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I went to the range Monday and Tuesday this week. I took my Tikka Continental 223 and a Marlin 39A of my wife's to entertain myself while the barrel was cooling between groups with the Tikka. I shot ammo I already had loaded for another 223 but it was full length sized so it fit the Tikka fine. It seems to favor the 50gr Sierra bullet with the H4895 but would need more groups to say for sure. The center target at the bottom right was shot first. I then moved it left a couple clicks and shot the top left with the same load. Both groups with that load were close to the same with the top left .491 and the bottom right was .436. Then top right with a Hornady 50gr bullet and it was .951 which is not what I am looking for but will try that bullet again with different powder. The bottom left another Hornady bullet at 55grs and only shot three as I noticed the last round to be fired had a split neck so decided to bring it home a pull the bullet on that one. One Tuesday I went with just loads with the 50 Sierra bullet and several different powders. I moved the adjustments left before shooting my first group in the center on the right target. I forgot I had already moved it left the day before when I left the range. Oh well it is still on the paper so I continued to shoot. Center group with AA2200 powder with Sierra 40gr Blitz King was .341. Then to top left was the 50 Sierra again with H322 and was a nice group of .267. Top right is a load some of my other guns shoot well but the Tikka not so good at 1.071. The bottom right was some old BlC2 military surplus a friend gave me he bought over 30 years ago that smoked bad and shot terrible. Hate to pitch 6lbs. of powder out but this stuff looks to be bad. The target with the orange tape was the 39A at 50y with the peep sights shooting with no bags just my elbows with CCI Blazers. Not target accuracy but I had fun going through two boxes of her ammo.
The targets

The two range "victims."

Very nice rifles!

Nice shooting with the 39A with a peep.

ditto1958 wrote:Very nice rifles!

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Sir Henry wrote:Nice shooting with the 39A with a peep.

The 39A Marlin target was 1.5" for the 10 shots with the Hi-Velocity ammo which this rifle shoots good but not quite as good as the standard velocity ammo. This one is fun to shoot with a trigger under 2lb. I might try to trade her one of mine even up for this one.

Most of my rimfires will shoot much better with SV over HV. The German ammo is much better than American.