Remington 513T range report.

[Mustang]

My youngest son and I shot in a "match-stick" match yesterday. He used an H&R M5200

http://www.calguns.net/calgunforum/showthread.php?p=9712997#post9712997

and I used an old Remington 513T with a Bushnell 3200 10X40 scope.



The match was shot first thing in the morning and it was a bit cold (low 30's) for these parts. Winds were light and variable. Beause of the low temps, we had to get the rifles warmed up and rezeroed. The match was shot off a front sand bag rest with nothing other than your hand for rear support at 50 yards.

Here is my warm up target for the match. Unfortunately, we turned in our official targets.


There were some small bullseye targets above the match sticks, but I gave up trying to re-zero my rifle on them because of the relatively low power scope I was using (10X). Most guys were using 18 to 24 power scopes. I started using the match heads as an aiming point and finally got my rifle back on target. Best group was a 5 shot group fired at the #9 match head....around .39" ctc.

I was using Federal "auto match" ammo.

[wellfedirishman]

Very nice! The old 513Ts are fantastic guns and very accurate. At what distance was the target?

I am not as familiar with the H&R but it looks like a really solid gun.

[Mustang]

Thanks, irishman.

These targets, as well as the match, were shot at 50 yards. The match targets were identical to the warm up targets.

The H&R is a very heavy rifle and was reputed to be a knock off of the Winchester 52.

[Sheldon]

I have a couple of the 513 rifles and they are a lot of fun and mine are pretty accurate to boot. Love to take rifles like that out when I take my kids friends out with us to the range....a must for evey collection if just for this purpose. Cheap to shoot and a lot of fun for newbies with the low recoil and muzzle blast.

[phish]

The H&R is a very heavy rifle and was reputed to be a knock off of the Winchester 52.

I have both, the biggest differentiator is the trigger. The trigger on my particular H&R can't hold a candle to the one on my 52D despite all my attempts at tweaking it.

Nice collection of rear sights btw, I have a couple examples myself. The crown jewel being the Redfield Mk 10. I'm still missing a Gates...

[Mustang]

I have both, the biggest differentiator is the trigger. The trigger on my particular H&R can't hold a candle to the one on my 52D despite all my attempts at tweaking it.

Nice collection of rear sights btw, I have a couple examples myself. The crown jewel being the Redfield Mk 10. I'm still missing a Gates...

Thanks, phish

The triggers on my H&R 5200 and M12's are pretty nice. If they are substandard compared to the Winchester 52's, the Winchester triggers must be fantastic.

Thanks about the sights, also...I hope to be able to put them to use.

[Mustang]

By the way...are there any gunsmiths that specialize in tuning/accurizing these rifles?