Well it was 40 degrees out to day and sunny and not too windy. Took my Swede scout out With a couple of other milsurps. I just shot at 25 yards as I bore sighted the guns in looking through the barrel and only had a box each of ammo. I box of 6.5x55 reloads using Remington Brass, 140 grain Hornady bullet, CCI 200 Primers and 32.3 grains of 3031. One 5 shot group measured 0.698 center to center and the other group 5 shot group was one hole that measured from edge to edge 0.410. :grin: Needless to say I was satisfied with the reload and cannot wait to load more and shoot it at 100. I do need a different scope though on this one as the one I have mounted is a old Phantom pistol scope that as you can see works ok but it blacks out easy unless you stay really centered and it has a real small FOV only about 10 feet at a 100 yards. So it has to go. At least on this gun. Got to get more swede brass and load up more than 20 and shoot it at a 100. I might wait though until I get a easier to use scope on it. Jim

Congratulations. It sounds like your scout is a winner. I have three of the old M96 Swedish mausers in 6.5x55 and have restored them all. They were in fairly good shape to begin with. They're accurate buggers and with that 1 in 7 1/2" barrel twist handle the 140gr. bullets extremely well. Just don't get rid of it. They're becoming increasingly popular, and there aren't all that many around today. Best wishes.

Cal - Montreal

Thanks Cal Nope Won't get rid of it this one is a keeper! I had bought this a few years ago and I guess what I know now I should have never cut it. But that is water over the dam now and it does shoot well. It will make a dandy deer rifle. I took the Bushnell Phantom scope off of it and when I buy higher rings to clear the handgard base will install a 30MM Tasco Pro class 2.5x with the illuminated crosshairs you can turn on with a switch. I had this scope on a Mosin Nagant Polish 44 so I will have to find a other scope for it. The Phantom will be retired until I find something to put it on just to target shoot with. It may have been a good one in its day but better easier scopes to use are out there today. Jim