Hi All,
Well last Sunday for the first time I shot my single shot Baikel 18MH in .222 Rem on a proper range . The only ammuntion that I have is a couple of boxes of Sako 55 Grn Gamehead. The rifle I sighted in at about 60 paces so nothing was touched adjustment wise, just a few for grouping. POI was in the Bull at 100 yards but very slightly to the right which I put down to the stiff wind from my left on Sunday. 4 shots were close together but the 5th was about 1" away. More testing is needed to really tell how good this rifle performs and I really do need to get some dies and new cases to get the best out of it. This will have to wait until funds permit though but I do have the feeling that accuracy is going to be better than one might expect from this rifle.
The only work done on the rifle is that I reduced the weight of the trigger pull, but it still has some creep in it, and I reshaped and re-finsihed the wood to a more pleasing and comfortable shape to my mind. The fore end has not been bedded nor floated although I am not quite sure how one would float this fore end? This is how it looks now :-
I have removed the rubber but pad and put a std Baikel red plastic one on in it's place as the rubber pad is not needed with a .222 Rem chambered rifle.
The rubber pad has been swapped onto a 20 bore Baikel single shot shotgun I have aquired.
Edit:- Just for Coyote Trapper, hope ths helps.
This is how it looked when I got the rifle.
The action closed
It does not shoot to badly.
