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I bought one!!!!!

I paid $175 plus tax. I put some Wolf MT through it today and have some observations.

The sights are pretty crude to a guy used to Tech Sights. The front sight is very thick and the top corner facing the shooter was not a crisp clean corner, but an unevenly rounded point. The sight was also slightly tilted to the right. I loosened the set screw and tilted it back to as straight as I could, but the tiny set screw holding the sight stripped under very light torque. I drilled it out and tapped it for 6-32. I cut a sharp point on the set screw so it would partially fit back into the hole provided in the barrel. Problem solved much better than new.

I didn't notice the rear sight was loose until I had fired a few dozen rounds. I had to disassemble the rear sight to tighten the single screw that holds it.  Careful. The detent for the windage knob is super tiny. There is a spring under the sight that is pretty small too. Once tightened it did not come loose again.

The wide sight had to go. I used a file to make the sight almost half the width it was and I want to make it a little thinner yet. I will post pictures once I have it finished. I cleaned it up so the corner is nice and sharp too.


The rifle is showing very high accuracy potential. I put several shots touching over and over. I did have several issues that made really tight 5 shot groups problematic.

One: the rear sight is not a terribly solid unit. The small spring under the sight holds the sight up against the slop in the screw that holds the sight. I am going to have to come up with a way to make the sight a little more solid. I might try wedging something under the sight to make it a little less wiggly. I'll work it out soon.

Second: the glare off the rear sight was pretty intense this evening. Pretty hard to make sure you are really lined up with so much shiny. I might try to file it a bit to make it less shiny.

Third: Zero for Wolf MT is between the last two notches. I am going to drill a new hole so it will have a click right at my 50 yard setting once I finalize my sight in at 50.


All this typing and I haven't gotten to the good part. I was consistently putting shots on top of shots and the wild swings in the groups got better as I worked through the bugs. The rifle looks to be stone dead accurate. When the sights were working it pretty much stacked shots at 25 yards. I just had issues keeping the groups in the same spot. The sights are too toyish, but I am working it out.

This rifle needs a red dot to be more affective in low light levels or darkness. It think it will really shine once it's got a better sight.

I really like this little rifle. A few improvements and it will be a awesome accurate reliable little game getter.

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I finished sighting in the open sights today.  I wasn't at my best but holding a 2" group at 50 yards was doable.  Definitely not easy.  I would be confident with head shots on squirrels at 30 yards with the open sights. Better with more trigger time.

I mounted up a Bushnell trs 25. Sighted it in for 50 yards too. That was a lot more fun! I was close to 1" at 50 yards.


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The two groups on the right are 1" stickers. I almost had 1" groups! Better shoot it some more!


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I forgot to measure the trigger pull weight before I started working on it.  I would guess 7-8lbs. I polished up the surfaces and took away a tiny amount of hook in the sear surface on the hammer.  Dropped to a very nice, bump proof 3lbs.  That should drop my group sizes quite a bit more.  

I know I will get some grief for going down to 3lbs on a survival rifle,  but a good trigger will get more game than a target rifle work a crappy trigger.  Shooting off hand, a good trigger might mean eating or not. I shot competition with 22's off hand so I actually shot a lot of stuff in the woods with rifles.

This rifle is inherently safe so I am really not worried about it.  

I might not like the stock sights, but I love this little rifle!

ETA: The trigger turned out really nice. Very clean, snappy 3lbs. I am very pleased! The whole package with the sight is 3lbs 3oz

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mine was dead nuts on out of the box.  didn't even have to adjust the rear sight at all.

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That  piece of picatinny rail behind the trigger guard is dumb.  They don't kick to need a grip, so why put it there.  

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it's not even wide as a regular rail.

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That  piece of picatinny rail behind the trigger guard is dumb.  They don't kick to need a grip, so why put it there.  

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If the Little Badger is going to be considered a survival rifle, useful in a unforeseen situation, it must have some on board ammo storage. Not that horribly executed ammo holder built into the stock, but a real way to keep ammo with the rifle that does not effect the function of the rifle.

This is my first and probably last attempt at putting a pouch on the wire stock. It may not look nice, but it is barely noticeable when shouldering the rifle. My face barely touches the top of the pouch flap when I am shooting. There is no pressure at all.

The pouch is a reproduction of an old army bandage pouch. I have many of them, but this is the only one with double clip slots in the back. It holds 100 rounds in a plastic zip lock bag inside the pouch. Without the zip lock the pouch would not work because the flap is not tight enough to keep the rounds in, but I also want to protect the rounds from moisture and dirt.

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This picture shows how I used zip ties to hold it around the original ammo holder so it can't move around while walking or shooting. This could still be done with a single loop pouch as long as two zip ties were used to capture it on both sides of the old ammo holder.

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