot one those (just the one mind)!

[Sixshot6]

Finally managed to get to the range on Sunday to test out my VZ58 MARS now I’ve had the barrel re-crowned (only just managed though I was supposed to be on RCO duty!).

The conditions were less than ideal, but standard for the Ponteland range, with a 40-50mph wind picking up around 10am and continuing for most of the day, although thankfully mainly coming in from 5-6 o’clock. Also wasn't helped by the fact dumba$$ here managed to forget his spotting scope aaarggh

As the rifle has a fast 1 in 7 twist it was expected that the heavier ammo would do the best and the results proved that.

The rifle was shot from a gun rest with a 4x scope (ACOG).


I was pleasantly surprised to find that the zero i'd previously dialled in was more or less on the money, despite the scope having been taken off and put back on the gun a good dozen times. Very nice mount from CCA there

View from 200m


Best results were with 75gr Hornady Steel Match (Which just happens to be the most expensive by some margin at £54/100!!)

~1”@100m


Worst by far were from 55gr Barnual (which just happen to be the easiest to get a hold of and cheapest £32-34/100)
~4”@100m (This may have been made worse by the choice of target)



A decent compromise were the 62gr Barnual





Rapid fire with iron sights



All in all I’m happy with the accuracy from a 16” lightweight barrel. Its no precision tack-driver but for the type and platform its more than good enough. Now just got to get my backside down to Bisley for a (UKPSA) Practical Rifle comp Also heading down to North Cotes for a mini-rifle comp in July and as they have a tunnel range i might take the VZ58 with me and try to get a more precise zero

That's from the MARS, I have one too and that's about right, some suggest hand loading but with how it goes, its what it is, I use 62 and 55grn barnual and get pretty much that.