Interesting thread. A properly set up 03-A4 replica can be very pleasingly accurate even using period optics. I have a nice rifle ... Rem. 03-A3 rebuilt as a 04 replica. It has the little 2.5x Weaver scope w/ the typical fine crosshairs. At a smidgen over 100 yds., it shoots solid MOA w/ plain Winchester 150 gr. Power Points. With the HXP it will typically do 1.25 MOA for five shot strings. Even when the barrel gets warmish ... POI remains the same. Was sighting it in for deer season. Church member put up a little black stick dot for a aiming point. By then I'd already fired three boxes of ammo. Gun was shooting real good. Fired one round at that little black dot and all of a sudden it as gone. He went down and found it on the ground. Guess the glue was a bit lacking. Nice hole just about perfectly centered. I figured I'd save the rest of that nice Winchester ammo for hunting. Only needed one round when the time came. Nice doe cooperated by jumping a fence just about 150 yds. down a hill. Shot her as she went over the fence. Couldn't have shot her better if she'd have been standing still. Just a really fine rifle. One day ... may put something w/ a bit more horsepower on for a scope. But right now, I'm really liking that little 2.5 Weaver and those Winchester Power Points. Sincerely. bruce.
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