Prickskytte

Kinman · Feb 16, 2022

Now that I got your attention...I have been on the lookout for some of the older Swedish Mauser battle packs that used to be cheap and plentiful. Them days are gone but a little while back I ran across a Gunbroker auction that had a number of them for sale, I put up a bid for what I would be willing to pay and to my surprise won them all. I knew from what little I had gleaned out of what is in print that the stuff you wanted was labeled M/41 which meant you were getting full on combat ready ammo, not training stuff. This stuff was labelled Prickskytte, that had my curiosity up, I thought it meant sharp pointed which it is instead of rounded like most of that stuff usually is.
I took it down to the range today and to get my baseline down fired a couple warm up 140 gr. soft points I had worked up for a good deer load which was accurate, I have a load for target that shoots 142 gr. Match Kings to 1/2". This first load I shot produced a typical sub 1" group with one flyer out of the four round hole...this was at 100 yds. Now I got out five of the milsurp stuff and fired them down range and had a hard time believing I wasn't using the 140 ELD Soft Points, nearly the same point of aim and truly tight group.
Got home today and just found out that Prickskytte in Swedish means Sniping, they are 140gr. spitzers 2,625fps w 2148 ftlbs. Pretty neat lot of ammo.

AJ · Feb 16, 2022

Kinman said:
Now that I got your attention...I have been on the lookout for some of the older Swedish Mauser battle packs that used to be cheap and plentiful. Them days are gone but a little while back I ran across a Gunbroker auction that had a number of them for sale, I put up a bid for what I would be willing to pay and to my surprise won them all. I knew from what little I had gleaned out of what is in print that the stuff you wanted was labeled M/41 which meant you were getting full on combat ready ammo, not training stuff. This stuff was labelled Prickskytte, that had my curiosity up, I thought it meant sharp pointed which it is instead of rounded like most of that stuff usually is.
I took it down to the range today and to get my baseline down fired a couple warm up 140 gr. soft points I had worked up for a good deer load which was accurate, I have a load for target that shoots 142 gr. Match Kings to 1/2". This first load I shot produced a typical sub 1" group with one flyer out of the four round hole...this was at 100 yds. Now I got out five of the milsurp stuff and fired them down range and had a hard time believing I wasn't using the 140 ELD Soft Points, nearly the same point of aim and truly tight group.
Got home today and just found out that Prickskytte in Swedish means Sniping, they are 140gr. spitzers 2,625fps w 2148 ftlbs. Pretty neat lot of ammo.

Now duplicate it. Sounds like a great load for your rifle. I have a load that will do that for my Swedish CG 63.

boatbum101 · Feb 17, 2022

Norma MRP works very well in the Swede .

AJ · Feb 17, 2022

Here is the target that I was talking about. The loading data is on the target. If I am on that day and the eyes are good I can duplicate this pretty much any time. I get one out of the group once in a while. My shooting partner says that is to keep me humble. Why did I not find this rifle 50 years ago!!??

Kinman · Feb 17, 2022

I do have a load using the 142gr. Match Kings that shoots one hole groups like yours, I thought it was interesting that the Milsurp stuff shot so well. It is interesting how these fine old rifles passed unnoticed while we were young, I think some of us were tied up with the history of our beloved O3-A3...there were so many fine rifles available in that time period, I remember rows of milsurp rifles at Smith and Edwards near Odgen, Ut. I needed a deer rifle and on a very limited budget bought a 7.7 Arisaka for $15 and a couple boxes of Norma ammunition for another $5 and was on my way out the door with a license and all for under $25 at sixteen years of age.

fordson · Feb 17, 2022

I get the best results in my Swedish M94 using RL-22 and 140 Spritzer Sierra Match King. With this load, I can almost duplicate their MILSUP Ammo.

AJ · Feb 17, 2022

Kinman said:
I do have a load using the 142gr. Match Kings that shoots one hole groups like yours, I thought it was interesting that the Milsurp stuff shot so well. It is interesting how these fine old rifles passed unnoticed while we were young, I think some of us were tied up with the history of our beloved O3-A3...there were so many fine rifles available in that time period, I remember rows of milsurp rifles at Smith and Edwards near Odgen, Ut. I needed a deer rifle and on a very limited budget bought a 7.7 Arisaka for $15 and a couple boxes of Norma ammunition for another $5 and was on my way out the door with a license and all for under $25 at sixteen years of age.

Never really looked at 1903's very much. I think because milsurps were so cheap. When I was stationed in NC there was a local gun shop that was filled with milsurps. He had 7 MM & 8 MM Mauser's and 7.5 Schmitt-Rubin's for $20.00, your pick. Military hardball ammo was cheap too, IIRC less than $0.04 a round. My plinker was a cut-down 98K in 8 MM. Someone had tried to sporterize it, I added a shotgun recoil pad and it was easy on the shoulder.

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