Varmint Accuracy

[Subdeacon Joe]

 

 

 

[Forty Rod SASS 3935]

Not sure why you'd want an accurate varmint.  

[Eyesa Horg]

Never met a boy named Joyce! 

[Hardpan Curmudgeon SASS #8967]

3 hours ago, Eyesa Horg said:

Never met a boy named Joyce! 

 

I did!  

 

I actually got to meet Mr Hornady back in the early 70's during a visit to the San Francisco Gun Exchange.  Bought his reloading manual that day.  

 

                  

[Pat Riot]

3 minutes ago, Hardpan Curmudgeon SASS #8967 said:

 

I did!  

 

I actually got to meet Mr Hornady back in the early 70's during a visit to the San Francisco Gun Exchange.  Bought his reloading manual that day.  

 

                  

I think I have that same book. A friend of mine gave it to me a few years back. 

[Big Sage, SASS #49891 Life]

This is what I call varmint accuracy! My .220 Ackley Improved Swift 3 shot group that is really one hole @ over 4,000 fps.

 

[DeaconKC]

@Big Sage, SASS #49891 Life Superb! And I love your rifle!

[Capt. R. Hugh Kidnme]

20 hours ago, Eyesa Horg said:

Never met a boy named Joyce! 

His brother is a boy named Sue.......

[Pat Riot]

I love that old scope. 
 

I took a couple screen shots and put them together. Imagine handing that rifle and scope to a modern Precision Rifle Shooter. It would be fun to watch, I’m sure. 
 

[Texas Maverick]

2 hours ago, Big Sage, SASS #49891 Life said:

This is what I call varmint accuracy! My .220 Ackley Improved Swift 3 shot group that is really one hole @ over 4,000 fps.

 

Nice shooting. I had a 22 Hornet about 40 year ago that was accurate like that. 3 shots at a 100 yards that could be covered by a dime. I let a friend that just loved the rifle talk me out of it and i kick myself even to this day for selling it. He ended up having it stolen from a home break-in a few years later. He killed a lot of prairie dogs and squirrels with that rifle.

 

TM

[Big Sage, SASS #49891 Life]

4 hours ago, DeaconKC said:

@Big Sage, SASS #49891 Life Superb! And I love your rifle!

Thanks. I had a local gunsmith build it. I had the 03 Springfield action from another project I never finished. I also built the thumbhole stock. I originally built the stock for a hunting rifle which I found to be rather clumsy working the safety with my thumb inside the stock. Works great for this application tho!  I am an Ackley fan and I have shot a ton of prairie dogs with this gun. 

[bgavin]

I have a Savage LRPV in 223 I want to take on a dawg hunt next spring.

It is a single shot model with the 26" bull barrel.