Post by woodsy on Apr 23, 2011 23:12:17 GMT 1
I have just got home from a long range field rifle championship (metal tagets at various distances in hilly terrain, 500 to 1050 metres) and took the chance to try my No4 L42 conversion. Mine is a civilian conversion done in the UK using genuine 1972 RSAF Enfield barrel, mag and bolt head and I have fitted it with a Swift 6-18X scope on a 20 MOA base I made. I was curious to see how it would stack up against specialist long range rifles like Accuracy International, Sako TRG, Barnard, PGM, etc in various calibres up to .416 Chey Tac, the most common being .338 Lapua, .300 Win Mag, and .308, and lots of various wildcats. I struggled with elevation during the first few stages being just under or just over most of the time (I had the wind fairly well sussed) but eventually came to grips with it and started laying a few down towards the end, my last 5 shots taking out 3 pepper poppers at 745 metres and two misses within 2 inches. As I had never fired the rifle further than 100 metres before yesterday I was well pleased with the results and am happy that the L42 is still a competitive rig. I will compete next year with the same rifle and ammo (Aussie 1986 F4 ball, I was the only shooter not using handloads) and get a bit of paper practice in at various ranges to get my settings. I will also do a bit of hill training as, at 63 I found them to be a lot steeper than I remembered! 
