johngibbs222
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Thanks all for the responses, as I mentioned earlier I bought a Ruger #3, not the #1 that I started the thread about, it has scratched my itch.
I bought a box of PPU 55 grn soft points ( prvi partizan ammo https://www.prvipartizan.com/) which is dirt cheap here in the UK and trotted off to my local farmer who allows me to use a large, remote quarry for plinking and zeroing.
I have a nikko sterling scope aligner and it showed the scope to be in the ballpark.
I had taken a large cardboard carton with a white address label stuck to it at 50 yards, the first shot was about an inch below the label - I was holding on the bottom of the square. Next shot was an inch to the right of the first shot.
Pushed the carton back to approx 100 yards and the next three shots were halfway up the address label and covered by our 50 pence piece which is about 1 and 1/8 inches across, ok bits of two of the holes were peaking out the side but the only rest I have is a 6" nail knocked into a tree which was only about 5 or 6 inches diameter and it was quite windy with the tree moving about a bit.
Had to stop then as the farmer came down, he lives about half a mile from the quarry and could hear the shots over the gale that was blowing (I was shooting down wind and the wind was in his direction). Forgot to say it has a 22" barrel and is LOUD. I think I've been spoiled by silencers over here.
We had a chat for 10 minutes and then it started peeing down with rain, we ran up to his barn until the squall blew over then I went back to pick up my empties and the carton. Got 4 out of the 5 empties but the carton was a mass of wood pulp on the floor.
I've used this ammo before in one of our club rifles (I think it was a savage)and it seems to average 1" to 1.5" at 100 yards with that, with remington 55 grain psp the savage(?) managed about an inch or slightly less so, with that as a guide, I'm quite happy so far with the performance of the ruger, especially as I gave the barrel a good scrubbing the night before, I haven't touched the scope yet, it's a whitetail classic 1.5-5 x 20 so not the best of equipment for precision but, there again, neither am I.
I hope to go back up there next week sometime as I'm picking up some more ammo from the local dealer to see how that prints, 20 rds each of federal and remington 55 grain hunting bullets and 20 rounds of PPU 69 grain match ammo to see if that is stabilised enough by the ruger which I'm assuming is 1.12 though I don't know for sure.
Early days yet but I still think the #3 is the prettiest gun I own, it's performance is OK (great by my poor standards) so far and I've no doubt I'll find a cartridge that really suits it.
Watch this space..........
I bought a box of PPU 55 grn soft points ( prvi partizan ammo https://www.prvipartizan.com/) which is dirt cheap here in the UK and trotted off to my local farmer who allows me to use a large, remote quarry for plinking and zeroing.
I have a nikko sterling scope aligner and it showed the scope to be in the ballpark.
I had taken a large cardboard carton with a white address label stuck to it at 50 yards, the first shot was about an inch below the label - I was holding on the bottom of the square. Next shot was an inch to the right of the first shot.
Pushed the carton back to approx 100 yards and the next three shots were halfway up the address label and covered by our 50 pence piece which is about 1 and 1/8 inches across, ok bits of two of the holes were peaking out the side but the only rest I have is a 6" nail knocked into a tree which was only about 5 or 6 inches diameter and it was quite windy with the tree moving about a bit.
Had to stop then as the farmer came down, he lives about half a mile from the quarry and could hear the shots over the gale that was blowing (I was shooting down wind and the wind was in his direction). Forgot to say it has a 22" barrel and is LOUD. I think I've been spoiled by silencers over here.
We had a chat for 10 minutes and then it started peeing down with rain, we ran up to his barn until the squall blew over then I went back to pick up my empties and the carton. Got 4 out of the 5 empties but the carton was a mass of wood pulp on the floor.
I've used this ammo before in one of our club rifles (I think it was a savage)and it seems to average 1" to 1.5" at 100 yards with that, with remington 55 grain psp the savage(?) managed about an inch or slightly less so, with that as a guide, I'm quite happy so far with the performance of the ruger, especially as I gave the barrel a good scrubbing the night before, I haven't touched the scope yet, it's a whitetail classic 1.5-5 x 20 so not the best of equipment for precision but, there again, neither am I.
I hope to go back up there next week sometime as I'm picking up some more ammo from the local dealer to see how that prints, 20 rds each of federal and remington 55 grain hunting bullets and 20 rounds of PPU 69 grain match ammo to see if that is stabilised enough by the ruger which I'm assuming is 1.12 though I don't know for sure.
Early days yet but I still think the #3 is the prettiest gun I own, it's performance is OK (great by my poor standards) so far and I've no doubt I'll find a cartridge that really suits it.
Watch this space..........