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MARCH 1965
Vol. 9, No. 10
40 cents
Precision SHOOTING
PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY PRECISION SHOOTING, INC-
Editorial and business office at
Lyndonville, Vermont 05851.
Editor—P. H. Teachout
President—Creighton Audette
Vice-President—Dermot Reilly
Treasurer—P. H. Teachout
Clerk—Frederick G. Mehlman
Subscription rates:-To the U. S., Canada
and Mexico, 1 year $4.50, 2 years $8.00.
All other countries $1.00 per year addi-
tional. Change of address requires 30
days’ notice.
Place of Publication—Cowles Press, Inc., St.
Johnsbury, Vt. Second-class postage paid
at St. Johnsbury, Vt.
COVER PHOTO
A group of Crooked Creek Benchrest
Shooters, Allentown, Pa. The picture was
made at the group’s display and exhibit for
the Guthsville Rod & Gun Club’s 32nd An-
niversary Day.
Seated at the loading press is Bruce R.
Romig, the Crooked Creek Benchrest Shoot-
er’s secretary, and standing (left to right) are
members Herman V. Haldeman, Henry L.
Shaffer and George W. Seip, all very ardent
competitors in the group’s annual season’s
shooting program.
The Guthsville Rod and Gun Club is
and has for several years been an NBRSA
affiliated club.
The photo was made by the CALL-
CHRONICLE, an Allentown, Pa. newspa-
per.
THE INSEPARABLE TRIPLETS
“Igniting” what follows was a recent
letter from Mr. Frank Harper, a long-time
Precision Shooting subscriber in Cleveland,
Ohio, regarding the anti-firearms problem
and means of counteracting it. Mr. Harper
makes some strong points, which will follow.
But first, my reason for using the above title.
In any sensible democratic and/or re-
publican form of society, individuals do have
certain recognized “rights.” The individual
is expected to exercise those “rights” in a
“responsible” manner, with due “respect”
for the life, property and reasonable comfort
of his neighbors. Those three “R’s” are the
triplets and I believe that in any successful
civilized society they are inseparable.
Unfortunately, there are some individ-
uals whose only interpretation of “rights” is
to do whatever they wish to do without any
regard of how their actions may affect
others. These people have no respect for
any law. The shooting sports are plagued
by a small majority of such people. Their
careless, wanton and sometimes malicious
shooting has a powerful influence on many
uninformed non-shooting people to turn
them against all use of firearms for sport or
recreation. We already have laws, intended
for the protection of life and property, by
which these shooting vandals could be pun-
ished, but they are hard to apprehend, it is
hard to get convicting evidence, and if con-
victed they are too frequently given a mini-
mum punishment and sent on their way
laughing at the “law.”
Back to Mr. Harper. He started off by
stating, “All shooting publications, including
P. S., depend on the right to own and use
firearms.” There can hardly be any dis-
agreement with that.
By way of intolerance he points out
that “Too many shooting clubs have more
by-laws to keep shooters out, than to entice
them into the club.” That “Too many clubs
have racial and religious membership re-
stricions.” And that “Too many clubs are
only interested in their restricted type of
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shooting.” Intolerance is one factor behind
many anti-firearms proposals.
He asserts that people of all shooting
interests should join together in working for
the common good. That is an obvious
need. He also suggests that shooting organ-
izations, from national associations to local
club level, keep working on this problem.
By and large, the shooters’ organiza-
tions have not been sitting on their hands.
Were it not for the efforts that these organ-
izations have made in past years we would
probably now have much greater restriction
on ownership and use of sporting firearms
than we do have.
I have been actively associated with
shooting organizations, from local club to
national level, for more than thirty years
and throughout all of that time the organ-
ization leaders have had to work to protect
their members from unwise and undesirable
firearms legislation. In this writer’s opin-
ion, it is a credit to our system of govern-
ment that a majority of our legislators, both
state and federal, are pretty sensible, level-
headed people, giving fair attention to the
protection of interests of both majority and
minoriy groups. But the firearms legislation
problem is still with us and, due to changing
conditions, perhaps more acute than ever.
Perhaps the greatest present need is a
broad, comprehensive, positive action pro-
gram that all participants in the shooting
sports, of all persuasions, plus the entire
commercial field that services the shooting
sports, can get behind to actively and co-
hesively support. We are all in this to-
gether and to be effective we must exercise
some give-and-take to work for a common
cause.
Let’s do a little assessing and reviewing.
We who are participators in the organized
target shooting sports, and members of the
organizations that represent them, are a
pretty small minority of the total number
of people who participate in some shooting
sport to some extent. Since we tend to be
-a rather clannish crew, perhaps we have a
bit exaggerated feeling of our importance in
resisting undesirable firearms legislation.
We, our leaders and our organizations have
done our part, but we haven’t been alone.
It has been this writer’s observation, in
his own area, that when public hearings on
proposed firearms legislation are held, the
Fish and Game, Rod and Gun, and other
wildlife conservation clubs are better repre-
sented than are the target shooting organ-
izations. Also, that the hunters write more
“letters to the Editor’ in defense of their
ownership and use of firearms than do the
target shooters. Individually and in mem-
bership numbers in their organizaitons, the
hunters outnumber the target shooters, and
it is quite evident that they are well aware
of the need and ever ready to be counted in
defense of ownership and use of their fire-
arms.
In spite of much criticism, it is a fact
that the National Rifle Association has been
a leader organization in the defense of the
shooting sports and many a person will tell
you that he keeps up his NRA membership
for that reason alone. The state organiza-
tions of both hunters and target shooters
have grown stronger and more active, espec-
ially in the more populous states, and have
done very effective work in the firearms
legislative field. The shooting goods “Trade”
seems to have recognized that protection
and promotion of the shooting sports is a
measure of self-protection of its own busi-
ness interests and is becoming more active
in those fields recently. That group can be
effective if it will work as a cohesive whole
in matters of common interest. The rela-
tively young National Shooting Sports Foun-
dation, Inc. seems to be the organization for
the “Trade” to work in, and it appears to be
making a good start.
From the firearms safety angle, educa-
tion is rightly considered more effective
than legislation, and the National Rifle As-
sociation has been the unquestionable leader
in that field. Its Junior Rifle Club pro-
gram, carried on by its member clubs and
individual members, has provided basic
shooting and safety training to many thou-
sands of youngsters when they were at an
impressionable age, and that program is con-
tinuing as strong or stronger than ever.
The worth of the Hunter Safety Train-
ing program, devised and still spearheaded
by the NRA, is nationally recognized. An
increasing number of states are requiring a
certificate indicating satisfactory completion
of the Hunter Safety course before issuing a
first hunting license. In many states not yet
requiring the certificate, the Fish and Game
Departments are co-sponsoring this program
and both hunters and target shooters are
serving as certified instructors.
The NRA’s newer Home Safety pro-
gram is a most important one which can
ease some of the pressure for anti-firearms
legislation. This program reaches — the
“Moms” who fear firearms in the home.
The “Moms” are important people, and
there are such a lot of them. Fear is a nat-
ural and normal emotion, and as such is de-
sirable. Unreasonable fear is usually due to
lack of understanding of the source of the
fear. The Home Safety program should
transform unreasonable fear into a normal
and protectionist fear, which is desirable.
It appears that shooting people have
been and are making effective effort to pro-
tect their “Right” to own and use firearms
for sport. They are exercising. “Responsi-
bility” by their effort to make shooting a
safer sport for both participators and non-
participators (Respect). But this has been
essentially defensive effort. Now we need
to do more and, in this writer’s opinion, the
time is ripe to start doing it. In fact, some
others appear to be of the same opinion and
a start is already being made.
I do not think I am alone in believing
that we now need a massive, well directed,
promotional effort to make the shooting
sports a nationally popular family recrea-
tional activity. To be successful, such an
effort will require promotional and mana-
gerial talent of a high order, plus very ade-
quate financial backing. It should consider
the shooting sports as all-inclusive; hunting
and target shooting with handgun, rifle and
shotgun.
I do not have the ability to map out
details for such a promotional program, or
to lend any worthwhile leadership to it. I
can, however, offer my opinion of potential
results of such an effort, how all-inclusive
the program might be, and how all cate-
gories of the shooting sports could benefit
from such successful promotion, and. that I
will do in later issues.
P. He.
WHAT’S WRONG WITH OUR
DEWAR TEAMS?
(Capt. Presley W. Kendall, USA MTU)
The new NSBRA has just released the
results of the 1964 Dewar Team competition
among the English-speaking nations. Again,
as last year, the U. S. team fared poorly.
We were beaten very badly this year (1964),
finishing an embarrassingly weak third.
What has happened to our once close
domination of the Sir Thomas Dewar com-
petition? Are our shooters not as good as
in the past? Are our teams poorly man-
aged? Are we shooting the match proper-
ly? Just what is wrong?
Since the rest of the nations have
adopted the U. I. T. small scoring ring-large
aiming black target, we have been having
an uphill fight. With this target, more ef-
fort has been required to shoot high scores.
A 400-25X on our target would be only
about a 390 on the new target. Naturally
our British comrades were going to improve
on this.
MARCH 1965
Associate Justice William O. Douglas (left), United States Supreme Court, received
the Camp Fire Club of America’s Plaque of Honor, one of the nation’s most respected con-
servation awards, from President Warren K. Page at the club’s 69th annual dinner in New
York on Jan. 21st.
Justice Douglas is a practicing hunter and fisherman, and all-around
outdoorsman, who has shared his knowledge and love of the outdoors with others through
some 12 books and many magazine articles.
Warren Page is well known to all Ameri on
shooting people, and is recognized by benchresters as a tough competitor to beat.
They have improved their rifles, am-
munition and techniques to the point where
their skill level has increased markedly. So,
it is not that our shooters are not as good as
before, but rather that the other nations
have increased their ability, in comparison.
As a result, we have lost the Dewar Cup
four out of the past six years.
Many of their shooters in and past their
middle years have had a rebirth in shooting
with the U. T. I. target because of the very
large aiming black. 1666 entries at the
British Bisley Smallbore Nationals in 1964
in comparison with approximately 740 at
our Camp Perry Nationals, down close to 60
entries from 1963, is significant.
While our Dewar Team will continue
to have several excellent individual scores,
primarily from our few outstanding free rifle
shooters, despite bad winds, the U. S. shoot-
ers are going to shoot the Dewar Team tar-
gets with an unreasoned fear and anxiety
caused by the unfamiliar-sized bull and
scoring rings—resulting in unsatisfactory
scores.
Once the day of firing is decided for
our Dewar Team, by our NRA officials, little
else can be done by the NRA, team captain,
or coach. It is almost impossible to get the
team members together for practice, due to
the heavy match schedule and weather.
Only the decision of shooting in the morn-
ing or evening is left to decide, once ar-
rangements for target handling and trigger
weighing have been accomplished. Like a
horse race, once started, there is little the
had (team captain) and trainer (coach) can
do.
So, there is no fault with our team cap-
tains, coaches, and NRA on managing our
teams. In fact, they have tried with serious
purpose to produce the best possible score
for that particular day.
But, the U. I. T. targets can’t be the
whole answer for our losses. In truth, that
is but half the answer. The remainder lies
in our shooting conditions for the Dewar.
Camp Perry is notorious for wicked
winds and rains. I can remember, several
times, lying on the ground in Dewar Team
MARCH 1965
matches—gambling, taking several clicks
windage at one time, shooting, and hoping
for a center shot, before the time limit ex-
pired. Wind! The 9 point difference be-
tween the top score of the excellent English
shooters in 1964 (398), and ours (389), clear-
ly shows our marked wind disadvantage.
Certainly our top shooters are, at the very
least, equal to theirs. This is shown, in
shoulder-to-shoulder competition in the 1964
Olympics, 62 World Championships, and
1963 NRA team at Bisley.
So what’s to be done? It is, possibly,
impractical to truck our 20-man Dewar
Team, coaches and supporting personnel to
one of the ranges 20 and more miles south
of Camp Perry, shoot and return—consider-
ing the present shooting and work load.
This leaves two altematives. Both
concern building a protected range at Camp
Perry for twenty shooters and their coaches.
The 1964 Dewar Team Captain has
recommended in his report that a wooden
wall system be built against the butts of the
1000-yd. (Vaile) range at Perry. Such a
system is feasible and could work.
A still better system would be to build
a rectangular earthen wall, so to speak.
This would be a 100-yd., 20-point range
with an earthen berm enclosing all four
sides. One side could be the butts of the
new Junior-Tyro range, at Perry.
Both of these proposals are sound, and
not especially expensive to construct. This
type of range is not ‘cheating.’ Our English
friends have a wonderfully well-protected
range, scant minutes from Bisley. They are
using it to give them a very decisive advan-
tage for the Dewar.
The use of a protected range and U. S.
adoption of U. I. T. targets would put us,
once again, on the path to victory in the
Dewar. How badly do we want to win the
Dewar? Do our shooters, and the NRA
Executive Council, think it worthwhile to
win the Dewar?
Until we make these improvements, our
Dewar Teams will have a continuing uphill
battle, against bad odds, for even a fighting
chance to win... .
ENTER NOW!
49th AMERICAN
SMALLBORE RECORD
POSTAL MATCHES
Individual—Team
Senior Match—100 shots offhand
College Match—50 shots offhand
Junior Match—20 shots each
prone—offhand
Sub Jr. Match (under 14)
50 shots prone
December to April,
Entry blanks—Blue Trail Range
316 N. Branford Rd.,
E. Wallingford, Conn.
COMING MATCHES
(We will list place, date, type and title of
match, name of sponsoring organization, name
and address of contact person, at a nominal flat
rate of $2.00 per insertion, prepaid with inser-
tion order. Insertion orders must reach the Pre-
cision SHOOTING office, Lyndonville, Vt., 05851,
at least 45 days before date of match for single
insertion orders. For multiple insertions, 30 days
additional must be allowed for each additional
insertion desired.)
NORTH ATTLEBORO, MASS.: April 10-
11; NRA Open Sectional-National Indoor
Pistol Championship at Angle Tree Stone
Rod & Gun Club, Inc. Obtain programs
from Mrs, Pearl Burke, 6 Crescent Avenue,
No. Attleboro, Mass.
