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Light recoil helps in that department too. A National Match M-1 may be “horsed” pretty hard, and must be to keep a good stable position, without causing an impact shift toward 9 o’clock. The CG63 stock lets its barrel float so is also fairly immune to sling tension bending. Don’t do it with the limber long guns like the M96 issue Swedes, though. They don’t tolerate it well.

CONCLUSIONS

Well, it’s taken about five days to generally summarize about five years testing of about a dozen different rifles, all of the above being brought about by a couple of idle questions arising out unbridled curiosity. Somebody said, I forget who, that the Brits built the battle rifles, the Germans built the hunting rifles and the Americans built the target rifles, and then everybody issued them to their troops. I’d have to call that a tempting oversimplification but in the spirit of the thought would add the Swede to the target rifle classification. When you have a cartridge that you can shoot all day long without undue fatigue and which will deliver a 140-grain bullet into an x-ring group at 600 yards under the same conditions that will drift a 174-grain 30 caliber bullet from one edge of the 10 ring to the other, you have a cartridge with a target advantage. After all, as the old Sarge said, “You can’t miss ‘em hard enough to hurt ‘em.”