.204 Ruger Axis Range Report

[Rosco]

This post is in reference to this build thread

http://www.savageshooters.com/showthread.php?44104-204-Ruger-Axis-Kentucky-Critter-Getter


Memorial Day was good!! Finally had a chance to make it out to the range to let loose on a few rounds. Didn't have a lot of time to shoot, but was able to get some groups in a 100 and 200 yds.
Now I had not shot this gun since the muzzle break was installed and was curious to see if it had any effect on accuracy.

Conditions:

72 degrees
Overcast and rained most the time
90% Humidity
Winds 0-5 mph with 15 mph gusts.

Ammo- Hornady 40gr V-Max


100yds

Shot 4 groups

They were suppose to be four 3 shot groups but you can see in the first picture it has 4. The one of the bottom right which I ended up factoring in was because I am still not use to the light pull of the Rifle Basix SAV-1. When I shoot my regular 7mm-08 Axis at 7lbs and then hop on this gun inevitably I pop one off.

http://i263.photobucket.com/albums/ii157/hcoltrain/Mobile%20Uploads/Ruger%20204%20Axis/IMAG0916.jpg

http://i263.photobucket.com/albums/ii157/hcoltrain/Mobile%20Uploads/Ruger%20204%20Axis/IMAG0915.jpg

http://i263.photobucket.com/albums/ii157/hcoltrain/Mobile%20Uploads/Ruger%20204%20Axis/IMAG0914.jpg



http://i263.photobucket.com/albums/ii157/hcoltrain/Mobile%20Uploads/Ruger%20204%20Axis/IMAG0912.jpg


3 shot group average- 0.65

[Rosco]

200 yds

http://i263.photobucket.com/albums/ii157/hcoltrain/Mobile%20Uploads/Ruger%20204%20Axis/IMAG0909.jpg

http://i263.photobucket.com/albums/ii157/hcoltrain/Mobile%20Uploads/Ruger%20204%20Axis/IMAG0908.jpg


6 3 Shot Group Average- 1.72''

On the second one you can see in the center group I pulled one way off the right, have no idea how that happened. That group ended up @ 2.45'' but the rest were all Sub-MOA with one group coming in @ 0.99 or <.5MOA.
The break didn't seem to effect accuracy either way. In any case, I am very happy so far with this rifle and look forward to getting out to 300+ here soon.

[sixonetonoffun]

Beautiful rifle. Needs a name now!

[Rosco]

Thanks and guess I need to come up with something...

[Rosco]

Got a chance to take the .204 out for round two, and decided to try some Fiocchi 40gr A-Max.

Shot 5 3 shot groups all at 100yds. The orange stickers were my site-in shots.

http://i263.photobucket.com/albums/ii157/hcoltrain/Mobile%20Uploads/Ruger%20204%20Axis/IMAG0921.jpg



http://i263.photobucket.com/albums/ii157/hcoltrain/Mobile%20Uploads/Ruger%20204%20Axis/IMAG0922.jpg


Group Avg was - .566

[fgw_in_fla]

Nice work.
Reading your thread on the actual build, it seems you're pretty thorough. Almost to the point of being OCD. You'll fit right in here.

But there is one question....
What the hell were doing on the Sally's Beauty Shop site?

Nice job.

[homefrontsniper]

Muzzle Break on .204???

[fgw_in_fla]

Muzzle Break on .204???

Why not?
I see guys at the range with muzzle breaks on Ruger 22LR rifles.

To each his own.

Except for the part about being on Sally's Beauty Shop website.

[Rosco]

When I bought the barrel it came already threaded at 1/2x28. So figured why not the Ross Schuler breaks are only $45.00, plus I had never installed and timed a break before and figured it was a good opportunity to learn.

As for Sally's lol...I discovered this trick on some forum a while back, Long Range Hunting I think. The guy had taken his wife's nail polisher and used it on his gun barrel to lightly polish out some scratches. He couldn't say enough good things about how well it worked. So I went on Amazon looking and abracadabra the first site, Sally's, had these so I picked a few up.

And now I have great nails too!! Lol...

[Texanjohn]

Why not?

Except for the part about being on Sally's Beauty Shop website.
Come on Frank! Takes a real man to go to the range with pretty nails! JK

[fgw_in_fla]

I was wondering how their selection of hair care products was looking.
I like to keep mine looking good before it starts falling out.

Hair, not nails....

[Rosco]

Frank needs to get his hair done before the range!!

http://i263.photobucket.com/albums/ii157/hcoltrain/tedn.jpg

[fgw_in_fla]

Up until about 3-4 weeks ago my hair was about that long.
Then summer starting drifting in and I had enough.

Suddenly I realized why older women wear their hair short.
It's a pain in the wazooli to take care of.

[Rosco]

I can imagine. Never let my mullet grow out that long, I keep it high and tight now.

[bythebook]

When I bought the barrel it came already threaded at 1/2x28. So figured why not the Ross Schuler breaks are only $45.00, plus I had never installed and timed a break before and figured it was a good opportunity to learn. ...

I did the same thing Rosco. I bought a barrel that was threaded and ordered a Schuler break and installed it and timed it myself. It wasn't too much work. I haven't done much shooting with it yet as I have had some health problems.

[Rosco]

Your right, once you have it figured out it doesn't take much time at all. The shims worked well, but I wish that I had a small lathe so I could have taken a little off the break, and was able to smoother transition to the barrel.

[bythebook]

Rosco when I ordered my brake from Ross I miked the end of my barrel at the start of the threads and sent it to him and it is smooth.

[Rosco]

if I didn't have so much into the gun already I would have sent the barrel to Ross and have him do that as well. basically I was trying to save a few dollars and some time.

[bythebook]

I sent him the measurements not the barrel.

[Rosco]

OK I misunderstood, but yes I sent them barrel measurements as well and when the brake came and initially put it on it looked great, but was not timed correctly. Ross told me to use some 150-180 grit sandpaper to take some off the break, but I wasn't making any progress. So that's when I got the shims. If I had benchsander or something along those lines things would have been much cleaner.