03-19-2023, 04:02 PM
OK fellers...back with the freezer report..lol
yes it was a freezer yesterday...saturday 3-18-23..high was 23* with a wind of 10-15mph...wind chill was 9*
took the gun and ammo out to the table and set it up and left it there for about 20 min.....the gun and ammo was already kinda chilled because i left it in the shop...was about 45* i guess in there...i dont keep it heated unless i am in there doing something...was 16* friday night
i loaded 20 rounds with the 95gr hornady bullet and h322 that it likes...just didnt want to run consistant before when cold..but does pretty good in the grouping department
so after the soak in the freezer for about 20min, i went out and just banged at steel with 10 rounds....my fingers were popcycles after 10 shots....but the rifle ran perfect ...shucked them cases out like a boss...well now that is an improvement....so i left it siting out there in the wind and cold and came into the house and put some wood on the fire...build a pot of venison stew and made a cup of coffee and pondered what just happened...45min all together i guess... rifle is still out there in the freezer for all this...i wanted it really cold for the last 10 rounds
so last ten rounds went just like the first...not even...notta..nuttin...ran flawless....so... did we fix it??? more testing and time i think...i really want to trust it but a 20 round sample size is kinda small...well it is 23 rounds i guess, i did run 3 rounds through it the other day after i worked the extractor...it was about 45* that day but it shucked them out too
i will say i was impressed at how hard those 95gr hornady v-max bullets were smacking the steel at 200...pretty good whack..and a pretty good splash group there too...
so right now i am pretty happy... we have made a very big improvement... and for the second time i want to say i think we fixed it...it sure looks like we did...but i dont really want to go there just yet.....but it is running better than ever...plus i bet if you could get a 5 gal bucket sitting in the right place it would put all the cases in the bucket ..at about 4 oclock .....i had a nice little pile of 20 about 4-5 ft out...so that looks good too
so i want to get some more stuff loaded and shoot it somemore....test more and maybe get some blood on it...thats why i built it to start with
so right now i am happy with this rifle i built...very accurate..looks good and right now i want to say the gremlins are out of it...we shall see i guess and i want to thank you all for chiming in and helping me trouble shoot this thing...im not sure i would have looked to hard at that extractor if not for you guys...glad you pointed me there for sure
thank you all very much
ocharry
yes it was a freezer yesterday...saturday 3-18-23..high was 23* with a wind of 10-15mph...wind chill was 9*
took the gun and ammo out to the table and set it up and left it there for about 20 min.....the gun and ammo was already kinda chilled because i left it in the shop...was about 45* i guess in there...i dont keep it heated unless i am in there doing something...was 16* friday night
i loaded 20 rounds with the 95gr hornady bullet and h322 that it likes...just didnt want to run consistant before when cold..but does pretty good in the grouping department
so after the soak in the freezer for about 20min, i went out and just banged at steel with 10 rounds....my fingers were popcycles after 10 shots....but the rifle ran perfect ...shucked them cases out like a boss...well now that is an improvement....so i left it siting out there in the wind and cold and came into the house and put some wood on the fire...build a pot of venison stew and made a cup of coffee and pondered what just happened...45min all together i guess... rifle is still out there in the freezer for all this...i wanted it really cold for the last 10 rounds
so last ten rounds went just like the first...not even...notta..nuttin...ran flawless....so... did we fix it??? more testing and time i think...i really want to trust it but a 20 round sample size is kinda small...well it is 23 rounds i guess, i did run 3 rounds through it the other day after i worked the extractor...it was about 45* that day but it shucked them out too
i will say i was impressed at how hard those 95gr hornady v-max bullets were smacking the steel at 200...pretty good whack..and a pretty good splash group there too...
so right now i am pretty happy... we have made a very big improvement... and for the second time i want to say i think we fixed it...it sure looks like we did...but i dont really want to go there just yet.....but it is running better than ever...plus i bet if you could get a 5 gal bucket sitting in the right place it would put all the cases in the bucket ..at about 4 oclock .....i had a nice little pile of 20 about 4-5 ft out...so that looks good too
so i want to get some more stuff loaded and shoot it somemore....test more and maybe get some blood on it...thats why i built it to start with
so right now i am happy with this rifle i built...very accurate..looks good and right now i want to say the gremlins are out of it...we shall see i guess and i want to thank you all for chiming in and helping me trouble shoot this thing...im not sure i would have looked to hard at that extractor if not for you guys...glad you pointed me there for sure
thank you all very much
ocharry