Intro and CZ 452's

[natebonebusta]

Well I've been doing a lot of research on accuracy out of rimfires and I landed here. I've combed through plenty of great info here. I'm just a squirrel hunter looking to squeeze maximum accuracy out of my 22's at 50 yards. Sometimes shots do happen further than that and I'm always looking to learn what my rifle will do at longer distances. The tighter I can be on the bench the more I can be off in the wood and still make an accurate and lethal hit. I am finding I do like to shoot from the bench more now, but that can become costly.

I mainly hunt with my suppressed 452 now, as it became legal to hunt suppressed Oct. of 2013. Over the next 3 months I'll be working the rest of my 452's for accuracy for the upcoming season. I hope to continue to learn as much as possible and see if I can get better at my technique. The suppressed 452 has recently been pillar and glass bedded and is sighted in with Eley subsonic. My idea is that if I can hit inside a quarter at 50 yards I can put a squirrel in the bag, however I'd like to always hit inside a penny. Here are is my last shooting session with Eley. I made no adjustments to the scope, but did install a DIP sear to remove all creep. I will probably in the next session make an adjustment to come to the center of the target.






Rifle: Glass is Clearidge Ultra XP 6-20x40ao

 

[yoteman]

hell, looks good enuff, for tree rats
spend you money on ammo, an dont worry
targets are min of squirrel head now LOL

 

[RicosRevenge]

hell, looks good enuff, for tree rats
spend you money on ammo, an dont worry
targets are min of squirrel head now LOL

Yep... looks like you are about there. Welcome!

 

[natebonebusta]

Well after that shooting session I decided to swap my ring setup based on a bump test I performed for trigger safety. My original setup was J&P delrin adapters with Burris Zee rings. I liked that setup but during the bump test with the rings torqued at 40 in/lbs the scope moved rearward. Can't have that and be confident. So I switched up to BKL 263 rings that came with a rifle I recently purchased.

I ran another 50 rounds in sight in and working really hard on a good breathing pattern for better technique. The DIP sear has helped greatly with creep elimination.

Sight in target: Last group was shot in the middle of the orange dots. I'm now finding I can call the shots that I blow.


Here is my squirrel card. I like to shoot one shot at each quarter sized circle, squirrel goes in the bag. I put this in my dope log with corresponding rifle for notes during the season.