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<blockquote data-quote="Tac-O" data-source="post: 1847637" data-attributes="member: 109994"><p>Sounds like you've done a fair bit!! I grew up slug hunting deer and occasionally squirrel hunting with a 22. Most of my hunting was archery. I never actually tried shooting my slugs for groups because they were $1.50/shot and it wasn't exactly a joy to shoot more than 3 or so at a time! I always squirrel hunted with an old abused marlin semi-auto 22 with open sights, so I never shot that for groups either. So, I don't have any marksmanship training at all. I'll have to find someone around here to help me out for a day or two.</p><p></p><p>In all honesty, that most recent target is from a new gun, identical to the one in my original post, that I bought about a week and a half ago. I have somewhat of an obsessive compulsive problem and that's a bit embarrassing to admit on here. After using the JB's paste and twisting a brush in the throat, I was convinced I may have screwed up my barrel seeing as how it shot worse and collected so much more copper. Since I really liked that rifle, I decided I would just get the same one and sell the first one or hang on to it for a someday custom gun. I thought about going with something like an xbolt hells canyon, but I didn't want spend even more money for a gun that doesn't necessarily have any better chance of shooting well, since they're both factory rifles. I figured for how much I liked my tikka rifle and how much it cost, I don't think I could find anything else in that price range that I would like more. So, anyway, I'm a bit of a nutter and maybe a glutton for punishment. Oh well. </p><p></p><p>On this new version, I DIDN'T cut the ribs out. I degreased and cleaned all scope mounting surfaces with 70% isopropyl, torqued all of that stuff to spec, and torqued my stock to about 38-40in/lbs, where tikka says up to 45in/lbs for the plastic stock. A lot of people only torque to 35in/lbs based on that aussie guy Nathan Foster's recommendation. Adjusted the trigger down to 2-2.5lbs. Cleaned the bore extremely well before shooting.</p><p></p><p> I used a factory box of winchester 165gr power points to do the break in procedure; shot one and clean, shoot one and clean, etc. I don't know if I believe that does anything, but I figured I'd do it just to be safe. After I got through that box of 20, I cleaned to white again with foaming cleaner. I planned to not put a brush through this bore unless I have to at some point.</p><p></p><p>So, after that box of 20 factory rounds, I loaded the test loads with the staball powder. After shooting those, I cleaned with the wipe out and accelerator, letting it sit over night and had almost no copper pick up from those 20. So, that's promising. I may have to see if I can find some of the federal match ammo to get a baseline, but I worry about the possibility of my gun not liking them. So, I'm not sure if I want to do that or try 10-20 rounds of my best group from the last target.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tac-O, post: 1847637, member: 109994"] Sounds like you've done a fair bit!! I grew up slug hunting deer and occasionally squirrel hunting with a 22. Most of my hunting was archery. I never actually tried shooting my slugs for groups because they were $1.50/shot and it wasn't exactly a joy to shoot more than 3 or so at a time! I always squirrel hunted with an old abused marlin semi-auto 22 with open sights, so I never shot that for groups either. So, I don't have any marksmanship training at all. I'll have to find someone around here to help me out for a day or two. In all honesty, that most recent target is from a new gun, identical to the one in my original post, that I bought about a week and a half ago. I have somewhat of an obsessive compulsive problem and that's a bit embarrassing to admit on here. After using the JB's paste and twisting a brush in the throat, I was convinced I may have screwed up my barrel seeing as how it shot worse and collected so much more copper. Since I really liked that rifle, I decided I would just get the same one and sell the first one or hang on to it for a someday custom gun. I thought about going with something like an xbolt hells canyon, but I didn't want spend even more money for a gun that doesn't necessarily have any better chance of shooting well, since they're both factory rifles. I figured for how much I liked my tikka rifle and how much it cost, I don't think I could find anything else in that price range that I would like more. So, anyway, I'm a bit of a nutter and maybe a glutton for punishment. Oh well. On this new version, I DIDN'T cut the ribs out. I degreased and cleaned all scope mounting surfaces with 70% isopropyl, torqued all of that stuff to spec, and torqued my stock to about 38-40in/lbs, where tikka says up to 45in/lbs for the plastic stock. A lot of people only torque to 35in/lbs based on that aussie guy Nathan Foster's recommendation. Adjusted the trigger down to 2-2.5lbs. Cleaned the bore extremely well before shooting. I used a factory box of winchester 165gr power points to do the break in procedure; shot one and clean, shoot one and clean, etc. I don't know if I believe that does anything, but I figured I'd do it just to be safe. After I got through that box of 20, I cleaned to white again with foaming cleaner. I planned to not put a brush through this bore unless I have to at some point. So, after that box of 20 factory rounds, I loaded the test loads with the staball powder. After shooting those, I cleaned with the wipe out and accelerator, letting it sit over night and had almost no copper pick up from those 20. So, that's promising. I may have to see if I can find some of the federal match ammo to get a baseline, but I worry about the possibility of my gun not liking them. So, I'm not sure if I want to do that or try 10-20 rounds of my best group from the last target. [/QUOTE]
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