Finaly, finally, finally gotr the CZ to the range. Took about four shots to get the scope ‘in the neighborhood’ but it wasnt nearly as ammo-consuming as I expected. I’d thrown together some handloads the other night, just something out of the book, and they shot okay enough. What I need to do is pick up a keg of BL(c)-2 ’cause I think thats going to be the way to go. Also some more ballistic tips.
The gun is pretty heavy so felt recoil was ridiculously light. My .30-30 carbine kicks more. The set trigger spoils you for the non-set trigger. As I said, these werent exactly precision loads….they were Remington brass (which I’ll be replacing with either Lapua or Hornady Match), IMR 4895 (I really prefer the ball/spherical powders for this sort of thing) and some Ballistic Tip 165 gr.
Shot for 3-shot groups. At 100 yards out of the 6 groups I shot half were less than 1″ the rest were less than 2″. Not a great start, but I still need to futz around with the ammo and the barrel is still probably just getting broken in. Regardless, it was enjoyable and challenging to shoot in the 20 degree weather when your fingers can barely feel the trigger. Wind was blowing too, but at 100 yards it couldnt have made that much drift.
Anyway, I think the gun has potential and I look forward to playing with it alot more.
powder reccomendation
BL(c)-2 guves great performance, but I found it to be really unstable with temprature, elevation and humidity changes.
About 1/2 moa change at same elevation with a humidity and temp change and about 2 moa low with a drop in humidity and a 1000FT elevation gain.
I have been really happy with the ramshot TAC powder. With my 20″ barrel I am usins 42.5 grains, shooting great grops and getting 2513 FPS average. The guys I am working with are getting good results with 43.5 grains. It is a really nice compromise between the velocity/accuarcy/flowability of BL(c)2 and inhearnt stability of Varget.
Re: powder reccomendation
cut finger badly cant type with this huge bandage, sorry
Nice. I can never get anything even partly zeroed in that few a set of rounds. I’m kind of a spaz though, which is why I always stop to brag when I do manage a decent group.
Well, it wasnt a walk in the park….started at fifty yards and hit the upper edge of the paper…so thats about 15″ high….after about four more shots I had ‘walked’ it to approx. the center of the page. Then I shot for group..windage/elev…..group…windage/elev…etc.