Posted: 12/9/2009 1:19:17 PM EDT
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Since it always seems I'm posting to give Larue a hard time about something they are doing (or not doing or talking about), I thought it only fair to post a realization I had today about what I think about the products themselves.
My normal practice rifle is a 223 remington700 in an AICS stock with an ATLAS bipod and accushot monopod. The optic (a nightforce) is in the larue Remington mount on the larue remington base (I'm sure one of the Marks can recite the part # from memory). (I own a complete larue rifle, but part of the reason for the remington is load development and testing, if I'm going to blow up a gun, its going to be a cheap one  ).
I had this mount combination on a 308 r700 that I took for a week of long range shooting class in AZ, and every day the scope came off the gun and every morning it went back on. Didnt have issue 1 with the zero, everyone else thought I was nuts for messing with the optic. When I came back I put the scope/mount/base on the 223 gun. Was at the range last night and took the first shot, which came (and continued through 10 shots) at 2" low at 100y from the zero I had established (and used for a few weeks) on the load I had. I clicked up .5Mil and went on with it (.75MOA on the next and best 10 shot group, not bad for frozen fingers). Afterwards I was trying to figure out WTH happened, temperature? difference in harmonics due to some work I had done (trigger replacement)?, positional error?, dirty gun? Never occured to me to blame the mount, not for a second. What was the cause? 1d10t user error, when I looked at it again at hom I had put the mount on 1 rib too far back when I put everything back together after changing the trigger..... 
So yeah, Larue makes great stuff, dont screw it up not paying attention to what you are doing when you use it. |
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Nah, I know where the scope goes on the rail, I just failed to put it there  Interesting fatebringer, With my tests here, I can easily show repeatability to under .100" (one hundred thousandths) at 100 yards ... but a .mil group told me their tests showed .085 moa. During these in-house tests, it was ascertained that tooth location is critical ... thus the new slot markers. 
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Nah, I know where the scope goes on the rail, I just failed to put it there Interesting fatebringer, With my tests here, I can easily show repeatability to under .100" (one hundred thousandths) at 100 yards ... but a .mil group told me their tests showed .085 moa. During these in-house tests, it was ascertained that tooth location is critical ... thus the new slot markers.
ML I'll go along with that, jibes with what I saw in Arizona, never saw a change worth changing by even .1Mil , pull rifle out of the case, put the scope on it, get in the truck to the 1500y range, confirm zeros to 300M on paper (dont change anything) start shooting further. Did it two days in a row putting the cold bore shot dead center in the 100y target, quit checking after that. Like I said, works if you stick the teeth in the right slots, I always use 3 visible slots, problem is it had been on there so long in the safe I forgot whether I was using 3 fully visible or just partially visible ones. |