Roger Allen
Active Member
i have a marlin 336 in 35 remington (newer one) that I’ve had for about a year. When I bought it I tried two different molds which were the Noe version of the rcbs 200 gr fn and a Lyman round nose casting a 206 gr bullet (forget the mold code)
After testing it in the spring I settled for the Noe clone mold as it seem to shoot 1 inch at 50 yards compared to the Lyman’s 1 1/2-2 inch groups (also didn’t like how small the Lyman casted and to get around it I had to powder coat it).
I’ve been shooting the rcbs clone all year now open sight off a good bench getting 1 inch at around 50 yards and been quite pleased. Although some days it’s a 2 inch no tobacco day and some days after coffee and a dip it was back to 1 inch.
I like having open sights as my vision is impeccable by the grace of god and it allows me to not add extra weight to my gun when humping it around but figured maybe to do my gun a little justice I’ll just mount a bushnell 1.5-5xwhatever small bell is on the end of that gun; real nice small light weight scope that isn’t ultra powerful and gets me just what I need.
Lined it in at 70 degree sunny weather a month ago and got 3/4 inch off a small round table we have on our deck which is large enough to put a ash tray on it for cigar smoking and a book bag rest, ultimately I was super pleased!
Decided today since it’s 30 degrees I’ll try to shock my scope by moving it from the basement 72 degrees to outside and see if it fogs or changes impact yada yada yada. I shot 4 shells from a old batch that I had left over off the same small table w the same book bag and whola I got a 1 inch group.
Pretty happy w it as it seems my load is unaffected by temperature as is my scope. Very happy indeed. Just letting you all know that I’m pretty much happy right now
After testing it in the spring I settled for the Noe clone mold as it seem to shoot 1 inch at 50 yards compared to the Lyman’s 1 1/2-2 inch groups (also didn’t like how small the Lyman casted and to get around it I had to powder coat it).
I’ve been shooting the rcbs clone all year now open sight off a good bench getting 1 inch at around 50 yards and been quite pleased. Although some days it’s a 2 inch no tobacco day and some days after coffee and a dip it was back to 1 inch.
I like having open sights as my vision is impeccable by the grace of god and it allows me to not add extra weight to my gun when humping it around but figured maybe to do my gun a little justice I’ll just mount a bushnell 1.5-5xwhatever small bell is on the end of that gun; real nice small light weight scope that isn’t ultra powerful and gets me just what I need.
Lined it in at 70 degree sunny weather a month ago and got 3/4 inch off a small round table we have on our deck which is large enough to put a ash tray on it for cigar smoking and a book bag rest, ultimately I was super pleased!
Decided today since it’s 30 degrees I’ll try to shock my scope by moving it from the basement 72 degrees to outside and see if it fogs or changes impact yada yada yada. I shot 4 shells from a old batch that I had left over off the same small table w the same book bag and whola I got a 1 inch group.
Pretty happy w it as it seems my load is unaffected by temperature as is my scope. Very happy indeed. Just letting you all know that I’m pretty much happy right now