(Note: Capt. Pres Kendall was the
1962 National Smallbore Prone Champion
with a new National Aggregate Record. He
was a member of the U. S. 1962 World
Championship team in Cairo, the 1963 NRA
Prone Team in Europe, and is the 1964 Na-
tional Smallbore Position Champion. His
score of 389 was the high score on the U. S.
Dewar Team in 1964. BSD)
TOURNAMENT CIRCUIT
WILLOWS, CALIFORNIA
Fergus Ward of San Francisco won the
14th Annual Northern California Gallery
Rifle Championship at Willows, Calif. with
793. 184 shooters competed over the four
day event, Jan. 23, 24, 30 and 31.
The competition was close in almost all
categories and classes. Duane Jenner of
Modesto fired 793 early in the contest.
Gordon Taras of San Jose also fired 793 but
failed to top Jenner's score. On the last re-
lays Fergus Ward fired 196 offhand to es-
tablish his 793 as the winning score. (Go-
ing into their offhand relays, Jenner and
Taras were tied with 599, Jenner dropping
his point sitting and Taras his kneeling.
Both fired 194 offhand. Ward dropped 3
points. kneeling and was trailing by 2 points
going into his offhand relay.)
The 20 shot prone match was won by
200-20x scores in all classes except the
Marksman class. Clifford Block of Reno,
Nevada, won the sitting match with 200-20x.
Duane Jenner won the kneeling match with
200-18x. Ward’s 196 won the offhand
match,
THE HIGH AGGREGATES
Winner Fergus Ward 793
lst Master Duane Jenner 793
2nd Master Gordon Taras 793
3rd Master Robert Wood 790
4th Master Gerald Maloney 790
5th Master Ken Cummings 789
lst Expert Kirk Clyman 782
2nd Expert Larry Wilkins 780
lst SS Ricardo Gonzales TT4
2nd SS_ Dick Bundschuh (Jr) TUL
Ist Mks Charles Dianda 744
2nd Mks_ Henry Keesee 743
Hi-Junior James Stokes 777
Hi-Lady Barbara Crossley 770
2nd Lady Nadine Gillum 770
(Continued on Page Four)
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Fergus Ward, San Francisco, Calif., winner of gallery rifle tournament at Willows,
Calif., with score of 793.
Tournament Circuit
(Continued from Page Three)
The Championship Team was the ever
formidable group from Albany, Calif. with
785 over the four man, 5-shot, four position
course of fire, with Fred Forster scoring 195,
Chris Petersen’ 194, Gordon Taras 199 and
Fergus Ward 197.
First Master team was Santa Rosa with
782 (190 offhand) and second was Ukiah
with 782 (184 offhand).
Breaking the shooters down by classes,
there were 64 Masters, 52 Experts, 37
Sharpshooters and 27 Marksman.
Adrian Landberg
BROOKLYN, NEW YORK
Twelve teams competed in the Metro-
politan Rifle League’s annual four man team
match at the II Corps Armory in Brooklyn
on January 17th. The course of fire is 40
shots per shooter at 100 yards with any
sights.
The Lakeland team (N. J.) of A. Battis-
to 400-29x, J. Maher 400-27x, R. Lee 399-
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26x and D. Schimmel 399-30x for total of
1598-112x won by a one-X margin over the
Roosevelt Rifle Club (N. Y.) team of J.
Lantelme 399-28x, S. Tekulsky 400-32x, G.
Tomsen 399-21x and W. Tomsen 400-30x.
Roslyn Club team (N. Y.) was third with
1596-104x.
The individual 40-shot match had 59
competitors, with 13 of them posting 400
possible scores. Five high were: L. Moore
400-35x, J. Lantelme 400-35x, R. Leslie
400-33x, M. Alvis 400-32x, and G. Tomsen
400-32x.
S. Tekulsky and K. Stannard had 800
goa individual aggregates, with 60 and
59 X’s.
COMING: A three part History Of Mod-
em Competitive Bench Rest Shooting, cov-
ering Organizations, Competitions, and
Equipment, Accessories, Etc. This series
should provide convenient and desirable
reference material for many riflemen. Part
I is scheduled for the April 1965 issue.
Random Shots
By Betty Summerall Duncan
The records fell—thirty-six of them,
with eighty-one National Record certificates
due to be issued! Propelled by events at
Asaka, Japan, the most remarkable indoor
demonstration of all time unfolded in the
gallery at Ft. Benning, Georgia, on January
20, 21, and 22.
Allan Hannon of the Air Force started
the show rolling with 200-20X Prone, for
which there is no record. That was with
metallic sights, as were the next 13 matches.
It really began to get exciting as match
#2 got under way. The open Prone-Sitting
record was 200+76 10s, and 200+-21 10s in
the service category. First, Wigger shot
200-+79 additional, then Dave Kimes upped
it to 86 additional 10s. Pres Kendall fired
and beat them both with 200+127 for the
open and service records.
200+100 10s Sitting gave Lones Wig-
ger the open and service records, which
were formerly 200+63 and 200+21 (of
which Wig was a co-holder). In 30 shot
Prone, Kneeling ,and Standing, he improved
the service record from 286 to 298. The
open record of 299 remains intact.
A pair of 396’s by Martin Gunnarsson,
Olympic bronze medalist, and Dennis Ding-
man gave them co-holdership of the 792
open and service records in 2-man team, 40
shots per man 4-position. This record is so
new that it is as yet unrecorded.
John Foster with 300, and Wigger with
298, for a 598 2-man team total Prone,
Kneeling, and Standing, wiped out Foster
and Tommy Pool’s 589 open and service
records.
The 2-man open Prone-Standing record
(40 shots per man) took quite a jump from
781 as Foster’s 399 and Gunnarsson’s 398
gave them a 797 total for the dual record.
Brill Krilling began warming up with
200+36 10s Prone-Kneeling to erase the
200+8 open and 200+6 service records.
In the 20-shots Kneeling match, he turned in
a 200+14 for the open and service marks . .
Belay that—: Allan Hannon fired 200+35
Kneeling at the Frank Parsons Memorial the
previous week-end!
Dave Kimes, All-American rifleman at
the University of California now shooting
for USA MTU, eased ahead of Air Force
shooter Raymond Lewis’ 2-week-old 4-posi-
tion double record. Scoring 398, Kimes
shut out 5 competitors who would have
equalled Lewis’ 397.
At 20 shots Standing (individual), Krill-
ing and Kendall became co-holders of Art
Cook’s open and service records with 198,
The 1948 Olympic gold medal-winner
(prone) has held a long-term monopoly on
this Standing record. In 1951, at Ports-
mouth, Va., he staked his claim to it with
196. In March 1953 at the Sectional in the
University of Maryland Armory—when
Freeman Morgan was Executive Officer and
I was Chief Statistical Officer—and
“Cookie” left Walter Reed Hospital, accom-
panied by his doctor, and fired the record
score of 197. Some time later he raised the
record to 198.
On January 16th and 17th at the Frank
Parsons Memorial Tournament on the NRA
Range, Washington, D. C., the USAF Team
of T/Sgt. Allan Hannon, S/Sgt. Raymond
Lewis, A/3 Henry Yoos, and Teddy A.
McMillion, established a new 4-position
service record with a 1560 X 1600 score, 59
points over the existing record held by the
Army, and 1 point under the open record . .
At Ft. Benning, USA MTU really snap-
ped back with a sizzling 4-position 1582,
which went like this—: Wigger—398; Ken-
dall—397; Krilling—394; and Foster—393.
I might add that it is high time the service
improved upon its score as the strictly fem-
inine Sabine, Texas, Junior Rifle Club had
them by 28 points until now.
MARCH 1965
The 1190 at 30-shots Prone, Kneeling,
and Standing, accumulated by Wigger—298;
Krilling—298; Kendall—297; and Foster—
297, hit the former 1173 open record square-
ly between the eyes.
Prone-Standing, the 4-man team of
Wigger—398; Foster—396; Kendall—395;
and Dingman—395, raised the Army’s own
record from 1569 to 1584. That is some
shooting!
Let me emphasize that all of the above
matches were metallic sights!
Now to check on the scope variety—:
these look more like outdoor prone scores
than 40-shots Prone-Standing for 4-man
team. Wigger—397; Krilling—397; Fos-
ter—396; Kendall—395, for a 1585 total, 12
points better than the Army’s old open and
service records.
Prone, Kneeling, and Standing, the new
4-man team record is—: Foster—300; Ken-
dall—299; Wigger—298; Krilling—297, for
1194 X 1200.
It was a “double-header” when two 2-
man teams broke the 40-shot 4-position open
record with identical 795 scores. Wigger’s
398 -and Foster’s 397 led the offensive for
the Army, as Dave Boyd—399, and Ray
Green—396, came through for the Marine
Corps.
Wigger and Boyd became co-holders,
with Barry Trew, of the 299 30 shots 3-po-
sition open records, and share the service
honors between them.
Krilling added 100 10s to the existing
service record with 200+118 in Prone-Sit-
ting . . . Foster raised the Prone-Kneeling
service record to 200+92.
The big metallic sight winner was Bill
Krilling, who stole Allan Hannon’s brand
new 80-shot 4-position Metallic Aggregate
open and service records... Hannon had just
won the Frank Parsons Memorial with
793 X 800, only to have Krilling open up
with a 797 less than a week later. Just be
glad you shot it before instead of later, Al. .
Krillng was clean Prone and Kneeling,
dropped a point Sitting, and had 198 Stand-
ing. Nice shooting, Grinder! Bill used a
post front on his Anschutz.
In the individual Grand Aggregate—it
was a draw between KENDALL and
KRILLING, both firing 2584. Kendall
came out ahead with the better Standing.
Foster placed third with 2583. This
course of fire is not recognized for pur-
poses of National Records. Neither is
match #23—the Aggregate of all individual
and team matches. This time, FOSTER
and WIGGER tied, both totaling 5856.
Foster came out on top with 1671 X 1700
Off Hand, to Wigger’s 1669. Kendall and
Krilling ranked 3rd and 4th.
Prior to the tournament, USA MTU
held a shoot-off to determine which 8 shoot-
ers would compete against 4 Marine and Air
Force competitors. With only a_6-point
range, it was necessary to set up three re-
lays. Marines laid claim to 6 of the Na-
tional Record certificates. Firing com-
menced at 7 a. m. each day and usually con-
tinued until 11 p. m., in order for those
eligible to try for records after the conclu-
sion of the regular firing.
In the first month of 1965, the con-
tagion of the Olympic victory spirit has al-
ready left an indelible imprint on the stand-
ard of U. S. shooting.
At 6:55 p. m. on February 3rd, Robert
M. Modisette, Jr., SAECO president and
NRA Executive Committee member, ap-
peared on CBS Channel 2, Los Angeles, in
a 5-minute rebuttal. The Vice President of
CBS, Mr. Robert Wood, has been appearing
in a series of TV editorials—one in Novem-
ber 2nd and 3rd and another, on January
14th and 15th were characterized by a “list
to port” on the firearms issue. Possibly re-
calling the furor following their infamous
hour-long telecast of last June, CBS was
quite insistent that a rebuttal be given to
Mr. Wood’s remarks,
MARCH 1965
You would have been proud of Bob
Modisette, as we were. He presented our
case in a logical, dignified manner, worthy
of nationwide coverage (although I believe
that he was heard only in the far south-
west). His comments were taped; there-
fore, a request to your local CBS channel
could result in having this short program
viewed in other areas. A suggestion—: you
might find them more receptive if you _re-
quested both sides of the issue, since they
were inclined to afford us equal time on one
occasion. It was decidedly to the credit of
CBS that they were courteous enough to
present Bob’s argument unchanged.
Rae
A very large billboard commanded my
attention. Its message—: “DEFEND THE
CONSTITUTION. IT IS YOUR HERIT-
AGE.” ... No advertising gimmicks. Only
the American eagle. We could use a great
many more like it.
Ree
The idea occurs to me that special
weeks are designated for everything from
“Eat Your Wheaties” to “Read Your Daily
Newspaper.” Why not petition President
Johnson to authorize “National Firearms
Safety Week”? Don’t you agree that it is
a workable idea? . . . We join the Connecti-
cut Marksman in saluting the Cos Cob Rifle
and Revolver Club for their outstanding ex-
hibit of firearms safety and competitive
shooting sports, using a window donated by
the Connecticut Light and Power Company
in Greenwich, Conn. This is only one of
the many ways in which we could advan-
tageously observe a “National Firearms
Safety Week.”
ae
What a wonderful inspiration Jesse
Grigg is to all of us! And Jesse, belated
greetings on your 78th birthday, December
llth. That was a drizzly day in Spring-
field, Illinois, and our friend was forced to
contain himself until the following day when
he went out to discover the effect of another
birthday on his shooting. Let me tell you
the result—: a 400-32X a 50-yds. outdoors
with metallic sights!!! The first week in
January, he repeated with a 30X possible.
Jesse recently passed his driver’s license
exam again and is feeling particularly light-
hearted as “that spectre of having to ex-
change my rifle for rocking chair and cane
is banished for a few more years.”
Regardless of how good you are, if you
take the time to study Jesse’s article on “Po-
sition Error” from time to time in October
P. S., I believe that you will feel enriched
for the careful thinking expended (both on
your part and the author’s). One thought
leads to another and Jesse has a couple of
pertinent suggestions to add—:
“As to “Position Error’ again I believe
that the advice about breathing before fir-
ing connotes something which can hardly be
overdone—especially when one is clean up
to all but the last shot. A lot of breathing
then may mean the difference between a
400 and disappointment.” . . . Jesse doesn’t
realize it, but he is looking straight into the
sighting eye of Freeman Morgan. Never
have I seen one person shoot so many 399’s
by dumping the last shot! From now on,
Freeman, try breathing deeply before shot
#40. This short, jerky breathing only
tends to get you “shook up.”
