There's a match tomorrow and I've got a mixed bag of 7.5x55 ammo to shoot. It's always better to shoot a match with all the same stuff, because that's one element which insures consistency of performance - but I've got thirty of one and forty of the other. Figuring out what to shoot I came up with this.
On the left in the little boxes is Berdan primed and non-reloadable (without a huge amount of extra effort by me anyhow) Swiss manufacture Gweherpatrone-11. It's good stuff Maynard, top-shelf! When the thousands of Swiss shooters go to their regional matches they all just get handed boxes of the same thing - this stuff - because like a fine Swiss watch or box of chocolates it's high-quality match-grade already. When they're done shooting they just toss the brass because it's hard to reload and because there's much more where that came from, and because they're Europeans who live in an alpine wonderland ski-resort with cheese fondue and wine and yodeling and banks holding half the world's currency (and most small dictatorships' stolen loot), and they don't have to fiddle around with economizing and other cheap crap. No sireee.
It's going in the black cartridge holder and I'll shoot it in the off-hand stage because I once got lucky and got a couple tens with it.
On the right is Boxer primed Serbian made Prvi Partizan. I've loaded the K-31 chargers with four and six rounds, for the rapid seated and the rapid prone stages.
The chargers are kinda funky waxed cardboard and tin things, but work extremely well and dump the rounds easily into the K-31 magazine. During the match I'll load the six-round charger (also known as a stripper clip, but not really in this case) first and do the re-load with the four-rounder. Despite how well they work I have the ability to screw it up in the middle, so I need to reduce that possibility.
The remaining 20 rounds of Privi will be shot in the 20-minute trench of slow-prone. Breathe in, breath out, steady your sights and slowly squeeze the trigger.
Like the Swiss I'll blithely toss the used GP-11 in the brass bucket, and like the poor Serbs I'll scrounge the re-loadable boxer-Partizan brass from the dirt where it lands and save it for a second go 'round.
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