Posted: 9/19/2014 2:55:04 PM EDT
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I knew whatcha meant, hence the winky face. I agree with the red. I put a non-FF carbine barrel on my NM AR for the winter HP matches last year, and my average score dropped about 10-15 points. I think half of those points lost were because of the sight radius and the other half because it wasn't a match grade barrel - it was surprisingly indifferent to varying sling tension.
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When I'm looking at the ghost ring on a carbine, everything is blurrier.
"Well, there's your problem!"
You're supposed to focus on the front sight. The aperture should always be fuzzy in your peripheral.
I think JJREA means the entire sight picture is blurrier (front sight post included) when using irons on a carbine due to the shorter sight radius - especially for us guys with older eyes. I agree it is easier to focus on the front sight with a rifle's longer sight radius.
I took the rifle out to 200 yards the other day and it was easy to ring the E-type silhouette with the 2x ACOG. I was able to group 3 shots into about 3" using Southwest Ammo 75gr match 5.56. Not a definitive measure of accuracy for sure, but not bad, either.
Yeah, the way I said it was misleading. I apologize. I know to focus on the front sight. But as Glenn said, it's ALL blurrier with a carbine for me. But drastically so when "employing" the ghost ring. It's not bad when using the small ap, but it's just something noteworthy that everything becomes crisper to my eyes when using the rifle length sights. And I like shooting irons, so..... Carbines annoy me this way. I like the ghost ring sight but if I have a carbine, and my eyes are watering and bugging out trying to shoot with them, it's not a good thing. So........ the point of all of it is, the rifle has it's upsides. A lot of people want to overlook them, but they're there.
Most people would say, well you need an RDS. My eyes have issues with them too. Anyways..... I like rifles. There's a lot to like about them. Yeah, if I was clearing houses regularly, I might not. But I don't, so......
I knew whatcha meant, hence the winky face. I agree with the red. I put a non-FF carbine barrel on my NM AR for the winter HP matches last year, and my average score dropped about 10-15 points. I think half of those points lost were because of the sight radius and the other half because it wasn't a match grade barrel - it was surprisingly indifferent to varying sling tension.
That's interesting about the sling tension. Because my 20" govt definitely is affected by torquing on it. But yeah, I can see how your scores dropped. Combat Diver says he can shoot almost as well with his carbine out to 500 and I believe him. But I think he's superhuman. LOL. Well, that's not an exact quote, so I hope I'm not misrepresenting what he says. Anyways....
We're probably always going to be in the minority when expounding the positives of the rifle.
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