Returning to Jesse—“As to follow-
through, I suspect that each shooter has to
find his own best way. For mine, I try to
forget about both apertures (excepting of
course their proper alignment) and then try
to see the white band as if it were painted
on the paper. This is hard for me to do,
but when able to do it I can detect any im-
portant lack of symmetry. Nor is this the
best of it. Because the trick is hard to do,
the very difficulty itself tends to hold the
attention to the all-important business of fol-
lowing through. Fail, and I may be down
another point.”
I hope that you are all properly grateful
to Jesse Grigg for unselfishly devoting a con-
siderable amount of time and effort toward
sharing with you the results of his interest-
ing experiments and the valuable conclu-
sions which he has drawn. A word of en-
couragement or expression of appreciation
now and then is our only reward. Some of
us care enough about the future of the
shooting game to place our heads on the
chopping block, when we believe that it will
benefit our sport.
Roe
We are looking forward to Frank Kahrs’
annual jet trek from Clearwater, Florida, to
the California desert to visit his daughter,
Betty. You will all benefit, I promise you,
for according to Frank, “I am sure we could
whip up a very interesting session and at the
same time furnish some copy for your col-
umn.” Of that, I am confident . . . So
much shooting lore is either unrecorded or
is in need of being revived—too many im-
portant ideas buried beneath dusty stacks.
eed
Last fall several shooters were tenta-
tively exploring the possibility of attending
Bisley this summer so I wrote to Bob Sin-
claire for the dates. That was, however,
prior to the announcement that the Pershing
Trophy Team Match would be fired at
Camp Perry 1965.
Bob replied, “The dates for Bisley this
year will be June 19-26, and for the Scottish
shoot, September 4-10. I am glad to see
that several of our shooters are interested.”
He reports, “Bill Schweitzer and I have
been out practicing a few times lately and
he seems to be as good as ever.” Schweit-
zer, a teammate of my father’s on the 1937
Pershing Trophy Team, has won the British
Nationals on more than one occasion.
A couple of suggestions which Bob
made while at Bisley in 1963, for the con-
sideration of the British committee are: 1.
Include more any sight matches in the pro-
grams, with the eventual objective in 2-3
years of having half scope and half iron
sight matches. “I think there would be a
vast improvement in their shooting if this
were done.” 2, Change their rule covering
the shooting glove to allow gloves like ours,
which come down a few inches on the wrist
and are more comfortable. “I do not know
why they cut their gloves off at the wrist—
no good reason I can think of, and Jerry
Palmer did not seem to know why.”
Bob Sinclaire has written more than
once of the Scottish Nationals in such glow-
ing terms that I am, frankly, intrigued. Per-
haps some day, Bob, we'll even join you on
a shooting holiday in Scotland. (I dare say
the clan of Duncan would make us wel-
come)... . “The shoots in Scotland are won-
derful fun—no matches squadded and one
shoots when, as, and if one feels so inclined
and so there is none of the hard work of our
shoots. People seem to go to have fun and
everything is very pleasant.
“If we would run Camp Perry in that
fashion, and over a month, the attendance
would take a striking increase. To be sure,
one would shoot the program maybe the
first week, another the second week, and so
on, and conditions might easily be different
for one than another, but who cares? As
long as nobody is paying the shooters by the
day, or hour, why must a shoot be such a
lot of work, and who wants to get up extra
early in the morning, gobble a breakfast,
and rush out to the range? Or maybe a
shoot is not supposed to be fun. And on
top of all that, except for a very few, who
knows who wins what, and a week later,
who remembers or cares? Why is it all of
such vast importance that we must go to so
much trouble for so little real fun? Maybe
you know. I don’t.”
(Continued on Page Seventeen)
5
THE AVTRON 1T333A
CHRONOGRAPH
By Edward M. Yard
It should by now be accepted that an
accurate chronograph is a necessity for any
seriously intended load development work.
That all other factors are important is not
in question, but bullet effectiveness is bul-
elt energy. A chronograph is the check
point.
Among those available today the Av-
tron T333A is the Cadillac of the field.
Designed for, and aimed at the really ser-
ious amateur, it has the stamina for steady
industrial use. The ease and convenience it
brings to ballistic testing are a help. Its
flawless performance makes it the head of
its class. This peerless instrument has been
designed with performance as the criterion,
not price. Yet it sells at a level the ama-
teur handloading experimenter can afford.
Not cheap, it is worth its cost.
The Avtron T333A is a Counter Chron-
ograph. In it is a crystal controlled oscilla-
tor producing pulses at exactly 100,000 per
second (within .005%). Its counters record
these pulses to time a bullet passing be-
tween two points with the extreme accuracy
indicated. No other system can approach
this precision. Possibly more important, no
other method can attain such accuracy with
equal ease.
There are many ways to check bullet
velocity. The oldest, and still a basic and
reliable device, is the Ballistic Pendulumn
of Benjamin Robins. It is inherently accur-
ate, but tedious to use. The La Boulenge,
rotating discs, condenser charge-discharge e
are so hard to calibrate and to keep reason-
ably accurate, to make them undesirable.
And now with counter chronographs on the
market under a hundred bucks, these obso-
lete older devices have little appeal. Even
at $345, the Avtron is within the range of
the advanced handloader, experimenter and
wildcatter.
The T333A has straight decimal read-
out to three digits, obviating the problem of —
translating binary code displays (but, to be
quite fair, binary code is not usually a diffi-
culty). The numbers are large, exceptional-
ly readable and bright. This is the most
easily read register I have ever worked
with. Its brightness should allow it to be
used under almost any light condition.
An unusual feature is a screen and lead
circuit test arrangement that works automat-
ically as you reset the decades to zeros mak-
ing ready for the next test shot. A RE-
SET/TEST button is provided on the panel,
center and bottom, depressing it momentar-
ily will clear the register, lighting the zero
of each, decade. It at the same time
switches a continuity check circuit to both
screens and their leads. It shows by light-
ing two pilot lights above the button that
the screens are good and that leads and con-
acts are all good. If either one or both
lamps do not light, some fault which would
prevent a proper reading is indicated. This
may be failure to make contact between
clamp and screen, a loose lead wire, and oc-
casionally a defective screen. The shooter
is alerted that something needs fixing. It is
rough on your nerves and your temper when
you let go with a big blaster to find you’ve
got no reading. This automatic test is one
of the plus features that make the Avtron a
leader.
It is housed in a sturdy case with lid
to protect panel face in transport, and which
stores the leads when not in use. There
isn’t room for the screenholders, or supports
(understandably so). The case is nicely
made, attractive looking, with good hard-
ware and a comfortable carrying handle.
Complete with batteries and leads the
weight is modest, so it’s easy to lug.
Designed for battery power, the Avtron
may be used any place you may safely
shoot. If you choose, by making up suit-
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flood lamps used to illuminate the shot (no trick photography).
It is big enough to hit at fair ranges.
AVTRON Chronograph Screen has a metallized line grid on a 3 mil plastic sheet.
See text for details, faults and virtues.
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able leads, your car battery, 12 V will pow-
er it. (Note specific instructions on_ this
in Manual). An adapter for 115 V 60 cycle
AC lines is available at extra cost. For
continuous use in a laboratory this would
pay for itself.
During the period we were looking the
Avtron T333A over, we had some hot hand-
loads to chronograph for a .357 S&W Mag-
num light rifle, as well as some .308 Win.
loads ot check. So we gave it the job.
Some shots were put through both it and
my old reliable five decade box, screens ac-
curately tandemmed, getting identical read-
ings most of the time. The crystal oscilla-
tors in any properly calibrated counter
chronographs will be so close ot 100,000 Ke
that field checks mean little. You may rely
on Avtron’s calibration.
While I look at chronograph registers
often enough to get no thrill out of that,
using this Avtron for our tests was with a
feeling of pleasure. The readout is clearer
and brighter than others, including my own
design. There was a sense of assurance in
seeing the test lights signal screens and
wires O. K. There was no malfunction of
any sort during our inspection, nothing that
did not work just as was supposed, nothing
that was awkward or tricky to cause confu-
sion. The neat, well arranged panel, clear
markings, and bright crisp readout numbers
instilled a feeling of confidence in the ma-
chine. This look went more than skin deep.
The T333A just sat there on test bench do-
ing its job flawlessly.
Screens ‘and Holders
Screens supplied by Avtron are a piece
of clear plastic .003” thick with a metallized
grid on one side that measures 342”x2” at a
cost of 8¢ each, and if you can’t hit that at
25 feet don’t tell me. This size is handy if
you're checking velocity at a long distance,
measuring time of flight, etc. where any-
thing beyond a point blank target helps.
We have used these out to 150 feet, and
appreciated their being that big.
Size of screens can be a_ problem,
though. Since Avtron proposes you use one
as a start trip as well, muzzle blast will af-
fect your arrangement. You'll have to keep
that big chunk of flimsy plastic far enough
from the muzzle to avoid having it flapped
in the puff with possible wrong readings.
They are high in resistance compared to
others, too. They are not too high to work
unless defective, but more of them will
prove unuseable than Hollywood tape, ITCC
screens or Herter’s. More on this in a min-
ute.
The Avtron screen holders are large
enough to minimize the chance you'll hit
them. If you demolish one, replacement is
comparatively costly. Let’s not misunder-
stand, these are most satisfactory, and you'll
likely have no troubles. I’m going, though,
MARCH 1965
to suggest what seems to me a better set-up.
The ITCC screens printed on a backing
of paper measure 4”x1 13/16”, may be used
with the Avtron holders, and cost 4¢ each.
They are lower in resistance, and (in our
limited experience) have fewer failures.
We recommend you use them where a large
screen is required, you'll cut your cost to
half or less. Better yet is the Hollywood
tape, measuring 1” wide by 50 feet per roll,
costing 1%¢ per inch. Using this from the
roll, replacing only what you break yields a
pretty minimal cost for an easily hit second
screen. I can average between an inch
and an inch and a half, or about 2 cents a
shot. I use pencil leads as a first break
screen because of their reliably crisp snap.
If you use the Scripto fineline @ 20¢ per
12, they cost you nearly 2¢ each, but if you
can get the lead fillers for wooden pencils
in bulk they'll be a fraction of a cent apiece.
Cheapest will be aluminum foil strips or
tinsel, though variable of break, and hard to
hit at 15 to 20 to 25 feet.
My chrono range diet is Hollywood
tape for far screen plus a lead pencil filler
at muzzle, costing 24¢ to 3¢ per shot ver-
sus 16¢ for the Avtron, and contrasting with
maybe a cent for tinsel. There are the
figures, you pick your meal and the price.
Counting my time, I think I’m winning.
Spacing Of Screens
Avtron suggests, as others do, a couplé
of upright poles with a spreader bar to
space the screen holders. This scheme
must work, but it sure seems awkward. Pic-
tures of guys trying to line up with the
screens make my back ache.
I do all testing from a bench rest top.
Fasten a 12 ft. length of lumber to the front
edge, clamp your screen holders to it at 2
and 12 feet, using a steel tape to get them
right at 10.00 ft. rigid, easy to line up,
simple to use.
Much additional information has al-
ready been presented on this topic in an
earlier installment of this series. The Yard
screen holders were illustratd and described
for those who might be interested. If you
look at the article on the ITCC chrono-
graphs, you'll find the details you may need
to build the holders, and other info on
screen resistance and performance we are
not repeating here even though some of this
is itself redundant.
Mounting of chronograph screens must
be rigid, and accurate to the smallest divi-
sion of your steel tape. Setting up and for-
getting it is not enough, and periodic checks
are needed to ascertain that initial precision
is maintained.
An Experimental Ballistics Associates
Test Report
EXPERIMENTS AND EXPERIENCES
By A. H. Angerman
BULLETS: In the February 1964 issue of
Precision Shooting, page 11, I reported
spending over a month making a hundred
so-called “perfect” bullets. The jackets
were dobuly checked for wall thickness var-
iation, weighed to the nearest .01 grain,
trimmed to within .0005” in length, in-
spected, deburred etc. Wire was selected
for the ultimate in freedom from surface de-
fects and cors were triply swaged, individ-
ually examined and segregated by weight
again to the nearest .01 grain. So what?
Did they shoot any better? The answer is
yes they did. Twenty five-shot groups
made by my regular match bullets averaged
0.259” at 100 yards while the so-called “per-
fect” bullets averaged 0.233” for twenty
groups. The 0.026” difference, while small,
is statistically significant. ‘The groups were
shot from two guns under reasonably quiet
conditiosn. I doubt, however, if my pa-
tience would hold out long enough to make
all of my bullets the way I made these.
Maybe if I ever get to retirement age and
have a little more time I'll spend more of
it on improvements in my bullets.
MARCI 1965
SCOPE FILTERS: I did quite a bit of
monkeying around with scope filters last
summer. The idea was not to try to beat
the mirage (any fool knows filters can’t do
that) but to find out what kind of filter
would subdue eye tension and strain on
bright days and sharpen up target details
on dull days. Accordingly, I invested in a
set of ordinary #5 series camera_ filters
along with a 30mm adapter ring. The ring
is made of hardened aluminum alloy, press
fits over a 2” Unertl eyepiece and has a re-
taining ring that allows quick changing of
filters. Adapters and filters are generally
available in a variety of diameters, and a
combination that will fit other size eyepieces
probably can be found without much trou-
ble. The experiments turned out to be a
flat bust. I tried bright yellow, light green,
a fairly dark red, and a light blue, and I
used them on bright and dull days in regu-
lar rotation. The most I can say is to stay
away from a red one—it’s too dark, fiery
and murder on the eyes. A yellow is best
on cloudy days and a light blue is real cool
on bright sunny days. This is nothing new.
Twelve five-shot groups with each filter
averaged the same—from 0.26” to 0.27” at
100 yards under fair conditions.
NATIONAL SHOOT CALIBER SUMMARY
219 222
Shoot at Don Rem.
Custer, 1954 53% 22
Johnstown, 1955 39% 45
San Angelo, 1956 26% 63
DuBois, 1957 34% 55
Tulsa, 1958 39% 60
Johnstown, 1959 34% 44
Tulsa, 1960 30% 55
Johnstown, 1961 | 40% 30
Tulsa, 1963 18% 42,
Wapwallopen, 1963 24% 31
Tulsa, 1964 14% 37
The 308 is expected to take a big lea
ahead in 1965 (note the big jump in 1964).
