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  1. Sooter76

    Surprised by the accuracy of the 03-A4 Springfield

    Outside of not being sealed well I’m not sure how fragile the 2.5x scopes were. They seem pretty robust in terms of maintaining zero and it’s worth pointing out that they went through more abuse than probably any scope system that came after the Korean War. Now the Uterl scopes are a different...
  2. Sooter76

    Surprised by the accuracy of the 03-A4 Springfield

    I had started working up a load from a faux-a4 I had built from a reclaimed receiver. It has a vintage 2 groove barrel and with my first mix of powder and 168gr Sierra MatchKing pills I got 1.2 MOA. Not bad for a starting point. Unfortunately, shortly afterwards the Army decided I needed to...
  3. Sooter76

    Passing the torch....... for the second time

    You should see my wife shoulder my .62 black powder Fusil-de-Chasse... The gun is literally as long as she is tall!
  4. Sooter76

    Brown bess

    All but guaranteed to be a repro... Probably either a Pedersoli, Navy Arms, or a Miroku unless he had one built. Post pics.
  5. Sooter76

    MOA with Mosin Nagants?

    Who looks down on Japanese rifles? I've always heard the Arisaka rifle was one of the best Mauser derivatives available, and in some ways better.
  6. Sooter76

    MOA with Mosin Nagants?

    You may have misconstrued my comment. It was a joke, nothing more... You stated that the Mosin is capable of 1 MOA if the barrel and crown were good, the stock was fitted correctly, the action shimmed and the barrel pressure padded, the trigger and sights replaced, and a good handload found. So...
  7. Sooter76

    MOA with Mosin Nagants?

    So... Essentially the same thing that can be said of any other milsurp rifle, and with similar corrective measures? ;-p
  8. Sooter76

    Black Powder Precision Rifle Gunsmith?

    Well... There's of course debate over how prevalent working up a load was among civilians, but it is mentioned in writings and there were enough riflemen in the Revolution that made use of accurate aimed fire that it doesn't appear uncommon. So I guess the real question would be where's the cut...
  9. Sooter76

    Black Powder Precision Rifle Gunsmith?

    That's a good question and I admit I have no idea... I'm more into 18th Century flintlocks and to a lesser extent Hawkins style Plains Rifles so it's a little outside my blackpowder wheelhouse, but I'd have to imagine with the number of surplus guns on the market after the Civil War it would...
  10. Sooter76

    Black Powder Precision Rifle Gunsmith?

    It's not really modern methods or materials. The use of patched round ball (PRB) was very much in use by those with rifles by the time of the Revolutionary War (ie. civilian hunters), and while there is no definitive proof of it being used in smoothbore guns it seems likely that it was, at...
  11. Sooter76

    Black Powder Precision Rifle Gunsmith?

    Just because an erroneous belief persists since the earliest days doesn’t preclude it from being wrong... 1) Wellington, Washington, and Franklin all lived in a period when troops were not taught to aim but fired in mass formation. Accuracy was not a concern. 2) As I already stated there were...
  12. Sooter76

    Black Powder Precision Rifle Gunsmith?

    The idea that smoothbore muskets were wholly inaccurate is more myth than anything. True they were not as accurate as rifles but the enduring myth of their innaccuary owes more to military arms not having sights. None had rear sights an most used the bayonet lug as a front sight if they aimed at...
  13. Sooter76

    SVD Dragunov up for auction at RIA

    I’d love to own a Dragunov, but they are in now way worth the prices they go for when it’ll only be a safe Queen.
  14. Sooter76

    MOA with Mosin Nagants?

    Here's the 'easy' button... http://smith-sights.com/accurizing-the-mosin-nagant-a-year-later.php You can either order the kit or just follow the guideline on the page. I wish I'd known about this site before I went thru the hassle of cutting soda cans but I might still try out one of the guys...
  15. Sooter76

    MOA with Mosin Nagants?

    Just shim the barrel and action and swap out the trigger for a Finnish M39 trigger. No one but you will ever know the difference.
  16. Sooter76

    MOA with Mosin Nagants?

    I'm not really a fan of the Mosin and I think expecting 1 MOA out of one is ridiculously high hopes unless you're restocking and floating the barrel. However I do have one Russian Mosin (and a Finnish M39 but that's a different animal) , and what I've found after shimming the barrel is they have...
  17. Sooter76

    Scope opinions- 1903a4 "clone"

    Not with the correct reticle you can't... I have a Hi-Lux reproduction and I have an original vintage Lyman Alaskan. The only reason to get an original is if you have an original and authentic sniper rifle. The Hi-Lux repro has clearer glass, is reliable, and cheaper. Go with the Hi-lux/Malcolm...
  18. Sooter76

    Gewehr 98 action

    Anybody else get a lil sick to their stomach seeing stripped receivers like this anymore? It's not OP's fault and years ago their were so many of these war horses in circulation that stripping them down like this didn't matter. But now... Now it just makes me sad to see. OP, if it was me I'd...
  19. Sooter76

    CMP M1

    3-4 MOA is more the norm... I'd group the gun at 100 yards to get a true idea of what it's shooting. Sub-MOA on some steel targets could be just getting lucky.
  20. Sooter76

    CMP M1

    That's a pretty rifle... And a much nicer finish than my SG from the CMP. If you got a non-NM Garand that's shooting 1 MOA, you got very lucky.
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