Finally made a range trip today, took the 9.3x62 Superlight and 376 Steyr, both showed some good accuracy, and I suspect much better than what the targets show since both beat me up, specially the 9.3x62 which scoped me not once, not twice, but three times!
I'm almost 65yrs old, been shooting since I was about 8yrs old and have never been cut by a scope, knocked my hat off a few times, but never drew blood, I made up for it today!
I made two mistakes, first of all I chose a Leupold VX-II 3-9x33 Ultralight for the 9.3x62, it has less eye relief than standard Leupy scopes, but thought I'd be Ok, but the recoil and particularly muzzle jump of the light rifle made it wicked, if I didn't have an iron grip on the forend when shooting, it would come right out of my hand and whack me which it did too many times. So I'm gonna have to do some scope swapping. The second mistake was not taking the Leadsled, just used a PAST Magnum shield with the rifle on a Rock BR rest, I didn't want to pack the Leadsled DFT down the hill and back out again, so went as light as possible, big mistake, I think the sled would have helped alot. My shoulder is a bit sore too!
Anyway they both seem to show potential to shoot good, light to mid loads seemed best, but I suspect part of the larger groups were my fault due to the recoil & muzzle jump, groups varied from ½"-¾" up to 3" with several in between, particularly showing too much vertical spread which leads me to believe it was my fault for not controlling the rifle well.
Tim