This writer, however, will not be among the
proud owners of 308’s as he needs all new
loading equipment, dies, cases, primers, and
powder along with a new gun like he needs
a hole in the head! The 308’s will win,
there’s no doubt of it. Matches and aggre-
gates are now won consistently at both 100
and 200 yards with commercial 30 cal. bul-
lets, so think what'll happen to the poor 22
owners when the 30 boys all start pressing
their own! At several shoots last summer
my friend Bill Slater and I had 30 cal. guns
blasting on both side sof us and found much
to our sorrow that they could really throw a
22. Maost benches are about six feet apart,
but this distance is not enough to protect a
22 shooter from 30 caliber shock wave,
bench vibration, blast and noise.
An interesting feature of the above
compilation is the slow decline in .219 Don
and .222 shooters. Obviously if one caliber
gains another has to go, and the .22 cal.
shooters naturally took the beating in 1964.
CONDITIONS, GUN AND SHOOTER
VS SHAPE OF GROUP: Last summer I
showed an exhibit of ten different five-shot
targets to a half dozen top flight bench rest
shooters and asked them to give me their
opinions on why the groups were shaped the
way they were. I had hoped to photograph
the targets as illustrations for this article, but
my camera wasn’t good enough to bring out
sharp, full size enlargements. So we'll use
descriptive terms, and call the experts A, B,
C, D, E and F. (See me at the next shoot
if you want their names.)
Target 1—Bad Vertical Dispersion
A) Bad ignition, powder charge shift-
ing, too low a load.
B) Bad ignition, too low a load.
C) Improper load, light changes.
D) Shooter does not have correct load.
E) Poor bedding, improper load or
poor bullets.
F) Ignition trouble.
Conclusion: If your groups consistent-
ly show vertical dispersion, look for ignition
trouble (probably too low a load).
Target 2—Bad Horizontal Dispersion:
Primarily wind, but could be due
to erratic canting.
B) Mirage, mostly wind, perhaps bed-
ding.
C) Wind, perhaps mirage.
D) Wind or mirage.
E) Shooter didn’t read the wind and
mirage.
F) Misinterpretation of wind and mir-
age.
Conclusion: If your groups show a
consistent horizontal spread, it’s probably
due to wind and mirage. Try a calm morn-
ing or evening.
Target 3—Four Shots Touching—One Out:
A) Misjudgment of wind or perhaps
due to an unbalanced bullet.
B) Bad judgment or perhaps the shoot-
er got “buck fever.”
C) Condition change, wind reverse,
maybe bedding.
D_ Bad bullet, wind shift or mishold.
E) Reverse wind shift.
F) Shorter was under tension and lost
the shot.
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Conclusion: Four shots in a_ tight
group with one distinctly out is probably due
to a wind shift, bad bullet or shooter ten-
sion. The bad one is commonly referred. to
as a Gene Beecher Key Shot.
Target 4—Four Shots Touching—
One Way Low:
A) Powder measure threw low charge.
B) Light charge, powder hung up in
measure.
C) Scope malfunction.
D) Real bad bullet or low powder
charge.
FE) Powder measure didn’t work right.
F) Bad load, probably a gross under-
charge.
Conclusion: If four shots are grouped
tightly and one is directly below the main
group but way out it is probably due to an
inadvertent low charge of powder.
Target 5—Only Four Shots—One Missing:
A) Poor count. Bullets seldom blow
up in flight (target shooting).
B) Bad count.
C) Miscount.
D) Shooter doesn’t know how to count
E) pace with a light jacket may have
ive.
blown up at high velocity.
F) Poor count.
Conclusion: Keep your ammo in order
and know at all times how many shots you
have fired on the record target, especially
when condiitons are rough and you are
using the sighter target frequently.
Target 5—Bad “Slant-wise” Dispersion:
Combination of upward mirage
shift and wind.
B) Conditions, bedding.
C) Light change plus a wind shift.
D) Upward mirage changes plus a
wind shift.
E) Wind plus a mirage change.
Bedding.
(Continued on Page Seventeen)
7
INTERNAL BALLISTICS—III
By Edward M. Yard
Experimental Ballistics Associates
. POWDER Power being the basis of our
guns, we ought to give these propellants
some attention. They are interesting enough
in their essential character to merit some
study. A material that may be stored in a
pound can for many years as unthinkingly,
as calmly as chewing gum, which will as
suddenly as we wish produce a measured
spurt of energy is indeed a curious stuff.
That powders are mixtures or com-
pounds of fuels and. oxidizers has been
noted. Those we use are stable ones, re-
quiring a distinct effort to start them burn-
ing, and free from tendency to any spon-
taneous start of the oxidation-reduction re-
action. They must yet, once ignited, burn
most fiercely to achieve their purpose.
Nitrocellulose, primarily cellulose hex-
anitrate, G1 oHy 4 (ONO) 604 is the main
constituent of small. arms propellant pow-
ders. And, if any of your chemistry is still
with you, almost all of the compounds of
these elements are gasses. But 22 oxygen
atoms do not go around, maximum heat re-
lease is not possible. So, when we fire a
nitrocellulose powder in the bomb calorime-
ter containing quite some air with 20% oxy-
gen, a heat value that is a couple of hun-
dred B. T. U. too high is recorded. This
will relate to other powders of the same
type, but is not what will occur in a gun.
Nitroglycerine, ¢ 345 ( Ono,) 3 «isa
‘sometime additive to the usual nitrocellu-
lose. It will re-arrange chemically to gas
compounds with nearly a maximum or total
heat release. Any powder of the double
base type, having both nitrocellulose and
nitroglycerine in it should yield a higher
energy. It will show less loss when fired in
a tight enclosure as compared to results of
bomb tests in air. Nitroglycerine by itself
is much too violent to be used in guns. _ Its
rate of burning or explosion must be mod-
erated, as by combining it with a milder ex-
plosive of with inert materials. Even should
it be possible to make it useable in very
high percentage mixtures, the extreme tem-
peratures it would cause .in gun _ barrels
would result in ruinous erosion.
The conditions of use of powders in
guns is quite unlike that: of fuels in other
machines. An entire charge is set off all at
once. The result is a.concentration of pres-
sure and temperature quite unmatched else-
where. We should note that:
(11) PX=RT, the gas law relating
pressure, volume and temperature of con-
fined gas, R is a constant. For the condi-
tion V is constant, which is true for any
particular very short instant of time, then
P and T depend directly on each other.
This means simply that every increase in
pressure in a gun is matched by an equal
rise of temperature. When we refer to a
high pressure load as “hot”, this is most lit-
erally true.
One must recognize that very high
pressures can occur at low temperatures,
but these are the result of other means than
the rapid release of energy in confined
spaces. Don’t let such totally different sit-
uations confuse you in grasping that when
you burn powder behind ‘a tight bullet (11)
tells you that both pressure and tempera-
ture are up and in pace.': Since the hotness
may be as high as 8000°F, far above the
melting point of all barrel materials, a dou-
ble base powder that. prolongs such a peak
at helping to conserve barrel accuracy
ife. eset
Actually, though, whichever way one
goes about getting high, velocity from bul-
lets of larger sectional’ density, there isn’t
an escape from pressure apd. thus not from
temperature either. Big gases that partially
burn slow single base powders to get the
%
8
needed average force expose barrels to low-
er, but still damaging pressures longer. At
usual gun pressures of 50,000 P. S. I. this
seems less harmful, but since neither exact
pressure nor temperature data are available
to us at the shooting level, it may be that
the restricted choice of double base propel-
lans is forcing the use of one that is not cor-
rect for some loads. What else than HiVel
2 have we had? And now what will we
have?
Powder granules tend to burn as inde-
pendent, separate, units. The primer flash
has energy enough to engulf the whole
charge in a sheet of hot flame, setting all
of it off practically the same instant. The
burning of each grain is then the history of
the entire charge. As shaped determinate
amorphous conglomerates, a suitable ex-
planation of burning processes is needed, to
understand how a smokeless propellant is
consumed,
Present powders are composed of col-
loids, meaning very small particles of the
substance. They thus have no crystal struc-
ture or continuous fluid character through
which any wave might travel. Each tiny
bit tends to be consumed, give up energy to
its neighbors, setting them off in tum.
These colloidal particles being very small
the powder granules tend to burn through
evenly a layer at a time.
Piobert’s Law of Burning By Parallel
Layers seems well adapted to account for
smokeless powder combustion, and _ states
that the thickness burnt through in any in-
stant is the same over the whole surface.
Powder grains are distinct shapes, or are in-
tended to be. We may easily calculate how
this method of burning will effect energy
release.
PIOBERT’S LAW
Since any surface of a powder grain
will be burned at the same rate, accepting
this rule for the consumption of colloid type
propellant granules, the shape and size of
each bit of powder matters. By way of
illustration: In Fig. 1,, an infinite slab,
burming from both sides, would be con-
sumed at a uniform rate. Flake powders
and long thin tubes approach this condition.
Since burning must differ slightly. and
thickness vary somewhat, the final flame-
out must be a frantic burst as the grains
break into infinite bits of immense surface.
Figure 2 shows how a long thin tube and a
flake relate to the infinite slab. Figure 3
shows how a sphere and irregular chunk
burn with a decreasing surface, and degres-
sive release of energy and gas.
Explosives that have a crvstal or liquid
structure mav pass through them a shock
wave that will cause them to decomnose or
to change chemically to gas, releasing
energy at a rate much faster than a bum-
ing system would produce. These could
not be used as propellants in modern guns.
Either performance would be limited by
existing materials, or a future technology
assumed.
If we accept the idea of a regular pro- .
gression of burning of powder, and it is rea-
sonable that we should, then a function to
relate burning to other conditions is re-
quired. Pressure is usually taken as the
other factor.
POWDER BURNING RATE
SARRAU in 1876 proposed a differ-
ential equation to define the rate of burning
of grains following Piobert’s Law:
oY .. ype
Moree
where y is the fraction of thickness burned
through at time t, B and a are constants de-
pending upon the powder.
A differential equation, and an expon-
ential one at oe is hardly fair. Let’s level
dy _ f
on this. First: dt ~ casa the rate (here)
of burning through powder thickness. For
all its unfamiliar look, and despite its math-
ematical usefulness, it’s just rate. SO:—
then Rate = BP* (rate of powder burn-
ing, that is) B and a will depend upon the
type of powder. There is little way the
average serious experimenter could find
these figures. We'll find we haven't too
much need of them either.
There is good reason though to take a
hard look at this relation. Values for a are
given as between .67 and 1.0, B from .2 to
3. DuPont feels that B is .27 and a is .8
for their IMR series. With these values in
mind, the Sarrau equation is still not easy to
use.
An easier relation for the above coef-
ficient and exponent that will hold between
8,000 to 70,000 P. S. I., an adequate range,
is:
Rate—.65 + .113P, inches per second
per 1000 lbs.
The point to remember is that powders
bum in proportion to the pressure at the
time. Anything that tends to raise pressure
also increases burning rate which uns pres-
sure. It is a cumulative thing (I abhor the
term ‘vicious circle’, holding there’s not a
vicious thing in a gun).
There’s a flare up when powder is
fired, pressure rises, the bullet moves, vol-
time in chamber and bore increases, and
finally it all settles down to burning up the
propellant remains and letting the gas ex-
pand behind in the wake of the slug. It
does sound simpler that way, but the com-
plexities have their effect.
TEMPERATURE
We've used the term temperature a few
times in these monographs. Those who
have noticed this might have wondered why
someone in discussing guns talked about
this, except as what might happen with a
hot load on a hot day. Yes, temperature
(hot). But we’re not here concerned wtih
those few degrees from 60°F to 95°F. If
they cause you any trouble with your loads,
you're overboard already.
We have just finished relating what is
the classic view of the rate of powder burn-
ing, and the equation is in terms of P, pres-
sure. There is little doubt that as the Sar-
rau equation relates to the actualities of
the burning of powders, it will correctly de-
fine what results may be expected. We
think it is posed in the wrong term. We
have just introduced the accepted relation:
PV=RT in this number.
Pressure and temperature have equiva-
lent effects, not having the same character-
istics. So T could be used in the Sarrau re-
lation as well as P, simply having a V/R or
R/V proportionality as the case might be.
A bit back we observed that any pressure
could be produced at low temperatures. In
guns this isn’t in sequence.
Shoot a gun and a hot primer flame
pierces the powder mass to set it aburning.
Combustion of powders means release of
energy. The reaction is rapid, heat pours
forth. And the emphasis is on heat alone.
What else happens is after this first fact and
basic event, the unleashing of heat. This is
indeed what goes on in every gun barrel,
every time it is fired.
I don’t believe for one minute that
pressure is what makes that powder burn-
ing rate go up. It is temperature, the hot
searing radiance of heat that does it. Any
increase in temperature in a gun bore with-
out other changes will raise pressure, and
if powder is still unburned will raise its
rate of combustion. It is degrees F that
make the stuff flash.
We're not proposing to re-write the
Sarrau equation. We don’t know of any
way to measure those temperatures. Our
point is to make you look at two forms of
force. ,Under dynamic conditions they re-
late ‘one way, in statics another. When it is
burning a powder the temperature, heat, is
MARCH 1965
BRUCE HODGDON, President and founder of B. E. HODGDON, INC., Shaw-
nee Mission, Kansas is the world’s largest supplier of surplus powders to reloaders.
His
well stocked 140 acre powder magazine assure American reloaders that there will be an
ample supply of popular and inexpensive powders available for many years to come.
dominant, even though it is convenient to
use the dynamic equivalent: pressure. While
I most certainly have not performed any
such experiment, it is probable that if an
extreme pressure were applied to a powder
charge at near absolute zero (-273°C) it
would be difficult to ignite and might burn
with a low yield.
Temperature, while harmful to gun
barrels, is a basic and necessary ingredient
of explosive gun loads. No charm of ice
will do. We need that hot flash of flame
bursting from primer to powder, and then
to bullet, finally a blaze at the muzzle. Hot
loads are indeed loaded with heat.
