I shot the target at 100 yards. Someone with younger eyes than mine would tighten the group up but I thought it was OK for me and my eyes. There were a few strays where I lost focus, but not too bad.
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Shooting old ammunition.
You sometimes see on shooting forums someone asking if some ammunition they have that is 10 or 15 years old is safe to shoot. I was out on Sunday shooting some ammunition much older than that. I was shooting my Mannlicher carbine using 1940 dated Bulgarian 8x56R ammunition, so 85 years old. I shot 25 rounds and they all went off as they should. I have over 500 rounds of this and it shoots well with just the very occasional very slight hang fire. I checked it with the Garmin and over the 25 rounds it gave an extreme spread of 88.3 FPS, and average velocity of 2308.5 and a SD of 21.1 FPS. This is from a 19 3/4 inch barrel. In contrast, I shot 15 rounds of Magtech.308 Win fresh from the shop that had an extreme spread of 111.2 FPS and an SD of 31.2 FPS.
I shot the target at 100 yards. Someone with younger eyes than mine would tighten the group up but I thought it was OK for me and my eyes. There were a few strays where I lost focus, but not too bad. Not sure why the target photo is upside down but hey ho.
Regards
Peter.
I shot the target at 100 yards. Someone with younger eyes than mine would tighten the group up but I thought it was OK for me and my eyes. There were a few strays where I lost focus, but not too bad. Not sure why the target photo is upside down but hey ho.
Regards
Peter.
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I’d say that was pretty good, certainly good enough to take out an enemy
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Good shooting
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It is genuinely nice to see shooting being enjoyed.
Thank you
Thank you
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On the flip side of this is have about 250 rds of Syrian 7.5x54 French from the 60s/70s in believe and it just doesn't go bang at all, the primers are long past there sell by date. But put the powder and bullets into a PPU case with new primer and its excellent stuff, groups better that new factory PPU Ammo.
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Years ago I had a Winchester Model 1903 semi-automatic rifle chambered in .22 Winchester Automatic. An old guy at the club gave me a handful of old copper cased rounds of unknown age. Of those I tried only about 10% went off - the rest I pulled and scrapped.
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Hello
I always used to shoot Mil Surp Yugoslavian 8mm Mauser dated from the the 50s came in card board boxes and was held in stripper clips not seen it in a while now, it was cheap as chips, and shot very well, down side were the corrosive primers, and this should be remembered when using old ammunition.
I always used to shoot Mil Surp Yugoslavian 8mm Mauser dated from the the 50s came in card board boxes and was held in stripper clips not seen it in a while now, it was cheap as chips, and shot very well, down side were the corrosive primers, and this should be remembered when using old ammunition.
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