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Cooper Rifle Help!!! Single Shot??
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<blockquote data-quote="Trickymissfit" data-source="post: 772129" data-attributes="member: 25383"><p>let me tell you about those rimfires that Cooper sells. A close friend bought one for target shooting, and at the sametime another friend bought a Remington 40X. Both rifles were broken in the right way, and they must have went thru hundreds of boxes of ammo trying to find what shot and what didn't. I ended up with a lot of what they bought as it didn't work out for them. (all rimfires are that way). Tony's rifle came from the factory with a custom barrel (Kriefger or Shilen maybe) and a Jewell trigger in a very nice synthetic stock. Installed a nice Sightron scope on it (benchrest quality), and started winning matches all over the place. He drops by to tell me that on the following Saturday night he and the otherguy are going to shoot at the Borden matches that Bill Calfee and the boys do. Now you don't just go there with the idea of cleaning house! Tony planned on winning, and I knew better. But Tony either finished in 10th place or 13th place, and the guy with the 40x finished in 20th out of twenty spots. Needless to say it was a humbeling event for both of them. I was surprised Tony did so well. A couple weeks later he buys a Winchester 52D chamber reamer that was ground to Calfee's known spec. Did a barrel setback, and some minor stock work and major bolt work. The rifle comes in shooting very high twos and mid threes at fifty yards with Federal Olympic Gold Match ammo (the very best). Placed tenth down at Borden. He later comes up with the idea of installing a tuner on the barrel like everybody else uses down there. After a month of steady research I see how they work, and commence to design and build two slightly different ones (buy one, don't bother to build one!). After building it we figure out we have no idea how to mount it on the barrel without messing things up. I come up with a way, and we do it. He comes over to see me with a hand full of 50 yard targets he shot with the tuner installed. They all were right around .22" and many were in the .170" area. He goes back down to Borden for another beat down, and places fifth! In a Cooper! Calfee looked over the tuner very closely, and asked where it came from and just who made it (my head swole up). Tony tells him that we took the article he wrote in P.S. and followed all his instruction in ringing and slugging the barrel. The tuner was just our own design that we came up with. I sent Bill a set of drawings and he gave Tony sketches of a design that we needed to be looking at. I built two of them, but have no idea how well they worked as I have not talked to Tony in three years. To place fifth at Borden is doing something special. The rifles we shot against were all Calfee XP100 conversions and Anschutze with a couple Turbos and Harts in the mix. That's how good a Cooper rimfire target gun is!</p><p>gary</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Trickymissfit, post: 772129, member: 25383"] let me tell you about those rimfires that Cooper sells. A close friend bought one for target shooting, and at the sametime another friend bought a Remington 40X. Both rifles were broken in the right way, and they must have went thru hundreds of boxes of ammo trying to find what shot and what didn't. I ended up with a lot of what they bought as it didn't work out for them. (all rimfires are that way). Tony's rifle came from the factory with a custom barrel (Kriefger or Shilen maybe) and a Jewell trigger in a very nice synthetic stock. Installed a nice Sightron scope on it (benchrest quality), and started winning matches all over the place. He drops by to tell me that on the following Saturday night he and the otherguy are going to shoot at the Borden matches that Bill Calfee and the boys do. Now you don't just go there with the idea of cleaning house! Tony planned on winning, and I knew better. But Tony either finished in 10th place or 13th place, and the guy with the 40x finished in 20th out of twenty spots. Needless to say it was a humbeling event for both of them. I was surprised Tony did so well. A couple weeks later he buys a Winchester 52D chamber reamer that was ground to Calfee's known spec. Did a barrel setback, and some minor stock work and major bolt work. The rifle comes in shooting very high twos and mid threes at fifty yards with Federal Olympic Gold Match ammo (the very best). Placed tenth down at Borden. He later comes up with the idea of installing a tuner on the barrel like everybody else uses down there. After a month of steady research I see how they work, and commence to design and build two slightly different ones (buy one, don't bother to build one!). After building it we figure out we have no idea how to mount it on the barrel without messing things up. I come up with a way, and we do it. He comes over to see me with a hand full of 50 yard targets he shot with the tuner installed. They all were right around .22" and many were in the .170" area. He goes back down to Borden for another beat down, and places fifth! In a Cooper! Calfee looked over the tuner very closely, and asked where it came from and just who made it (my head swole up). Tony tells him that we took the article he wrote in P.S. and followed all his instruction in ringing and slugging the barrel. The tuner was just our own design that we came up with. I sent Bill a set of drawings and he gave Tony sketches of a design that we needed to be looking at. I built two of them, but have no idea how well they worked as I have not talked to Tony in three years. To place fifth at Borden is doing something special. The rifles we shot against were all Calfee XP100 conversions and Anschutze with a couple Turbos and Harts in the mix. That's how good a Cooper rimfire target gun is! gary [/QUOTE]
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