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Old 05-06-2016 | 08:21 AM
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Default Shooting the Pedersoli

It's been raining ever since I got back to PA on Monday. While I was down south my buddy got a CVA Wolf and put a scope on it and wanted to sight it in. So I told him I would tag along and bring the Pedersoli Frontier Rifle along.
The rifle shot very well. The first 2 PRBs shot at 25 yds were touching but 2" to the left. Knocking the front sight a bit to the left put me right in the bull with the next 2 using 80 gr of Goex FFg.
Then with the target out to 100 yards shooting alongside the Wolf, and adjusting the loads I ended up shooting about a 5-6" group.
I ended up shooting 100 gr of Goex FFFg, a .015" patch and .495" ball. It was fun shooting it but the sights are horrible for shooting any distance. These old eyes can barely see the front sight in the narrow slot in the rear. I think I may have solved that issue though after cleaning by applying a thin white line on the rear in line with the notch and putting white on just the tip of the front sight. Next outing will show how it works out. And I will have to check the load at 25, 50, 75 and 100 yards.
All in all I fired about 30 balls through it and only had one fail to fire because the flash hole got plugged. I called RMC today and have one of their flash holes on the way. I did modify the existing one by opening the flash hole to .050" and putting a bit of a "funnel" on the outside with a 7/64" bit.
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