Single Shot Saturday - Show us your Single Shots!

[Bob Nelson 35Whelen]

I took The Dakota #10 243 Win to the range the last couple of days.

I shot some factory ammo and reloads.

Most everything I shot was under a 1" group for 3 shots at 100 yards!
I'm very impressed that it shoots so easily.

I'm not crazy about the rifle not having an ejector like the Ruger #1 but rather an extractor. With that it's a bit of a pain to operate at the range.

But beautiful rifle that seems to shoot well! I will be fun to hunt pests with....

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@ftrovato
For a minute there I thought you were going to say I took it to the gunsmith to have it rechambered to a better 6mm like the 240 Weatherby or 6mm REM instead of that horrible little 243.
If you like you could send it to me and I will gladly rebarrell it to 25-06, you know something you can actually hunt with.
Bob

 

[Bob Nelson 35Whelen]

my #3 in 45-70 shoots with the best of them, 300 gr hornady with 50 grs H4198 for 2000 fps. my #1 also like that load, both shot from a rest at 100 yards.

@leslie hetrick
I had the opportunity to buy a No3 in 22 Hornet for $500aud a few years ago. Stupid me already had a Hornet so declined. What an idiot.
Bob

 

[Bob Nelson 35Whelen]

That's so pretty I don't think even @Bob Nelson 35Whelen could poke fun at it being a 243!

@steve white
Don't bet on it.
It may be a beautiful rifles but it's screaming out for a rebarrell or a re-chamber to 6mm REM or 240 Weatherby.
No matter how nice it looks it's still just another useless 243.
Bob

 

[KJE81]

You can deal with this "weird neck wall thickness" by reloading it with Redding bushing neck sizing dies. Just take a 6mm Remington die and use the appropriate bushing.
Cases last for ever....
5,6x57R is a great cartridge....

HWL

Thank you for the tip, I will try that next time. So far I have only loaded with new cases, still have more then a hundred but saves all the fired once-ones aswell, just havent gotten around to reloading them as of yet.

The cartridge seems to work great, so far I have used it on Roe Deer, Beaver, Foxes and Badgers. Also shot two Capercailles and one Black Grouse this winter in a swedish traditional hunting form which we call "toppjakt" which basically means skiing in the outback and finding birds in threes then shooting them on a bit longer distances.

I am using Swift Scirocco II 75 grains bullets, they work great on the bigger animals but causedsome damage to the birds, but nothing extraordinary.

 

[ftrovato]

@steve white
Don't bet on it.
It may be a beautiful rifles but it's screaming out for a rebarrell or a re-chamber to 6mm REM or 240 Weatherby.
No matter how nice it looks it's still just another useless 243.
Bob

Come on Bob, it's a good squirrel gun!

 

[HWL]

Also shot two Capercailles and one Black Grouse this winter in a swedish traditional hunting form which we call "toppjakt" which basically means skiing in the outback and finding birds in threes then shooting them on a bit longer distances.

I do pretty much the same in Finland.
Friend of mine has a Finish Spitz and we hunt Black Grouse and Capercaillies following the barking dog.

HWL

 

[HWL]

@steve white
Don't bet on it.
It may be a beautiful rifles but it's screaming out for a rebarrel or a re-chamber to 6mm REM or 240 Weatherby.
No matter how nice it looks it's still just another useless 243.
Bob

....or rebarrel it to a .240 Holland & Holland Flanged Magnum!

HWL

 

[HWL]

I am using Swift Scirocco II 75 grains bullets, they work great on the bigger animals but causedsome damage to the birds, but nothing extraordinary.

In the good old times, RWS made a 74 gr/4,8g full metal jacket spitzer bullet for that purpose.
I think, I still have a box or two in my reloading shelf.

HWL

 

[HWL]

I am using Swift Scirocco II 75 grains bullets, they work great on the bigger animals but causedsome damage to the birds, but nothing extraordinary.

In the good old times, RWS made a 74 gr/4,8g full metal jacket spitzer bullet for that purpose.
I think, I still have a box or two in my reloading shelf.

HWL

 

[KJE81]

I do pretty much the same in Finland.
Friend of mine has a Finish Spitz and we hunt Black Grouse and Capercaillies following the barking dog.

HWL

I also have a Finnish Spitz and he actually runs behind me when skiing but have not thought about using him to locate the birds during winter. In the fall he and I hunts a lot of Capercaille and Black Grouse but then I use my Heym BBF instead, its nice to have both barrels, sometimes its far easier to take a shot using the shotgun barrel in denser forests.

 

[Grumpy gumpy]

It’s Saturday here,
Remington rolling block in 45-70, breach seated so the equivalent of a 45-100
Gumpy