I took a friend to the range a few hours before our weekly BR fun shoot to help him zero the scope on his new/used Savage MkII tacticool rifle. The scope was running out of up adjustment so I had him remove it so we could shim the rings and lo and behold it had three shims under the front rings. We pulled them out and it zeroed in a few shots. But he noticed that the bbl was very dirty. He had not cleaned it after the purchase, lol. I had forgotten my cleaning kit as well. He proceeded to attempt to shoot at 50y and it was struggling to shot 1" groups. I have a MkII and they are not that bad. He was getting frustrated so I offered to let him shoot one of my Winchester 52B rifles which has an Unertl 20x vintage scope on it. I call her the ugly girl cause you can feed her anything and will still get lucky, lol. She is a proven match winner and often shoots perfect scores and is not ammo sensitive.
We began shooting the match practice tgt for fun and after three shots he says, "How much do you want for this rifle?". He had shot three clean 10x's all into one hole. I told him to forget mine and go find his own. He only had CCI std ammo so before the match I gave him some Eley Black to try and another shooter gave him a box of Eley 10x. He went on to shoot a 2450 on the ARA factory tgt. At our fun night once each month you can shoot any tgt you want. The Winchester is not legal for sanctioned ARA factory matches but it proved why with such a fine performance on a windy day. He shot the ARA unlimited card for the 2nd match and scored about 1650 which is so so but that is a very tough target and it was windy. He was raving about how accurate the rifle was. I told him to imagine how good he would shoot with a rig that was adjusted to his eyes and not mine. My point is that in one outing he went from a shooter who thought he was not that good of a marksman to near perfect just by getting his hands on a good rifle and some good ammo. He will not stop until he finds a 52 of his own. His enthusiasm went thru the roof. And he will clean his rifle before the next outing.
We began shooting the match practice tgt for fun and after three shots he says, "How much do you want for this rifle?". He had shot three clean 10x's all into one hole. I told him to forget mine and go find his own. He only had CCI std ammo so before the match I gave him some Eley Black to try and another shooter gave him a box of Eley 10x. He went on to shoot a 2450 on the ARA factory tgt. At our fun night once each month you can shoot any tgt you want. The Winchester is not legal for sanctioned ARA factory matches but it proved why with such a fine performance on a windy day. He shot the ARA unlimited card for the 2nd match and scored about 1650 which is so so but that is a very tough target and it was windy. He was raving about how accurate the rifle was. I told him to imagine how good he would shoot with a rig that was adjusted to his eyes and not mine. My point is that in one outing he went from a shooter who thought he was not that good of a marksman to near perfect just by getting his hands on a good rifle and some good ammo. He will not stop until he finds a 52 of his own. His enthusiasm went thru the roof. And he will clean his rifle before the next outing.
