New H&R 5200

[CalFed]

Won this H&R model 5200 at an auction this evening. Guess it is very similar to the H&R M12.

This one seems to be missing the front sight block. Anyone know where they are available?

[Junk Yard Dog]

Cood deal, I never win anything

[millman]

Very nice rifle. I have one of them as well. Try this place for a front sight block. http://www.champchoice.com/ They should have something that will work. If you plan to scope your rifle, mounts for modern scopes are available, but I went old school, and mounted a 24X Lyman Target Spot on the supplied barrel blocks. Pics of it are here. http://www.russian-mosin-nagant-forum.c ... ?f=8&t=141

[CalFed]

Thanks, guys.

Great looking rifle, millman. I hope mine shoots as well.

I have several Redfield sight sets that should work...International and Palma, as well as Olympic front globes. Just need a front block for the globe

[Koada]

SWEET!! I love .22's With my new to me M-69 and the Marlin/Glenfield 75c I just picked up...I now have 1 pistol, 1 revolver, 1 Cricket rifle for my grand daughter:) and one of the new Marlin X-T .22R rifles and a Henry AR-7 Survival rifle...and more to come I am sure...would love to score a Remington #5 at a good price...Like I told my grandson...a .22 is your friend..And you scored on a beauty for sure..

[millman]

CalFed, FWIW the original 5200 block is a stepped one. I assume the lower step is for 100 yards/meters, and the higher for 50. Also, I am sure you have found it but here are some pics of the manual. One more thing. Mine is quite the shooter with SK standard + ammo. I have used more expensive ammo without any noticable improvement.

[CalFed]

Thanks, mm

I appreciate the tips

[millman]

Glad to help. Nobody has a bunch of info about these, but I do have quite a bit of practical experience. Will help if I can. There is a fellow on Rimfire Central with one that he has glass bedded, recrowned, new stock, the works. His doesn't shoot any better than my box stock one. My advice is to shoot it and get used to it before you think of tweaking on it. Good luck.

[Junk Yard Dog]

I bet that burns his ass, like when I pull out my most issued looking of M39's or the 91/59 and outshoot much more expensive and tweaked sporting rifles. At short range anyway, my vision goes to hell past 75-100 yards.

[bunkysdad]

I have the most trouble seeing up close. Without reading glasses I wouldn't be able to type this response. You found yourself an amazing bolt 22 target rifle.

[Celt]

Congratulations!
I won a cheese burger from McDonalds once.

[CalFed]

Let me be clear..."won" in this context means that I "won" the right to pay the high bid (which mine was) for this rifle.

[CalFed]

A buddy is putting on a small bore "match stick match" on Monday, so I used a Viani scope mount and mounted a B&L 6-24 scope on this one. I took it to the range yesterday along with a Remington 513T that I will be using (my younger son will use the H&R).

Both rifles shot well, but as the practice session went on, the H&R developed a habit of not extracting the shells. Toward the end, every shell had to be pushed out with a brass rod from the bore.

Anyone know what could cause this?

[Junk Yard Dog]

Could it just need a good cleaning? .22's can dirty up a rifles action pretty quick, and .22 extractor claws are tiny. Clean the chamber, clean the action.

[millman]

The 5200s have a pretty tight match chamber. It could just be dirty like JYD says.

[CalFed]

Could be right about this...the bolt was somewhat difficult to turn when chambering a round...I assumed it was a "match chamber" issue, but I haven't cleaned it since I got it. Also, it started out working fine...after 70 or 80 rounds, the problem started.

Thanks.

[CalFed]

I cleaned the bolt, chamber and barrel and got only 1 failure to extract at the match.

My son and I shot the match yesterday, he with the 5200, me with a scoped Remington 513T. I mounted a Bausch and Lomb 6-24X scope on the 5200 and a Bushnell 3200 Elite 10X on the Remington.




It was pretty cold (low 30's) for these parts and it seemed to have affected the zero of the rifles. Winds were light and variable. We had to re-zero the rifles a bit to get them back on target. The match was shot off a sand bag front rest, no (except for your hand) rear rest At 50 yards.

Here is my son's warm up target. Unfortunately we turned in our official targets.



The bullseyes on the left and right were to warm up and re-zero the rifle. The center group was a 4 shot (.403") group to confirm the re-zero. You can see some of my son's match stick hits as he settled in on the target. He was using the CMP black box practice ammo.

I'm kinda interested in what honest-to-God target ammo would do.

[bunkysdad]

Calfed that is a beautiful rifle.

[CalFed]

Thanks, bunkysdad. I've got two H&R M12's that are very similar to this one, but with birch stocks. Not as nice looking as the walnut, IMO.

[Junk Yard Dog]