As some of you know I bought a new 7mm08 Zastava M70 (think Interterms Mark X, Charles Daly, Remington 798) for my grandsons 15th birthday. The finish on these rifles is pretty poor; a couple coats of linseed oil so lots of pores and roughness. I sanded in a lot of coats of Truoil cut with turpentine. Now it has a proper finish.
Today It was off to the range for barrel breaking in and sighting it in. It was 10 series of one shot, cool and clean, one shot cool and clean. Then on to a series of 5 three shot runs and cleaning. Then, last, it was on to four 5 shot runs between cleaning.
Well the $400 Zastava M70 rifles are a shooters. The 5 shot groups were all about 1 MOA with factory loads. Here is my last five shot group plus a fouling shot (low and right) factory Nosler 120 gr. BT ammo.
I think I might pick one up for myself.
