Thread: BSA 243 at the range

Originally Posted by Jaco Goosen

Good shooting. 243 has always been a firm favourate of mine too.
Was the back of your target covered in clay backblasted by the bullets striking the backstop? I think me and a matee were admiring your BSA this morning at Kaitoke.

Hah- yep that was me mate- you were the sth African accent Range Officer ?

Here tis- BSA Viscount

currently playing with a 243 mohawk. Tossing up weather to thread it or not. Its not a minter but short and loud

Originally Posted by blip

currently playing with a 243 mohawk. Tossing up weather to thread it or not. Its not a minter but short and loud

yep do it- I raccoon "not a minter" rifles are far better to my eye than minters- i love the look(and half the cost) of a well used shooter.

Problem with my BSA is, the stock LOP is very short- need to chop the original red concrete butt pad off and install something else- not for recoil, cos there is nearly none, but for LOP sakes.

Yea the older ones have a bit of character to them.

That's a nice old rifle!
Did you chrono the 95gr targex by any chance?

Yup. Thats me. 5years here and still have the accent.

Originally Posted by Jaco Goosen

Yup. Thats me. 5years here and still have the accent.

You don't have to. Its one accent Kiwis' seem to like. Especially when it's accompanied with "we were beaten by a better team".

that is quite some change - did you fire some good stuff after those horror groups - what were they like - its simply that something may have come loose to cause that - so if you shot the horror groups and then did not shoot rifle again I would give it a good once over - it justs seems an excessive group size to be projectile related but I could be wrong -

Originally Posted by Barry the hunter

that is quite some change - did you fire some good stuff after those horror groups - what were they like - its simply that something may have come loose to cause that - so if you shot the horror groups and then did not shoot rifle again I would give it a good once over - it justs seems an excessive group size to be projectile related but I could be wrong -

nah nothings loose- i fired great groups after the bad groups

more importantly...have you blooded the old gal yet???

Originally Posted by Jaco Goosen

Yup. Thats me. 5years here and still have the accent.

mate my dads from Liverpool, been here near 60 years and people can still pick where he's from

Originally Posted by Micky Duck

more importantly...have you blooded the old gal yet???

not long now mate

Originally Posted by makka

That's a nice old rifle!
Did you chrono the 95gr targex by any chance?

nah I didn't, not really curious- takes so fricken long setting up a chrono it'll get used in the bush so don't really need to know.

Fair enough, I'm pretty keen to give them a go in the 243ai I'm currently building