Powder Energy
The heat release of explosives and their
burning rates are entirely different proper-
ties. The energy (heat release) available
for any powder depends primarily upon its
chemistry. The actual amount is usually
checked by firing a sample of the powder
in a bomb calorimeter, a device that con-
tains the products of combustion and al-
lows the temperature increase of a known
mass to be measured. The energy is thus
reported in heat terms.
The test vessels used have an appre-
ciable internal volume, which will contain
enough air to supply oxygen for a more
complete burn-up of the powder fuel. A
cartridge case contains a little air, but an
amount that helps little to improve burn-up
of propellants. Evacuating the test bomb
would give a result dependent on the chem-
istry of the powder only, and actually closer
to what would happen in a gun.
To gain some idea of what powder
energies really are for each of the common-
er ones available to handloaders, we ran
some through a bomb calorimeter. We
have referred already to some of the result-
ant figures. We did not have vacuum
equipment in the lab where the tests were
made, so the bomb contained an amount of
air at atmospheric pressure. This would be
enough to increase the B. t. u. values we
noted by 200 to 300 per Ib. of powder.
Various powders of the same _ type
should still be comparable (and even firing
in vacuum would not be exactly right) to al-
MARCH 1965
low an evaluation of them. Double base
powders should show up somewhat better
in comparison to.single base ones when
tested in vacuum. Since many other fac-
tors have a major controlling effect upon
what really happens in the gun, these
values are comparative enough to help us
recognize differences and to see how pow-
der energy can affect loads.
The tabulation of powder energies
which follows are values for samples fired
in a bomb calorimeter filled with air at at-
mospheric pressure. All may be compared
on‘ this and the same basis, but the B. t. u.
per pound will be higher than you'll get in
your gun, and different than tests fired un-
der vacuum. Please remember this if you
see other figures elsewhere. The data
shown here is valid for the conditions of the
test, made with good and accurate equip-
ment.
Powder energy values listed are in
B. t. u. per pound of propellant. Multiply-
ing these figures by .1112 will give Foot
Pounds per grain, a value more useful if you
are calculating load efficiencies. A con-
version factor you may want is: One
B. t. u.=778.3 Ft. Lbs. ©
TABLE OF POWDER ENERGIES
B. T. U. Per Lb.
(Fired in Air)
ALCAN
AL5 1925
AL7 1950
AL8 1950
DuPont
5066 1975
4297 1860
4198 1815
3031 1820
4064 1860
4350 1865
German Flake
8 mm Salvage 1785
OLIN MATH.
Ball C 1680
295 HP 1890
Herculese
Bullseye 2460
Unique 2460
(3800) in 05
Herco 2090
2400 2065
HiVel No. 2 2025
Hodgdon
H240 1950
H570 1800
Norma
N200 1960
N201 1800
N203 1780
N204 1800
N205 1860
These figures are in B. t. u. per pound
of powder fired in a bomb calorimeter filled
with air, and will be 200 to 300 B. t. u.
higher than if fired in a vacuum, but still
comparative on an equal basis (repetition
we know, but just to be sure the test basis
is clear).
Fig. 1 Infinite slabs burning on both sides
have constant rate and area until consumed.
Fig. 2 Long thin tubes burn in and out as
the dotted lines show with slowly decreasing
rate.
Fig. 3. Lumps and spheres burn with de-
creasing surface and rate.
National Bench Rest Shooters Association, Inc.
NBRSA OFFICERS AND
DIRECTORS FOR 1965
Brunon Boroszewski, President
‘Chestnut Ridge Road
Orchard Park, New York
Area Code 716, TX4-4433
EASTERN REGION
Dr. A. H. Garcelon (Director)
133 State Street
Augusta, Maine
MAyfair 2-1711
Gerald Arnold (Deputy)
HD #2
Gillett, Pa. 16925
Phone: Bently Creek 717 LY6-4085
George E. Kelbly (Deputy)
4N. Hickin Ave.
Rittman, Ohio
Area Code 216, 925-1501
GULF COAST REGION
J. L. Bonner
P. O. Box 606
Area Code 817, 725-4146
Cross Plains, Texas 76443
MID-CONTINENT REGION
L. F. Carden (Vice-President)
5022 Waverly
Kansas City 4, Kansas
Area Code 913, AT9-6739
MISSISSIPPI VALLEY REGION
Arthur M. Freund
1038 Hornsby Avenue
St. Louis, Missouri 63147
Area Code 314, EV8-2718
NORTH CENTRAL REGION
Walt C. Siewert
Box 749
Custer, South Dakota
NORTHWEST REGION
Raymond G., Speer
925—7th Street
Lewiston, Idaho
Area Code 208, SH3-6135
SOUTHWEST REGION
John B. Sweany
4498 Silverado Trail N.
Calistoga, California 94515
WH2-6633
Secretary-Treasurer
Bernice E. McMullen
607 West Line Street
Minerva, Ohio 44657
Area Code 216, 868-6132
NBRSA MEMBERSHIP DUES:
Individual annual dues $6.00 (includes
magazine subscription for membershi
term). Associate member (wife or husband,
son or daughter under 18 years of age, of
member in good standing—no magazine)
$2.50. Life membership $75.00. Annual
club affiliation fee $10.00.
PRESIDENT’S CORNER
I have just completed and forwarded
to the holders a series of Worlds Record
certificates. In a separate article, you will
find a listing of current records. It would
be most helpful if the club members would
keep this issue on their ranges. Having this
information handy would help speedy recog-
nition of possible records. It would guar-
antee immediate authenticiation and prompt
forwarding for determination. Thus the
record measuring would be speeded up.
The Eastern Region meeting set the
Open Bench Gun National Championships
for August 28, 29, 30, 31 at the Council
Cup Range, Wapwallopen, Pa. The Var-
mint and the Sporter Championships will be
held at the Pine Tree Range, Johnstown,
N. Y. on September 3, 4, 5.
Separately we are reporting a correc-
tion to the amended rules as printed last
month, Please note this correction.
10
At the directors’ meeting we learned
some competitors were unfamiliar with pro-
test procedures. If in a given situation, the
ruling of a range officer on the existing facts
is unjust in your judgment you have a right
to protest. The rules for initiating a protest
and handling are covered in the new rule
book. If you have some doubt, while at the
range, consult the range officer or referees
for clarification. Remember as a competitor
you owe it to yourself to be familiar with the
rules. Get a copy of the rule book, famil-
iarize yourself with its provisions. In this
way you help yourself, the match officials
and the bench-rest game.
Cordially,
Brunon V. Boroszewski
CORRECTION TO RULE CHANGES
Following is the finally corrected word-
ing of Section I: :
“B” Definitionsx-2 BENCH REST
Rifle—Any rifle having a barrel 18 or more
inches long, measured from the face of the
bolt to the muzzle, and having a safe man-
ually and mechanically operated firing
mechanism.
Note: For minimum barrel length the
legal method of measurement from face of
the bolt shall be employed, but for taper the
front of the receiver ring shall be the meas;
urement base.
AND
Section III, Tournaments.
“G” Varmint and Sporter Rifles: Tour-
naments for Heavy Varmint Rifles, Light
Varmint Rifles and Sporter Rifles shall be
fired with sand bag front rests, which may
be supported on a pedestal which shall not
coact with the sand-bag to restrain recoil or
form a guiding means, and a rear rest, com-
prising a sand-bag supporting the rifle be-
tween the rear of the pistol grip and the toe
of the buttstock.
EASTERN REGION
WINTER MEETING REPORT
(Dates and locations for 1965 NATIONALS)
By George E. Wyatt, Jr., Sec’y
Record turnouts for the 1965 national
championship matches in all classes are an-
ticipated as a result of the action of the
Eastern Region in scheduling the matches
back-to-back within a nine-day period. The
match dates were set at the Eastern Region’s
annual mid-winter meeting which was held
Jan. 23 and 24 at Rochester, N. Y.
The National Unrestricted Rifle Cham-
pionship match was awarded to the Council
Cup Range by vote. The match will be
held from Saturday through Tuesday, Au-
gust 28 through 31.
The National Championship Matches
for Heavy Varmint, Light Varmint and
Sporter Classes will be held the following
Friday through Sunday, Sept. 1 through 3 at
the Pine Tree Range at Johnstown, N. Y.
The two ranges are about 250 miles
apart and the scheduling will permit shoot-
ers two full days to drive from the Council
Cup Range at Wapwallopen, Pa., to Johns-
town. The trip actually will take about six
hours leaving time for sight-seeing along the
way.
The schedule also will give competitors
shooting in the national championship
matches an opportunity to get set up at the
Johnstown range and spend a day in prac-
tice and becoming familiar with range con-
ditions.
The back-to-back scheduling system
was viewed as the best available compro-
mise when all of the national matches are
scheduled in one region. Eastern Region
members expressed the strong feeling, how-
ever, that the national matches should be
split between east and west each year and
alternated so that competitors are compelled
to make only one major trip a year.
The 1965 Heavy Varmint, Light Var-
mint and Sporter National Championship
Matches had been awarded to the Johns-
town club in previous actions by the
NBRSA Board of Directors and the Eastern
Region.
There were 44 (Mary Hollidge, Olive
Walker) members at the Rochester meeting
with several coming from more than 300
miles away to attend. The meeting sessions
which started at 9 Saturday moming and
continued to noon on Sunday were held in
Rochester’s new Midtown Towers Hotel lo-
cated atop the Midtown Plaza skyscraper
shopping and business mall.
Other key actions taken by the Eastern
Region members included adoption of a res-
olution requesting NBRSA officers and di-
rectors to investigate the establishment of a
new “no holds barred” Experimental Rifle
Class, in place of Unlimited Class.
The resolution was adopted unanimous-
ly and would have the officers and directors
make a study and present their findings in
Precision Shooting for comment by the gen-
eral membership. It was Some ulated in
the resolution that action might be taken on
the establishment of such a class at the 1965
Board of Directors meeting.
Under promotional activities, the mem-
bers authorized the expenditure of $100 in
Eastern Region funds for NBRSA promotion-
al pamphlets to be distributed by the
NBRSA secretary-treasurer. The members
also authorized NBRSA President Brunon
V. Boroszewski to spend approximately $300
in Eastern Region funds to pay for a mem-
bership application coupon and _ advertise-
ment in the National Rifle Assn. Magazine,
The American Rifleman.
Crawford H. Hollidge was named chair-
man of a committee to set up an NBRSA ex-
hibit or information center at the NRA an-
nual meeting in Washington. Eastern Re-
gion members made voluntary contributions
totalling $310 to underwrite the cost of the
project.
While no vote was taken, general
agreement was expressed after lengthy dis-
cussion that 1965 matches should be shot
under the barrel dimension rule for heavy
and light varmint and sporter rifles adopted
at the 1964 Board of Directors meeting at
Tulsa.
NBRSA President Boroszewski who at-
tended the Rochester meeting explained that
no vote was in order since the rule has been
established for the 1965 season. He pointed
out that if experience during the season fur-
nishes evidence that the rule should be
changed the matter can be reviewed at the
1965 Board of Directors’ meeting.
The Eastern Region members com-
mended President Boroszewski for his hand-
ling of members’ letters on the barrel dimen-
sion rule in the January issue of Precision
Shooting by collecting them in: an objective
article rather than publishing each letter in
full. The members voted to urge the Presi-
dent to continue this practice.
Eastern Region Director Dr. Alonzo H.
(Doc) Garcelon presided at all sessions with
the assistance of Deputy Directors George E.
Kelbly and Gerald Arnold.
TOO LATE FOR EXHIBIT
AT NRA SHOW
Eastern Region Director, D. A .H. Gar-
celon, reports that it was found too late
to obtain space for the proposed National
Bench Rest Shooters Association exhibit dur-
ing the National Rifle Association Annual
meetings in Washington, D. C. in late
March.
The NBRSA is reported to have been
way down on the list of those who applied
too late for space in the limited facilities of
the exhibition space.
MARCH 1965
THE ST. LOUIS BENCHREST
RIFLE CLUB
EXTENDS TO ALL SHOOTERS OUR
MOST CORDIAL INVITATION TO VISIT
AND COMPETE IN ALL OUR MATCHES
DURING THE COMING MATCH SEA-
SON. ALL REGISTERED SHOOTS ARE
A WEEKEND AFFAIR WITH MATCHES
IN AT LEAST THREE CLASSES. THIS
WILL MAKE YOUR TRIP’ TRULY
WORTHWHILE. OUR EIGHTEEN
BENCH RANGE WITH COVERED FIR-
ING LINE IS ONE OF THE FINEST IN
THE COUNTRY. SOME OF AMERICA’S
TOP NAME SHOOTERS ARE AMONG
OUR REGULAR COMPETITORS. OUR
SHOOTING CONDITIONS PERMIT OUR
AGGREGATES TO BE AMONG THE
BEST POSTED ANYWHERE. TROPHIES
AWARDED FOR EACH CLASS AS WELL
AS SEASON TROPHIES. RESERVA-
TIONS MADE ON REQUEST AT NEAR-
BY MOTELS.
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1965 BENCH REST MATCHES
EASTERN REGION
Augusta, Ohio: April 10 and 11 (Unre-
stricted and Heavy Varmint); July 3 and 4
(Unrestricted and Heavy Varmint); Septem-
ber 18 and 19 (Eastern Region Unrestricted
Rifle Championship). Reed’s Run _ Rifle
Range, P: O. Box 66, Augusta, Ohio.
Staunton, Virginia: April 24 and 25 (Unre-
stricted Bench Rifle). Stonewall Rifle &
Pistol Club, c/o J. D. Perry, 409 Du Pont
Ave., Staunton, Virginia.
Easton, Ohio: May 8 and 9 (Unrestricted
Bench Rifle—300 meters); May 29 and 30
(Ohio State Championship, Unrestricted
Bench Rifle and Heavy Varmint); July 17
and 18 (Eastern Region Varmint and Sporter
Championships). Chippewa Rifle Club,
Inc., S. A. Buchtel, Sec’y, 210 W. Chestnut
St:, Wauseon, Ohio.
