I bought the Marlin 989M2 a earlier this year for the princely sum of £65 and this was the first I've had the opportunity to shoot it. It was worth the wait!
The top and bottom groups are of 25 rounds of RWS high velocity and the centre group is 35 rounds of some left over Eley standard velocity ammunition. The high velocity is definitely the preferred ammunition as I had some failures to cycle with the standard velocity ammunition, however I can't complain about the accuracy. The trigger is on the heavy side, but once I got used to it, it's not really that bad. The big problem with the Marlin is I only have one magazine and 7 rounds is not enough!
The Winchester was problematic today. On the one hand it shoot great with the right ammunition.
The above is a 12 shot group with home loaded ammo (125 gn Rainer flatnose), unfortunately that was the last of it. The 158gn flat nose ammo I loaded (38 spl loads) was OK but nothing special. The 158gn semi wadcutter ammo was dreadful - difficult to load, failures to feed and inaccurate. In the end I just shot, what was left, off - I don't think I'll bother with it again.
On the plus side, no double feeds, so I think I've sorted that problem - use good brass! I have Prvi 357 Mag ammo on the way, so if that works OK, I don't think I'll bother hand loading for it any more.
I had the had the Westlake Phoenix ML pistol at the range. At 25m I couldn't get any sort of group. At 10m I kept it in the diamond (see below), but it was hard work. I've never been a great shot with a pistol and I guess I'm out of practice with iron sights
because the Destroyer was hard work as well today.
Westlake
All in all, a pretty good afternoon. :shakeshout:
