Wish I had it today, it is already 50 degrees at 9:00 AM but forcast for snow this evening. Also ordered a couple of boxes of Federal fmj as a control load so I'm ready when the gun arrives. I've put togather a few rounds each with 4227, 2400, 5744 and the cursed H-110. I have H-110 on hand and have gotten good carbine loads with it but just hate to run it through my powder measure because the dust size granules bind up the rotor. Thanks Kragman, yeah the little carbine can really surprise folks who think they're only good for minute-of-washtub. 22 WMR, same velocity with nearly three times the bullet weight. I have had good results with H-110 but hate the fine grains which bind up my powder measure. I've been without a carbine for 15 years or so and find my once favorite powder, Winchester 680, is no longer available. With broadside shots at 75 or 80 yards the exit was about the size of a quarter and the deer didn't seem to know it wasn't a 30-06. I've taken a couple of deer with a handload using the Speer flat nose hollow point 110 grain. I've found the Federal AE to be quite accurate ammo. That stuff was cranked out the quickest way possible, the only concern being safety and certainty of firing but not certainty of hitting. The carbines reputation for lousy accuracy was mainly due to the surpluss ammo. That has greatly improved tha accuracy of several carbines.īut the main thing to improve accuracy is to give it good ammo. One can then dispense with the barrel band and handguard or retain them for cosmetics and "free" the band so that it doesn't bind on the barrel and glass that short area of the barrel channel with band in place. I drill and tap a 10x32 hole in the front bottom flat of the reciever to take a screw which holds the reciever to the wood and glass bed that area also. I don't really recall if that was to make the front sight taller or just because I wanted a shiny brass front bead.Īccurizing, as i've done it, consists of glass bedding the recoil plate to the stock and installing a set screw in the top of the plate to hold the reciever hook tight to the plate. Back in the foggy corners of my memory I seem to recall that I added a bead of brazing rod to the top of a Universal carbine front sight. combined old surpluss and newly manufactured parts and sometimes these were mismatched. A lot of carbines under names like Universal, Plainfield, Iver-Johnson, etc.
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