Wapwallopen, Pa.: May 12 and 13 (Un-
restricted Bench Rifle and Heavy Varmint);
June 26 and 27 (Unrestricted and H. V.);
August 28, 29, 30 and 31 (National Cham-
pionships, Unrestricted Bench Rifle). Coun-
cil Cup Rifle Range, c/o Robert W. Hart,
332 Montgomery St., Nescopeck, Pa.
Fassets, Pa.: June 5 and 6; July 24 and 25
(Pennsylvania State Championship); October
2 and 3 (All Light and Heavy Varmint and
Sporter classes). South Creek Rod and Gun
Club, c/o Gerald Arold, Sec’y, R. D. #2,
Gillett, Pa.
Johnstown, N. Y.: June 12 and 13 (Unre-
stricted Bench Rifle, Heavy and Light Var-
mint classes); September 3, 4 and 5 (Nation-
al Championships, Heavy and Light Varmint
and Sporter classes). Pine Tree Rifle Club,
Inc., c/o Edward J. Sweeney, 501 North
Market St., Johnstown, New York.
Canton, Ohio: June 19, July 12, August 7,
September 25 (All Heavy Varmint class),
Canton-McKinley Rifle Club, c/o R. H.
Johnson, 3118 11th St. S. W., Canton, Ohio.
MISSISSIPPI VALLEY REGION
St. Louis, Mo.: April 10 (Heavy Varmint
& Sporter—10 A. M. & 4 P. M.) and April
11 (Light Varmint--9 A. M.); May 8
(Sporter & Heavy Varmint—10 A. M. and
4 P. M.) and May 9 (Unrestricted Bench
Rifle, Open and Limited—9 A. M.); June 26
(Unrestricted Bench Rifle O. & L. 10 A. M.
and Light Varmint 4 P. M.) and June 27
(Heavy Varmint—9 A. M.); July 18 (Hunting
Rifle, not reg.—10 A. M.); July 25 (Varmint
Hunters, not reg.—10 A. M.); September 12
(Hunting Rifle—10 A. M.); September 26
(Varmint Hunters—10 A. M.). Miss. Val-
ley Regional Championships, October 2
(Light Varmint and Unrestricted Bench
Rifle, O. & L.—8 A. M. and 1 P. M.) and
October 3 (Heavy Varmint and Sporter—
MARCH 1965
NATIONAL BENCH REST SHOOTERS ASSOCIATION RECORDS
(As of February 1, 1965)
NOTE: At the 1962 Directors’ meetings held at Tulsa, Oklahoma, it was moved, seconded
and passed to recognize records in both restricted
The existing records
unrestricted benchrest rifle.
(RE) and unrestricted (UN) classes of the
had to be broken and the effective date
was January 1, 1963. Sam Clark’s 300 meter 5-shot group record has been broken for the
unrestricted rest class, but will still be listed until broken by a restricted class competitor.
The same holds for record listing of Ferris Pindell for the individual 10-shot group at
100 yards.
At the 1964 Directors’ meetings at Tulsa, ¢
yard-300 meter aggregates were opened up in all classes of competition.
the 300 meter course of fire and the 200
Targets fired at
the Chippewa (Ohio) range in 1963 had been held up for measurement until this had been
cleared.
Bernice McMullen, Sec’y, NBRSA
UNRESTRICTED BENCH REST RIFLES
Five shot groups
Course of fire Score Competitor Where fired Date
100 yards .0650” Harold Zeiser Johnstown, N. Y. 8/30/58
200 yards .2383” William B. Kerr Altoona, Pa. 8/9/59
300 meters .6735” Samuel Clark, Jr. DuBois, Pa. 1950
300 meters (UN) .6651” Clyde Yockey Chippewa, Ohio 6/21/63
Ten shot groups
100 yards .1566” Ferris Pinedl Richmond, Ind. 8/11/62
100 yards (UN) 1430” Allen Bench Seattle, Wash. 8/15/64
200 yards .3003” David Walker Richmond, Ind. 10/21/62
300 meters .9175” Omar Rinehart DuBois, Pa. 8/30/57
Five shot aggregates (in minute of angle)
100 yards 1973 L.S. Glenn Reed’s Run, Ohio 7/19/58
200 yards .2602 Clyde Yockey Staunton, Va. 10/8/60
100 and 200
yard agg. .2873 Homer Culver Staunton, Va. 7/27-28/57
300 meters (RE) .5949 Paul Gottschall Chippewa, Ohio 6/21/63
300 meters (UN) .6295 _E. L. Beecher Chippewa, Ohio 6/21/63
200 yard and ;
300 meter agg. (RE) .4845 Paul Gottschall Chippewa, Ohio 6/21/63
200 yard and 300
meter agg. (UN) 5221 ~~ E. Scafuri Chippewa, Ohio 6/21/63
Ten shot aggregates (MOA)
100 yards .2289 Al Roberts Richmond, Ind. 8/11/62
200 yards 2496 E. Walker Richmond, Ind. 8/11/62
100 and 200 yd.
N. M. C. cet .2563 Al Roberts Richmond, Ind. 8/11/62
300 meters (RE) 8302 George Kelbly Chippewa, Ohio 6/21/63
300 meters (UN) .8489 George Clarke, Jr. Chippewa, Ohio 6/21/63
200 yd. and 300
bia agg. (RE) .7103 ~~ Brunon Boroszewski Chippewa, Ohio 6/21/63
200 yd. and 300
er agg. (UN) .7796 George Clarke, Jr. Chippewa, Ohio 6/21/63
LIGHT VARMINT RIFLE
Five shot groups
100 yards 1629” J. D. Richardson Abilene, Texas 8/8/64
200 yards .3530” Parker Rollins St. Louis, Mo. 8/9/63
Five shot aggregates (MOA)
100 yards .3046 Harold Campau Wapwallopen, Pa. 8/10/62
200 yards 4430 Dave Hall St. Louis, Mo. 8/9/63
100 and 200
yard agg. .3832 Harold Campau Wapwallopen, Pa. 8/10/62
HEAVY VARMINT RIFLE
Five shot groups
100 yards .1006” Lloyd Bottoms Tulsa, Okla. 7/20/63
200 yards 2625” Omar Rinehart Dryden, N. Y. 8/6/61
Ten shot groups
100 yards .2953” Raymond Novak Detroit, Mich. 4/20/58
200 yards .7996”. Bruce Pheasant Buffalo, Wyo. 7/19/59
Five shot aggregates (MOA)
100 yards .2189 Lynn Hunt Fassett, Pa. 7/12/64
200 yards 3054 Tom Gillman Tulsa, Okla. 7/18/64
100 and 200
Yard agg. .3199 Nolan Jackson Hot Springs, Ark. 7/27/63
SPORTER RIFLE
Five shot groups
100 yards :1707” H. B. Regan Abilene, Texas 6/27/64
200 yards 3720” Crawford H. Hollidge Dryden, N. Y. 8/6/61
Five shot aggregates (MOA)
100 yards .3695 Dave Hall Fassett, Pa. 7/12/64
200 yards .3950 Dave Hall St. Louis, Mo. 8/9/63
100 and 200
yard agg. 4787 Dave Hall St. Louis, Mo. 8/11/63
9 A. M. & 1 P.M.). Bench Rest Rifle Club
of St. Louis, Larry Kuenz, Sec’y, 2912 Lin-
coln, St. Louis, Mo. 63121.
GULF COAST REGION
Abilene, Texas: May 29 (Unrestricted
Bench Rifle) and May 30 (Heavy Varmint
class); July 17 (Sporter class) and July 18
(Light Varmint class). West Texas Sports-
man’s Club, c/o John D. Richardson, 2660
Rountree, Abilene, Texas.
NEW BENCHREST RECORD
For making his new 100 yard 10-shot
group record of .1430 inch with Benchrest
Rifle, Unrestricted rests, at Seattle, Wash.,
August 15, 1964, Allen Bench of Yakima,
Wash. shot a .222 in Hart barrel on Weber
action with Unertl 20X scope. His load was
23% grains Ball-C with Speer bullets and
CCI Magnum primers.
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12
REAMER RINGS
By Jesse M. Grigg
The ordinary twist drill leaves a spiral
mark on the wall of the hole it makes. The
tapered chamber reamer which enlarges one
end of a rifled bore to accept the .22 LR
cartridge leaves spiral markings, maybe
broken and irregular ones, in both the cylin-
der part and in the tapered throat of the
chamber. That the presence of such rings
is the rule rather than the exception is
evinced by fact that eight .22 LR cham-
bers examined by me had them. In one
which I split endwise with a saw the throat
surface was finely corrugated like that of a
filed flat surface, though the bore itself ap-
peared bright and smooth.
In other than finish also the wall sur-
face in the chamber throat differs radically
from that in the bore proper. In the bore
all the marks of the rifling cutter and all the
scratches made by emery in the lapping run
parallel to bullet motion. In the chamber
throat the reamer marks run crosswise to
bullet motion, and so correspond to the
teeth of a file. Moreover, as regards ten-
dency to lead, there is another vast differ-
ence; for in the throat the bullet bears on
this file-like surface with pressure while it is
being swaged to bore dimensions.
An idea of what scuffing occurs in the
throat is had if you draw a lead bullet across
the steel surface of any hand tool that has
been finished with a grinding wheel. When
the movement is in the direction of the
grinder marks no trace of lead is left. When
the motion is crosswise over the marks a dis-
tinct line is written in lead. So, as similar
causes produce similar effects, likely a coat-
ing of lead is left by the bullet as it passes
under pressure through the chamber throat.
Even if the throat were smooth enough
to preclude abrasion, a bullet would still be
deformed as its successive section diameters
are in turn sized to those of the bore. De-
pending on bullet diameter, groove diame-
ter, and taper. in the chamber throat, the
bearing surface may be sized downward as
much as one or two thousandths while the
wee is moving forward one-sixteenth of an
inch,
If the bore is a tight one and the throat
is rough, the thesis that leading occurs pos-
sibly may be supported by observation.
Clean the bore, chamber and extract a
round, and the marking may be only the
prints of the lands. Now fire 20 or more
rounds and, without cleaning, chamber an-
other round for examination. If the bullet
appears scuffed in places where this appear-
ance was not apparent before, and if under:
a good glass the bright places between
prints of the lands show score marks parallel
to bullet motion, then the throat is tearing
lead. Incidentally, if you repeat this ex-
periment with different rifles whose groove
diameters are known to differ, or repeat
with different lots of ammunition, you may
find that the tighter the bullet fit the more:
the scuffing and leading.
However, it is impossible to judge
wholly by appearance. In addition to shap-
ing and sizing down of the bullet to the
rifling, the throdt has also the function of
rigidly supporting the bullet in such a man-
ner that the explosion cannot impart a tip
to its axis. Therefore brightness alone on
the chambered round is not necessarily a
fault provided that the surface has under-
gone identical changes at all diametrically
opposite places. But scoring, as evinced by
parallel lines running parallel to forward
motion is a serious fault, for it indicates a
gous ines which may cause the throat to
ead.
The direct result of throat leading is a
form of bullet deformation which is irregu-
lar. Irregular deformation of bullets and
the use of irregularly formed ones were
proved over and over by Dr. Mann to be the
causes of all inaccuracy which originates in
MARCH 1965:
the barrel when rifle and load are well de-
signed and other factors remain constant
from shot to shot. Owning both a tight
barrel and a loose one, I have lately seen
this deformation thesis proved. The loose
barrel groups better than the tight one, even
with small-size bullets.
Moreover, I have seen absolute proof
that chamber rings, at least in the abnormal
case, are detrimental to accuracy. A new
match rifle acquired by me some years ago
had such a rough spiral in the chamber
throat that it would seldom keep 20 shots in
the 10-ring between cleanings. My diag-
nosis of the trouble was confirmed when the
factory replaced without charge to me, not
only the barrel, but just about everything
else excepting the stock and serial number.
However, the purpose here is to deal,
not with the extreme, but with what perhaps
is the ordinary case of chamber rings. I
introduce the subject by saying that, in the
ast year, I have shot above my par, this
is partly to bearing down hard on the fol-
low-through, and partly to an inordinate
amount of clicking. Because with iron I
could call my shots, with iron I developed
the habit of taking a click to the indica-
tion of only one shot that was out of the
group. But what seemed remarkable, many
and many times I observed that one click
per shot, even up to my limit of four, did
not even move the off-center point of im-
pact. In this event I might go to the
bench, put a wire brush through the cham-
ber and find the point of impact restored
to normal. But to be honest I admit that
just as often the wire brush made no
change.
Nonetheless I was convinced that some-
thing was wrong. In the search for causes
wind change had to be ruled out because
the direction of shift might be any angle of
the clock. Gradual heat change in the at-
mosphere also was considered as a possible
explanation. But finally, having so many
times observed that one cause, whatever it
was, seemed to be cumulative in effect, I
was compelled to believe that building up
of lead in the chamber throat shot by shot
was the trouble source in this case.
I had other troubles, too. Early in the
season in practice shooting I had been
plagued by tipped bullets, which trouble
very nearly disappeared of its own volition
when a particular carton of ammunition was
exhausted. I believed that physical damage
to the ammo before it had reached my
hands was the cause of excessive tipping.
But still the bullet prints on the target were
not quite satisfactory, and the need of con-
tinual clicking still was apparent.
These indications caused me to suspect
that the throat had become worn or burned
out of round. I set the barrel back one
turn on the thread without result of notice-
able improvement. Finally, when only two
more tournaments remained, I adopted the
custom of carefully lubricating the bullet of
each round with Rig, and putting a wire
brush through the chamber throat at the end
of every 20-shot stage. These measures
paid off to extent that I picked up four
awards on iron-sight day at our State, and
at the next tournament picked up two more
with iron, one for winning the 50-yard with
clean targets.
Since then, convinced that throat lead-
ing causes the point of impact to change, I
have done a lot of experimenting, using two
lots of Rem. ammo ,and using three barrels
either for test or alteration. Of the ammo
the bullets in one lot were of about the cur-
rent average size of match bullets; in the
other the bullets were rather small, but very
good shooting. Of the three barrels all at
one time or another had been cut off and
set back, this work on two of them having
been done by me. One of the set-back by
me barrels, deemed my match barrel, was
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Another in this test was a 52 barrel
which had been given to me by Phil. Its
groove diameter was very near the allowable
maximum, yet by its fine grouping with
both lots of ammo it easily proved the thesis
that a loose barrel groups better than a
tight one because the bullet is less deformed
in getting into the bore.
