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Sometime around 1985 my wife bought me an Interarms/VZ 'Mini MkX' in .223 as a birthday present. I popped an el-cheapo Bushnell 4x scope on it with some used Weaver brand rings and had fun with it shooting steel plates at the 200 yard range at the gun club in Dupage County outside of Chicago.
When I moved to CA in 1988 I shot it occasionally but because it is a 1/12 twist it wouldn't stabilize heavier bullets and I stopped using it and I would guess the last time I shot it was easily 10 years ago. Beside the bullet stabilization issue I had mounted the scope too far forward and the eye relief was wrong but I was too lazy to fix it.
The other day for some reason I got it out of the safe, cleaned the dust off, redid the scope so it has the proper eye relief and took it to the range today to rezero it.
Much to my surprise it wasn't too badly off and after some shot and some adjustments I fired a three round group to test the 100 yard zero. I was using some (at least) 5 year old reloads with some flat base 52 grain .224 bullets that I found at the bottom of my bullet pile that had gotten some cleaning solvent dripped on them and got corroded. In other words I wasn't expecting much
The three holes could easily be covered by a nickel coin. This was at 100 yards from a bench.
The point isn't that I'm a great shot or a great reloader but that even inexpensive bolt guns with a light weight barrel and cheap optics are capable of great accuracy. I'll be shooting this guy more often now!
Century is selling them through J&G, so if someone is looking for a high quality reasonable cost .223 bolt, I recommend this model.
When I moved to CA in 1988 I shot it occasionally but because it is a 1/12 twist it wouldn't stabilize heavier bullets and I stopped using it and I would guess the last time I shot it was easily 10 years ago. Beside the bullet stabilization issue I had mounted the scope too far forward and the eye relief was wrong but I was too lazy to fix it.
The other day for some reason I got it out of the safe, cleaned the dust off, redid the scope so it has the proper eye relief and took it to the range today to rezero it.
Much to my surprise it wasn't too badly off and after some shot and some adjustments I fired a three round group to test the 100 yard zero. I was using some (at least) 5 year old reloads with some flat base 52 grain .224 bullets that I found at the bottom of my bullet pile that had gotten some cleaning solvent dripped on them and got corroded. In other words I wasn't expecting much
The three holes could easily be covered by a nickel coin. This was at 100 yards from a bench.
The point isn't that I'm a great shot or a great reloader but that even inexpensive bolt guns with a light weight barrel and cheap optics are capable of great accuracy. I'll be shooting this guy more often now!
Century is selling them through J&G, so if someone is looking for a high quality reasonable cost .223 bolt, I recommend this model.
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