Sendaro
Active Member
INTHESHOP this is what happened this morning, I believe it's along the line of what you are conveying with your suggestion to BW. I will test this again.
This AM I attended and shot at Wilton NY in their steel silhouette match. This is a 10 shot match at each of the 4 ranges (200, 300, 400, and 500 yards). I was started at 400 yards on turkey targets. Some rain in the air and very damp cool conditions along with light fog. The bore of my Springfield 1903-A3 was cleaned the evening before and not seasoned. It took 4 fouling shots to settle down and start shooting. When It did I went to shooting for record. Scored 7 out of 10 hits. Next it was on to 500 yards and ram targets. There I scored 8 out of 10, and the rifle was acting well. After nearly half an hour intermission it was Chicken targets at 200 yards. That's where thing started to fall off. I only scored 6 out of 10. Going into the 200 yard part of the match there were 24 rounds through the bore. Shots that were fired with a good hold in a known condition were not behaving predictably. Before moving to the 300 yard pig targets I dry patched the bore with cotton cloth patches. As the second patch traveled the the length of bore the feel on the cleaning rod was smoother. When called to the firing line I fired 10 shots for record at the 300 yard pigs and scored 10 hits with several shots clustered in an area about 5 inches.
BTW the load that I shoot in the 03-A3 is a Lyman 311334 GC sized .310 50/50 lube over 17.5 grains of 2400 and a Federal 210 std primer. OAL at 3.350"
Thank you for your suggestion. I will continue to pursue in this direction of BW at about 20 rounds to see if it is repeatable.
This AM I attended and shot at Wilton NY in their steel silhouette match. This is a 10 shot match at each of the 4 ranges (200, 300, 400, and 500 yards). I was started at 400 yards on turkey targets. Some rain in the air and very damp cool conditions along with light fog. The bore of my Springfield 1903-A3 was cleaned the evening before and not seasoned. It took 4 fouling shots to settle down and start shooting. When It did I went to shooting for record. Scored 7 out of 10 hits. Next it was on to 500 yards and ram targets. There I scored 8 out of 10, and the rifle was acting well. After nearly half an hour intermission it was Chicken targets at 200 yards. That's where thing started to fall off. I only scored 6 out of 10. Going into the 200 yard part of the match there were 24 rounds through the bore. Shots that were fired with a good hold in a known condition were not behaving predictably. Before moving to the 300 yard pig targets I dry patched the bore with cotton cloth patches. As the second patch traveled the the length of bore the feel on the cleaning rod was smoother. When called to the firing line I fired 10 shots for record at the 300 yard pigs and scored 10 hits with several shots clustered in an area about 5 inches.
BTW the load that I shoot in the 03-A3 is a Lyman 311334 GC sized .310 50/50 lube over 17.5 grains of 2400 and a Federal 210 std primer. OAL at 3.350"
Thank you for your suggestion. I will continue to pursue in this direction of BW at about 20 rounds to see if it is repeatable.