The third barrel was a Remington 37
that had been given to me after the barrel
of my 52-B got ringed some years ago.
When acauired this 37 barrel had the tight-
est bore that I had ever tinkered with. Be-
sides it had in it a gummy deposit, maybe a
residue of Lasmok powder, that nothing
known to me would dissolve. Emery just
pushed the stuff around in there. In final-
ly getting it to a uniform diameter I worked
16 lead laps. and the present diameter,
.2213”, is still under the quoted allowable
minimum... To the credit of Remington,
however, it must be said that the tight 37
barrels were intended to be that way, and
were chambered in such a manner that the
rate of bullet sizing down maybe was slower
than the rate in chambers which printed on
two bullet bands. On this score the 37 bar-
rel with factory chambering possibly was
less susceptible to throat leading that is due
to chamber rings.
However, my homemade reamer, pat-
terned after the usual design, chambered
the tight 37 so that the lands would print
faintly. In such a chamber the bullet
would be sized down nearly .0015” in one-
sixteenth inch of .bullet travel. Logically
therefor the chamber throat would lead if
rings were present. Accordingly, because
this barrel had already been set back 1%”
twice, first for fitting to the 52-B action,
and again because of two worn but not ad-
jacent lands, and further because the tight-
ness of the bore was itself a challenge, this
was the barrel chosen for further mutilation
in the proposed experiments.
Naturally the work in connection with
it was an attempt to produce a smooth
chamber throat. I began with the effect
of a polishing operation on a smoothly-filed
surface of untempered steel. Thereby it
was discovered that half an hour of vigor-
ous rubbing one spot with a patch coated
with oil and powdered rottenstone, though it
did not much change the apnearance of the
spot, it did level the sharp ridges of the faint
file marks so that a bullet dragged crosswise
over them did not write. The amount of
metal removed was of course not enough to
measure, because rottenstone cuts almost
none at all. In fact it is fine enough to
polish plastic sight inserts or even put a
shine on the finish of an automobile.
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Possibly the discovery of the value of
rottenstone in chamber finishing is the most
notable achievement in the course of the
present undertaking. At any rate I was so
much impressed that thenceforth, at conclu-
sion of whatever had been done to a cham-
‘ber, I gave this treatment to the throat.
The operation itself consisted merely of
putting on the knob of a suitable cleaning
rod a patch saturated with oil and pow-
dered rottenstone, then working the patch to
and fro in short strokes just where it would
slightly bind in the throat. No harm could
be done if the rod was not allowed to rub
on the chamber wall. To avoid rubbing I
used a cleaning rod guide if the barrel was
in an action. However, though no harm
was done, the prints of the lands were not
as conspicuous afterward because the ream-
er rings on the beveled lands were dulled so
that brightness was less apparent in the
prints.
Regarding the more difficult labors
which were undertaken I had a notion at the
start that the rings in a throat could be
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37 Groove Diam.
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CHAMBERKFD 22 LR BULLET
(Not to Scale )
ironed out with pressure. Accordingly I fin-
ished a length of drill rod with pilot and
taper to fit respectively the bore and cham-
ber throat. In use this tool was wedged in
the throat with the tap of a light hammer
and freed with the tap of another rod poked
in at the muzzle, after which the tool was
given a quarter turn and the driving repeat-
ed until two complete turns had been made.
After the throat had then been given the
oil and rottenstone treatment, a sulphur cast
showed that the remaining marks were so
faint that they could be seen only a double
magnifier.
But I had no enthusiasm over this
achievement. The method was impractical
because the driver tool could be used only
in the chamber for which it had been made,
and the making required Prussian blue fit-
ting both before and after the tempering.
So I set the barrel back another turn on the
thread,. put the homemade reamer in again,
stopping it very slightly short of a full cham-
ber, and resolved to have a try at chamber
lapping.
I had reasons to believe that such lap-
ping could be successfully done. Emery, or
even a sharp file, cuts very slowly, reducing
a surface at a rate which perhaps is propor-
tional to the length of stroke and the pres-
sure per unit of surface. In the throat the
pressure and the length of stroke would be
so nearly negligible that a lot of tinkering
would hardly ruin the chamber. Even if it
did I had only to set the barrel back again.
A method of procedure was evolved by
experiment with a spare chamber. As used
in the 37 barrel I chose live rounds from the
lot which had large bullets, and with a
sharp knife pared off the two bullet bands
in the region where prints are made. The
purpose in paring was to avoid lapping off
the tops of the lands which could do no
good if it did no harm. Besides all the
scoring due to chamber rings, and as well all
the swaging to groove diameter occurs in
Se region previous to the place where prints
egin.
To keep the abrasive off the brass as
much as possible I bent in a length of small
wire a right-angle, one leg of it being of
measured length, and with it carefully ap-
plied a drop of oil and emery at the forward
end of the throat. The spreading part
would take care of itself only too well, es-
pecially if too much oil were used. The to
and fro motion was imparted by carefully
pushing the cartridge forward with the fin-
ger until the faint bind of the throat stop-
ped it, then prying it back about 1/16” with
a_knife blade, screwdriver, or finger nail.
The purpose of light pressure in the for-
ward stroke was to reduce the bullet solely
with emery until at length the rim would
touch its normal seat. Though the round
was a live one, no danger of explosion was
there as long as the rim was not pinched
enough to deform it. Random scratching of
the wall was avoided by freeing the cham-
ber of grit by pushing oiled patches through
from the muzzle after a cartridge had re-
moved for inspection or replacement.
After maybe an hour spent with oil
and emergy I proceeded to use oil and rot-
tenstone on a cleaning rod patch. The lat-
ter operation was continued for about 45
minutes, after which I could find no bright-
ness anywhere on a chambered round of the
small-bullet lot, provided that the barrel was.
clean. Absence of brightness indicated an
absence of friction which might cause lead
build-up.
Having succeeded thus far with the
tight 37 barrel, I was emboldened to try the
same in my match rifle, the 52-C whose
replacement barrel, however, did not have
in it the original chamber. In 1958 I had
set the barrel back 9/16” because the cham-
ber size was such that only soft brass would
expand enough to fill it and grip the wall;
and, has been stated, I had set it back one
turn more only a few months previously.
In preparation of the rounds for lapping
I again trimmed off lead in the region
where prints are made, and on one round I
trimmed back to 1/32” of the end of brass.
After much working to and fro, which I am
sure did not remove more than a trace of
metal, I made a sulphur cast to learn the:
appearance of the surface.
The cast was an unusually good one.
Under a glass it even showed the faint ring
which is caused by wear on either side the
identification ring which appears on the
brass case of a .22 LR match cartridge. On
the taper of the throat it showed a band of
faint convolutions, these uniformly spaced
like the convolutions of a very fine machine
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thread. The width of the band was about
1/32” and it was fairly well centered_be-
tween the end of brass and the place where
lands start to print. Compared with the
rings on a cast of the same chamber which
had been made right after the barrel had
been set back some months before, these
lines were very faint.
However, to further dull their ridges, I
worked in the throat a cleaning rod patch
coated with Winchester Rust Remover, giv-
ing it only half a dozen passes. Then I
coated another patch with oil and powdered
rottenstone, and for half an hour worked it
where I could feel the bind in the throat.
On the sulphur cast which followed the
rings were now hard to find, even under a
double glass. In fact they were wholly in-
significant compared with the many deep
scratches in the bore proper, the latter lines
of course running parallel to bullet motion,
and not necessarily being lead catchers.
These in the bore proper may have been
caused by grit adhering to chambered_bul-
lets, or they may have been caused by
primer glass, for only through the past six
years had I used glass-free Remington ammo
in this barrel.
I now had three barrels, a tight, a
medium, and a loose one in any of which I
could chamber a round of the small-bullet
ammunition and discover no trace of scuff-
ing when the barrel was clean. However, a
round of the large-bullet ammunition would
come out of the chamber of the tight 37
barrel showing signs of its having been
swaged.
MARCH 1965
Proof that the chambers were satisfac-
tory required that they also withstand two
other tests. First they must deliver 40
good shots at the targets without need of
any sight adjustment which would indicate
leading in the chamber throat. Second, at
conclusion of the 40 shots, the rifle must
eject a chambered round whose bullet
showed no evidence of score marks.
The firing was to be done at 50 yards
outdoors, porne shooting with metallic sights
in the course of my usual practice shooting.
Because in prone shooting the trajectory is
close to earth I considered that shooting at
50 yards always proves more in the test of a
rifle than shooting at 100 yards because the
value of the score in 100 yard prone shoot-
ing is too much dependent on the freaks of
wind and mirage. :
The Teachout barrel, due to its large
groove diameter, had already been acquitted
on all three counts of the indictment. As
to the 52-C two times over the course got
two 400’s wihout need of abnormal clicking,
and the bullets of subsequently chambered
rounds met the inspection requirements. The
character of the tight 37 barrel was yet to
be determined.
At first with the 37 barrel I was
plagued with mechanical and meteorological
difficulties which had nothing to do with
the chamber. But finally, having run out of
alibis, I got a 400-32 with the large bullet
ammo.
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VARMINT
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Vel. 3312 fps
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6 MM. 87 GR.
41 grains 4350
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270 CAL. 100 GR.
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(Continued from Page Fifteen)
For this score I had taken only one
click, this for a change of wind strength.
As to the other count, more x’s in the sec-
ond 20 than in the first indicated an absence
of throat leading. But a round chambered
for inspection at conclusion of the 40 shots
had to be pried out with a screwdriver point.
This indicated a remaining tightness in the
throat; moreover the bullet surface, though
free of score marks, had the appearance of
having been swaged. However another
round, lubricated with Rig to lessen the fric-
tion, was pulled easily by the extractor, and
the extractor pulled all other trial rounds
after a patch wet with Hoppe’s had been
pushed through.
Because the extractor had failed to pull
that one round I lapped again, using three
more pared rounds, and pushing through
from the muzzle oiled patches whenever a
round was removed. At conclusion of the
lead lapping I worked a patch coated with
oil and rottenstone about 20 minutes.
That no damage had been done was
evinced by fact that I could still discover no
measurable change in the dimensions of a
chambered bullet. But I did discover that
a change had occurred. Now the bullet
surface of a chambered round of the small-
bullet lot had very nearly its original black
appearance, this indicating a low friction
drag. On a sulphur cast I could find
neither rings nor other marks on the throat
surface; although, as might be expected, on
the bore section were many scratches which,
owing to their longitudinal direction, were
not lead catchers. Since then I have found
only a couple of instances in which the ex-
tractor would not pull a loaded round after
40 shots, this occurring when the tempera-
ture was in the 30’s and the lubricant on
the brass had the white appearance of cold
tallow.
Though the rifle was grouping nicely I
was not long satisfied. Having undertaken
for sake of experiment I soon yielded to a
whim which I knew called for a lot of pains-
taking effort. This was making the gauges
and templet and cutting down with hand
grinder and abrasive stones a commercial
%” spiral reamer to the chamber reamer
whose most important particulars may be
gleaned from the accompanying figure.
The included angle in the throat cone is
only about 0 55’. Moreover in any .22 LR
chamber the lands may start to print only
where a cylinder of groove diameter would
intersect the throat cone provided that the
trace of this intersection touches the bullet
surface. Here this condition is non-existent
for a tight 37 barrel. So to make the lands
print the throat angle is relieved by a steep-
er one which starts at the third cannelure.
I believe that the same principle, though not
necessarily the same angles, was embodied
in the reamer that was used in factory cham-
bering of these barrels.
In addition to working the new reamer
in the experimental barrel, I lapped with
two pared rounds and worked a rottenstone
patch in the throat. The lapping roughened
the surface somewhat, but the rottenstone
did the reverse so that for smoothness the
surface of a chambered round is beautiful.
However, as I did not set the barrel back
again, the prints of the lands are difficult to
find. This is so because the lands them-
selves had been beveled by the former ream-
er. Nevertheless the smoothly tapered
throat uniformly supports the bullet on all
four bands so there is very little likelihood
of the explosion giving the bullet axis a tip.
The barrel groups, the extractor pulls, and a
chambered cartridge has no score marks
after 40 rounds.
Of the various conclusions resulting of
this study, one is that very few if any .22
LR chambers, if made with a reamer, are
wholly free of rings. Another is that the
loose barrel will group better than the tight
one if both are chambered so that the prints
of lands appear on two bullet bands. The
superiority of the loose barrel comes about
because there is less of deformation in the
sizing down, and therefore less of pressure
drag which might cause a throat to lead.
Further it has been discovered that
semi-polishing with oil and powdered rotten-
stone is a simple way of diminishing at least
the faults of chamber rings. Rottenstone is
available in hardware stores. The use of it
on a patch requires, not especial skill, but
only common sense. It removes no appre-
ciable amount of metal, and the chamber
can scarcely be harmed if the rod is not al-
lowed to wear the chamber wall, if also the
patch is allowed to touch only the ends of
the lands, if further the treatment is not
overdone, and finally if the bore is swabbed
before the rifle is fired. But even though
the treatment be prolonged the barrel might
not suffer as much in the long run as it
might from overuse of a wire brush.
The time that I spent working a rotten-
stone patch in that 37 barrel ran into hours.
Still, because I know that not every one is
careful in such things, I am reluctant about
recommending the trick for general use. I
do not want to feel responsible for damage
to some shooter’s barrel. But as to use of
emery in a chamber I do not hesitate to
strongly advise do not do it unless you know
quite well what you are doing. Too many
chambers are already oversize. But if you
do lap with emery destroy the used rounds
by squeezing out the bullets with suitable
pliers. Do not shoot them because damage
to the barrel might be caused by blowby.
Aside from smoothing the chamber
throat there is still another way of diminish-
ing the tendency toward leading. Addi-
tional lubrication, even as little as that pro-
vided by dipping the bullet nose in a sponge
that has been wetted with Hoppe’s lessens
the throat drag on a chambered bullet.
