Had a great day at the range today with my Tavor and AAC SDN. Had the breakout put on a couple weeks ago and was just waiting to have a day to take it out to the range and try it out.
The Tavor is a 16 inch barell with the breakout muzzle device and the 7.62 SDN Suppressor. I did my initial zeroing without the suppressor just to see how the muzzle device functioned. It did a nice job of taking up some of the recoil. I didn't expect the amount of blast it produced and it knocked over a bottle of CLP I had on the bench next to me.
I was using and EOtech 512 while I'm saving up for a different optic to put on the Tavor. It only took about 15-20 rounds to get it dialed in and hitting the bullseye consistently at the 50 yd range. Afterwards I did some off hand and really the liked the six points of contact style that the Israelis use. I've shot some high power and Garand matches so the tight ergonomics felt good and I was able to keep decent groups.
Moved over to the 100 yd range and put another 40 rounds down range. Had to make some small adjustments to the elevation but I was punching the center out and keeping consistent groups.
I did learn something valuable today. Suppressors get very hot very quick. I accidentally melted part of the bag I was using as a rest. I didn't realize the can was as close to the bag as it was. Now I have a little bit of the bag melted to the can, oops.
I also learned first hand just how dirty a suppressor is. I had a nice bit of carbon on the side of my face.
I did have a PMAG fail to feed, I believe because of the amount of fouling being pushed through the mag well into the magazine. I attempted to pull he trigger and click no boom. Opened the bolt and I couldn't see any rounds or the follower...bad news. Ejected the mag and cleared the rifle. Checked the magazine and saw that I still had about five rounds left but they were not advancing up the magazine. The follower was stuck and very dirty. This was the first use of that mag with that rifle during the day so it had only had about 25 rounds put through it before it failed to feed.
The PMAGS had been stored fully loaded for a few months and I on,y had issues with that one mag for failure to feed.
I did have another PMAG fail to lock open the bolt on the last round. It also happened with a 20 round GI Colt magazine towards the end of the day.
Total round count for the day was 200 rounds. The first 30 were not suppressed.
I was using Federal 5.56 ball ammo. I'll grab a pic of the box to get the bullet type and lot.
Climate for the day was seasonably cool at 71 degrees F. Winds were 10-15 knots north to south so they were going left to right across the range. Not sure about the humidity but didn't feel to bad. It had rained earlier in the morning and a weather front had moved through.
Had a lot of curious folks on the range that asked me what I was shooting and were impressed with how quiet the suppressor made the rifle when I put it on. The guys next to me were thankful because the person at the bench before me was shooting something that very loud. Not sure what it was though.
I'll post up some target and rifle pics shortly.
Any questions or comments are always welcome.