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First time at the club range for three months.
Nov 6th, 2021 at 6:56pm
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It's a lovely sunny Sunday morning with the temperature in the house at 25 degrees C.
Car all packed and ready to go and the first time to the range in three months due to all the Corona virus restrictions from our left wing government.
Got a new/old eight power Leopold on the High Wall to sight in and replace the vintage Lyman 6 power I had on it.
The Leopold is a very nice scope and I cannot see much difference if any with the 8 X 56 Swarovski on the rifle on the left but that will probably change as the light goes.
  
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Re: First time at the club range for three months.
Reply #1 - Nov 6th, 2021 at 7:27pm
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So how did it go? 
I see three very nice Firearms and not Weapons as some would prefer to say that they are.
Chambered for what cartridge each, barrel twists, bullets, alloy or possibly something else than. 
Fixed or Breech Seated and load information for each. 
Or for just possiblity the one you are referring too?
  

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Reply #2 - Nov 8th, 2021 at 10:32pm
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The one on the left is in 222 and a one in twelve twist.
The lever re-shaped for the pistol grip stock which I liked when I had it made twenty years ago, although I now like the straight stock and it now seems a bit silly now and more expensive as the original wood on all of these BSA Martini's is pretty good and I personally now prefer the straight stock if you are carrying it all day.
8 x 56 Swarovski on top which on comparing at the range on Sunday in full sunlight (hot day in the sun) is a better scope  than the the 8 power Leupold but then it should be at double the price.
Bought this scope over forty years ago for deer shooting on a friends farm which bordered on a large public wood in England where no shooting was allowed and the deer used to come out of the wood at night to feed on his crops. 
As I had it laying around put it on this rifle with with Leupold scope rings.
Trying some ADI Bench Mark 2 powder with a 54 grain home made bullet with a R/F jacket.
Used a Corbin press and dies whose book on making your own bullets is a must. Over the years made several thousands and using his commercial jackets gave a good bullet every time.
Not so using R/F jackets. The ogive would have a tendency to fold and back in the melting pot to use the lead another day. To stop this I made lead tip bullets to keep the lead up front and also at the base of the bullet after cutting the jackets down to size used a die that Dave Corbin made for me of two different sizes to make a concave bullet like the lead bullets in the 455 Webley, to help get rid of any firing pin mark that hadn't been cleaned up in the first operation to get the lead up front and still keep a decent length of bullet.
Got my gunsmith to make up a collet to fit my cartridge case trimmer to cut the R/F cases down to what ever weight bullet I wanted,
A work of love and only did it to see if I could.
  
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Reply #3 - Nov 10th, 2021 at 3:22pm
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Middle one is a 223 with a one in eight twist Barrel, a six power Frankonia Jagd scope which I bought on Ebay from Germany years ago with a typical German reticle of two thick horizontal and a pointed vertical, great for seeing in thick bush or low light.
These vintage style scopes along with the fixed power Leupold give a bit more room for loading a Martini as most modern scopes these days have pretty long and fat rear ends.

  
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