Hey fellas! Yeah, its dark here. It has been for a few hours now.
We got in around 7:30 after packin up from the "range" around 6 or so. Just been busy. Had to eat some dinner, kids had chores...
We got some video for sure! and some pics. I havent even begun to go through the video...
Recoil? What recoil?
It was a dream to shoot! I'll put it all together over the next few days, but I'll give yall the short story for now.
We sighted it at 25 yards. Now, we arent rifle shooters... it took us more than 3 rounds, but less than 50!!!
Ok, it was like 12. By 18 we felt pretty good about it!
We didnt bench the rifle, Allison shot without aid other than kneeling at first, but I used the sling. Dang... the best we got to was 3 rounds in one inch. That was breathing and shooting, fingertip on the trigger, no anticipation of recoil. Well mostly. The first couple times I went to fire and forgot to thumb off the safety I found myself wanting to lean into it! But We got better!
So whats holding us back now is
our abilty to shoot. We kinda suck right now!
But we'll work on it. I think Ally actually had a tighter group between us. At one point we set up 2 targets side x side. I used half a magazine and she fired the other half. She had all but one round in the black rings around the bull with one shot touching the bull. I dont know how big the circle is on our correction targets... Theyre 100 yard targets, I like them to pattern buckshot. I guess its something like a 6 or 8" circle...
We fired both Federal XM193 55 gr. FMJ and Hornady TAP FPD 55 gr. with the polymer tip in the nickel case. Both performed equally well in my very limited knowledge of how all this works, but we grouped each about the same.
There were a couple of feed issues where the bolt locked open... I feel that was due to not having cleaned the rifle before shooting.
I kinda know better than to expect that to go well. This happened maybe 5 or 6 times total through about 200 rounds. Otherwise it was smooth and worked the way its supposed to! Heck, I even got the gas block in the right place on my first try so it actually cycled semi-auto the way its supposed to!!!
I'm also using that M1907 on the sling swivel thats attached to the gas block so I guess I got it tight enough cuz it didnt move under the side force I applied to it while pulling against the sling!
Now in the past, well and in the present too and likely into the future, I've been hard on my shotguns in that I dont often clean them cuz I like to see them continue firing with debris in them. I wont be able to do that with the AR I dont think... At least it comes apart easy, faster in fact than my 590A1.
So for now... whaddya wanna call it? The way we're shootin its about a seven MOA gun?
yeah right, we wont get that close!
The coyotes are gonna be safe from us, (or at least us using a rifle), for now!
Nah, we had a good time! Our range today was the farm and Ally got video of me nearly falling over! I was shooting the 500 Persuader and was perched with my heel on the edge of a hole left by a cow hoof! After firing I tried to stand up straight or step back or something and kinda tripped into the hole!!!
I'm not gonna get to any video tonight, yall are gonna have to wait.
Later!