{"id":6482,"date":"2014-07-04T16:50:19","date_gmt":"2014-07-04T21:50:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=6482"},"modified":"2014-07-04T16:50:19","modified_gmt":"2014-07-04T21:50:19","slug":"first-shots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=6482","title":{"rendered":"First shots"},"content":{"rendered":"

Back in godonlyknowswhen, Zastava started making Mausers. They made them for the military, but their commercial production was pretty good too. A powerful lot of these were sold by George Herter- he put barreled actions together and even sold whole guns, sold this rifle as a J9. <\/p>\n

Somewhere in there even Brownells got into the action, selling receivers and whole guns, at a pretty good price. <\/p>\n

Harry McGowen put his hands on some and barreled them in 30-06, and I have one of those. The stock was nasty but I fixed that, and the scope mounts were horrid but I got new ones from Talley (Best rings I ever bought or used) and the trigger was abominable so I got a Timney, and the scope I had was sort of awful so I bought a Nikon Monarch 3. <\/p>\n

This is the completed rifle on firing day, awaiting only it’s Made in America Harris Bipod. <\/p>\n

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Anyway, I had gotten it close using a laser boresighter, and at the range I put a big shit-n-c target downrange, sighted the barrel on the huge dot provided by the target, and adjusted the scope to match it. <\/p>\n

The first short was high and away. I held the rifle in position and moved the crosshairs to the hole, and took the second shot. it only took two clicks to get it in from there, and I filled the magazine and shot five times. Here’s the target.
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This is at about a hundred yards with the scope set to 2.5 power. yes, there are five holes in that group, and you could pretty easily cover them with a silver dollar. I am most pleased. <\/p>\n

Now I need to get trigger time, and that means a bunch of snap caps so I can teach myself never to flinch, and a lot of ammo so I can make sure it goes downrange. This is the first time all the pieces have come together for this rifle- trigger, scope, mounts, stock. I will have to get used to the nice as the suck I had before was so permeating. If this all goes well I will rebarrel this rifle, still in 30-06, but with a crowbar, a barrel heavy enough to impose it’s will on the round. And then I will start shooting at things which are far away. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Back in godonlyknowswhen, Zastava started making Mausers. They made them for the military, but their commercial production was pretty good too. A powerful lot of these were sold by George Herter- he put barreled actions together and even sold whole guns, sold this rifle as a J9. Somewhere in there even Brownells got into the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6482"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6482\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}