7.62x54R: just how accurate can it be?

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#61 Post by **Sandgroper** » Mon Jun 18, 2012 7:37 am

Alpha1 wrote:Oh my God please stop a smle with a stainless barrel in 7.62x54 your forefathers will be spinning in there graves.
Stop this nonsense other wise I AM GOING TO HAVE TO TAKE UP BADGER BAITING.

Alpha1,
Badger is the one doing the baiting!

#62 Post by **ovenpaa** » Mon Jun 18, 2012 7:51 am

Alpha1 have you not seen the No1 Mk4's that are used in the .303 competitions these days? Lothar Walther barrels and tight chambers seem to be the norm these days along with glass bedding in the internationals.

#63 Post by **dromia** » Mon Jun 18, 2012 7:55 am

#64 Post by **ovenpaa** » Mon Jun 18, 2012 8:13 am

dromia wrote:BDM?

League of German Maidens?

#65 Post by **dromia** » Mon Jun 18, 2012 9:14 am

Thats them, a team of German girls blouses with tricked out No4s.

They have no soul those fellows, they come over to the Phoenix and no doubt other comps with the sole purpose of winning and if they get beat they complain.

I used to shoot alongside them in the Phoenix 303 comps and have yet to see one of them smile, facial expressions, if any, move towards a grimace.

Fun doesn't seem to come into their reason for shooting, still each to his own. I do find it amusing to meet stereotypes though so they always raised a smile form me.

#66 Post by **meles meles** » Mon Jun 18, 2012 11:59 am

dromia wrote:Thats them, a team of German girls blouses with tricked out No4s..... I do find it amusing to meet stereotypes though so they always raised a smile form me.

Stereotypes ? You mean they had iPods tucked in their pockets and wore headphones through which they could listen to Wehrmacht marching songs ?

Gaz · #67 Post by **Gaz** » Mon Jun 18, 2012 12:10 pm

ovenpaa wrote:Alpha1 have you not seen the No1 Mk4's that are used in the .303 competitions these days? Lothar Walther barrels and tight chambers seem to be the norm these days along with glass bedding in the internationals.

I can understand a new barrel but glass bedding? Pff. You can't beat the original service bedding on a No.4.

#68 Post by **meles meles** » Mon Jun 18, 2012 12:16 pm

Gaz wrote: I can understand a new barrel but glass bedding? Pff. You can't beat the original service bedding on a No.4.

Which was ?

*Curious*

Tower75 · #69 Post by **Tower75** » Mon Jun 18, 2012 12:27 pm

The originals were just slotted into the woodwork and the metal butted up agaist the recoil lugs, and that was it - still, the No4s and No1s were as accurate as anything out there, accept for, perhaps, the Schmidt-Rubins, those things run off of magic.

Gaz · #70 Post by **Gaz** » Mon Jun 18, 2012 12:39 pm

Wot Tower said. At home I've got one or two PDFs of various trials and studies done by, I think, the DCRA, and their conclusion was that the service bedding method worked best.

Plain wood bedding, no fancy compounds or anything like that. Bottom of the receiver made contact (mostly), along with the first inch of the barrel (the chamber area) and the last inch or two before the foresight block was also bedded. The rest of the barrel was free-floated. One Canadian modification to float the barrel involved inserting a block halfway along the fore-end, which raised the muzzle end off its bedding.

A properly set up No.4 will shoot surprisingly well at long range. I was happily holding the 4 ring at 900x with mine a few weeks back.

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