Many match shooters already are familiar
with this practice. For the 52-C and maybe
for other actions whose triggers are eventual-
ly rendered inoperative by Hoppe’s, gun oil
will substitute if a dry patch is infrequently
pushed into the chamber to prevent the wall
from becoming too slippery. But be aware
that if the patch is pushed clear through the
bore the firing of fouling shots again is ad-
visable.
Finally, after all that has been found,
it now seems that the presence of chamber
rings is one of the reasons why the .22 rim-
fire is the most temperamental of all target
rifles, past and present. Reamer rings could
have no effect in the breech-muzzle loading
rifles of the Schuetzen days. Almost as.
much immunity was had by the breech-
loading rifles of that era because bullets
were cast to fit the particular bore and likely
they burned black powder which obviated
the need of oversize bullets.
In this day of smokeless powder the
centerfire rifles also are exempt from throat
leading because their bullets are metal jack-
eted. But in .22 rimfire with smokeless the
bullets need to be oversize to fill the
grooves, and so they must be swaged, per-
haps over throat surfaces which are ridged
with rings. Add to this the fact that bore
and groove diameters vary from rifle to rifle,
and that for this reason likewise do their
chambers vary. Further, bullet dimensions
vary from lot to lot. So is it any wonder-
that the .22 LR is particular about its diet?
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Bob, I suspect that quite a number of
people would agree with your views—at
least privately. Camp Perry could be run
in the fashion which you describe by stag-
gering the schedule of operating personnel
for both range and stat office. It would re-
quire more personnel in the long run, but
not as many at any one time as are now
necessary. With an increased attendance
the increase in personnel could be absorbed
by the additional entry fees . . . Even some
of the hardiest competitors, in the prime of
their youth, will confess that the Nationals
now are an endurance contest.
Back to the gallery—Capt. Pres Ken-
dall went back home to Kentucky January
30-31 to win the First Derby City Open in
Louisville. The course of fire was 20 shots
4-positions, any sights, and the winning 788
aggregate would seem to indicate that the
National Outdoor Smallbore Position Champ
was devoting more attention to visiting with
his old friends than to his shooting. With
his father along, it is understandable that he
would enjoy his visit.
When the National Int’l Prone Cham-
pion drops a point prone at 50-ft. with
scope, however, there must be a good ex-
planation (alibi ?). Pres claims that he had
a little backlash in his spotting scope. But
Pres, let’s not confuse any tyros who might
take you seriously. Actually, he had placed
a circular weight on the muzzle for steadi-
ness, but it “backfired” by affecting the ac-
curacy of the rifle. (We are ignoring the
comments from You-Know-Who at USA
MTU). He fired a_ possible Sitting, 199
Kneeling, and dumped 10 points Standing.
The 54 competitors declared it a very
successful match, well-organized by John
Paskey, club secretary. Our friend, Lewis
Aker, was NRA Referee. Nice Blackinton
medals and a desk calendar to the winner
were awarded. Sectional champion Alden
E. Hills of Mt. Sterling, Kr., was runner-up
‘with 781. A Mr. Adams placed third with
the same score.
Indications are that Kentucky is form-
ing a very fine State Association, centering
around the live-wire Louisville Rifle & Re-
volver Club. The 6-point gallery range in
downtown Louisville was insulated (for heat)
by the junior club and the Boy Scouts.
Outdoors the Louisville R & R has 100-acres
south of the city. The range, which was
‘built only 5 years ago, is paid for and the
club has $3000 in the bank. It is a 50-point
covered firing line, where they shoot every-
thing up to 300-yds., with the butts against
‘a mountainside. Club president is Doug
Saunders.
‘Experiments And Experiences
(Continued from Page Seven)
Conclusion: Repeated “slanty” groups
‘are due to a simultaneous misjudgment of
-wind and mirage conditions. (A low load
ae changes would give the same ef-
fect.
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Target 7—Very Poor Group—Very
Bad Scatter:
A) Bullets, load, barrel, bedding, rests
or scope.
B) Get a new gun.
C) Bedding or very bad conditions.
D) Poor conditions, judgment or load.
~Something very wrong.
E) Rough conditions or gun just not
shooting.
F) Bad bullets, bedding, loading or
conditions. —
Conclusion: A poor gorup depends on
the conditions under which it was fired. If
calm, look for a barrel, bedding, load or bul-
let problem. If conditions were poor go
back to your loading bench and wait for bet-
ter weather later.
Target 8—“Two Groups”—Three in
one hole, two in another:
Scope mount or reticle trouble.
B) Bedding.
C) Changing conditions or bedding.
D) Mirage shifts.
E) Light changes,
loose base.
F) Scope mount trtoubles (return not
correct).
Conclusion: If you get “two groups”
more often than you'd like, look for scope
loose reticle or
or bedding trouble.
Target 9—Nice Tight Group (0.151”)
A) No obvious trouble.
B) Nothing wrong here.
C) Good.
D) Nothing wrong.
E) K
F) No trouble here, no criticism.
Conclusion: Get them all like this!
Target 10—Almost Perfect (0.071)
A) Buck fever group.
B) Come to the matches.
C) Good—beautiful!
D) Perfect.
E) Bravo—Perfecto. Five in there?
F) Very good.
Conclusion: Come to the matches and
join the NBRSA before your barrel wears
out.
COMBUSTION: If your powder charge is
too low, combustion will be incomplete and
you will get erratic ignition and primarily
vertical dispersion. If you shoot through a
thin piece of tissue paper hung about four
feet in front of the muzzle you can actually
see holes made by unburned powder gran-
ules, and in many cases catch unburned or
half burned granules in the paper. I took a
.222, Rem. with loads ranging from 7.0 gr. to
(Continued on Page Eighteen)
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The °. B LACK (Continued from Page Seventeen)
20.5 gr. 4198, shot through tissue, counted
the holes and unburned pellets, then esti-
Fl N IS H | | G U N i T mated the completeness of combustion.
Gr, 4198 Powder burned
7 86%
10 93%
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I doubt if combustion is ever complete,
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certainly not for 16 and 18 grains of 4198
PENTRATE cry- ina .222. The above tests were very crude,
stals, instructions and were not able to show much at the high-
and all equipment er loadings. I tried thin tar paper also with
needed. Write for little luck. Many of the unburned granules
of 4198 were their original length and
looked as though they had been split length-
wise.
MISCELLANEOUS ODDS. AND ENDS:
HEATBATH 1) A jacket length snap gauge similar
CORPORATION to the multiple case length gauges now
Springfield 1, Massachusetts available would be helpful. Occasionally a
slightly short jacket will not swage down to
details.
a small enough point hole, with subsequent
ejection trouble from the die. I would
guess that uniform length jackets would be
better than variable ones.
2) Take the static out of plastic pow-
der funnels by rubbing them on the inside
with a little powered graphite. The graph-
ite is conducting and will leak off static.
3) Lead is poisonous. Compounds of
lead are poisonous. Gasoline containing
lead is poisonous. Lead dust, scum, oxide,
scale or slag are not meant to be eaten.
Now don’t get excited. Just clean up the
bench, floor and especially your hands be-
fore smoking or eating and you can make
all the cores or cast bullets you want to
with no harm.
4) Why don’t we try to get bench rest
shooting into the Olympics? Shooters like
Gottschall, Rinehart, the Stolles, Culver, the
Harts and a dozen others could clobber all
competition!
THIS AND THAT
LEGAI. ADOPTED: For approximately a
year Browning has been chambering their
bolt-action rifle for the 22/250 cartridge,
one of the enduring and most popular wild-
cat .22 cal. cartridges, but ammunition was
still a handloading proposition. Now, Rem-
ington will be chambering their Model 700
rifles for the 22/250 and will be supplying
factory loaded ammunition for it. That
seems to make a legal adoption of this long
popular orphan cartridge. (This writer cer-
tainly hopes that Remington won’t try to
“improve” the 22/250 and mess it up as
ag did the 257 Roberts some thirty years
ago.
DESIRABLE CHANGE: The Remington
Model 700 in 222 Rem. Magnum with 20
inch barrel that I have had for two years is
a cute little trick and I kinda like it, but
I’ve wished for a longer barrel and bit heay-
ier rifle for this essentially varmint cartridge.
It must be that a good many others had the
same feeling, because now Remington is now
supplying the Model 700 with 24 inch bar-
rels for the 222, 222 Mag. and 22/250 cali-
bers. That seems a very desirable change.
CAN THEY TAKE IT? We_ wonder _ if
many of the people most liable to buy the
Remington Model 600 carbine in the new
350 Rem. Mag. caliber (hunters who do
little shooting other than what they may do
just before and during hunting season) will
be able to handle it well. Even though
some ounces of weight have been added, it
would seem that the recoil and muzzle blast
of this powerful new cartridge in the light
weight, short barreled rifle might not be any
help to a recoil sensitive person. For the
shooting-toughened hunter-rifleman who
does a lot of tramping after the larger big
game animals, it may be just what the doc-
tor ordered.
THE CUSTOMER IS ALWAYS_ RIGHT:
In addition to the Model 70, Winchester
now announces the availability of barreled
actions, only, for the Model 52D. Winches-
ter also announces special slug shooting bar-
rels for their Model 1200 (pump) and Model
1400 (auto) shotguns. Barrels are 22 inches
long and are equipped with regular rifle
open sights, front and rear (rifle sights look
odd on a shotgun barrel but they should be
practical for the purpose). The slug bar-
rels are interchangeable with shot barrels
for the appropriate model.
THE “INDIANS” ARE ON THE BALL:
If you don’t have the new SAVAGE catalog
do by all means send and get one from
SAVAGE ARMS, Westfield, Mass. 01085.
Their new items and changes are too numer-
ous to mention here and a number of them
are right interesting to riflemen. I’m prom-
ised a couple rifles that I requested for ex-
amination and testing and I'll report on
those after I am able to put them through
their paces.
Seems like Remington and Winchester
may consider P. S. too piddling to offer new
rifle-gun items for examination and _ test.
Mebbe they are right, but I won’t admit it.
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MORE ABOUT SINGLE SHOT
ACTIONS
By G. W. P. Swenson
I was very interested to see the note on
single shot actions in your January, 1965,
issue. Perhaps I could add a bit to this.
Most British single shot actions of the
Farquharson type were made in Belgium,
with the notable exception of the Webley &
Scott and Gibbs actions. The Gibbs actions,
of course, have the name on them, while the
Webley & Scott were generally manufac-
tured for use by small Gun Makers who bar-
relled them and used their own names.
However, the assembly and _ identification
marks on the actions identify them. Both
these actions are strong enough for any load
once the firing pin is properly bushed.
Jeffery and late model ‘Westley Rich-
ards actions, although made in Belgium, are
also first class, subject to the same modifica-
tions as above. The finish inside is not al-
ways so good, but does not, of course, af-
fect the operation.
Fraser actions are strong enough for
anything, but extraction is very poor. In
fact, the instructions with one of my .303
rifles recommend the use of vaseline on the
cartridges!!
The Aston action looks amply strong,
but the side walls are very thin.
The Field action had a great vogue be-
tween the decline of the Henry and_ the
adoption of the Farquharson as standard.
Being made on a semi-mass production basis,
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stocks which are the favorites of both
experienced hunters and target shoot-
L. B. ROTHSCHILD, Manufacturer, Dept. P.S. 3 4504 W. Washington Blvd., Los Angeles 16, Calif.
they were sold by many firms, including
Gibbs, whose price was 25% less for the
Field. This action is not as strong as it
looks, and had a bad reputation due to the
position of the firing pin which would con-
duct gas from pierced primers directly to the
eye.
The actions to steer clear of are the
early Westley Richards and the first two
models of the Deeley Edge. These actions
have an integral hammer and firing pin, and
the web at the breech block is very thin.
My Westley Richards rifle collapsed on fir-
ing several rounds of Hornet ammunition
after it had passed proof, and I have seen
another one which was made of steel in-
stead of iron, which cracked across the face
during proof, also chambered for Hornet.
In regard to Continental actions, I
would definitely watch out for cast receivers
and not use them. The Aydt and Tell actions
are definitely not suitable for magnum
loads. The so-called Steigle action has no-
toriously bad extraction, but is amply strong.
The Heeren action seems to me about the
most adoptable of the lot. The original
ones as made by Nagel & Menz of Germany,
come in two styles. One, the set trigger
model, and the other the English model, as
made up into Sporting Rifles by John
Wilkes, at the beginning of the century.
The newer models are made in Switzerland
and sold by Burcher and by Glaser. My
Wilkes action, after the firing pin was
bushed, was barreled for .264 Winchester
magnum and has proved to be amply strong.
In regard to extractors, the Gibbs rifles
were made for such calibers as the 30-06
and .318 W. R. Mine gave very good ex-
traction. I also had a .400 3-inch Westley
Richards converted to. 300 magnum by Mar-
tin Kruschitz, with excellent results. The
Heeren action though theoretically weak in
extraction, seems to work very well. I
have one in a .270 Winchester, and I have
seen many of these in Switzerland cham-
bered for the 7.5mm Swiss cartridge and
which are used continually for the “Sporting
Target” competitions. The set triggers on
the Heeren action are of the ordinary two-
lever type, and not as sensitive as the 4 and
5 lever set rifle triggers found on the Mar-
tini. All the Martinis that I have seen seem
to be amply strong, but extraction varies and
can be good to terrible.
To assess a single shot action:
1) Examine the receiver and check
that it is steel. Many of the first ones are
made of wrought iron, and of course there
are those which are cast.
2) Make sure that the side walls are
amply heavy.
3) Check that the block face is thick
enough. It generally is if there is a separ-
ate firing pin.
4) Have an expert bush the block face
and install a new firing pin. Directions as
given by Grant and Tedmon on the 44%
Stevens apply here.
Personally I would like some day to try
out the Guedes rifle which gives a camming
action. The trouble with all these rifles is
in getting the head space exactly correct,
and the block parallel with the back of the
chamber. If an action is manufactured I
think the most important detail would be to
supply this camming action.
5) Double extractors are always pref-
erable to single. The technique in getting
good extraction is to arrange the extractor
so that it gives a brisk tap to the case.
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