Posted: 11/14/2008 1:13:07 PM EDT
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I have had my Entry Tactical for little over a month now. And today was the first i got to shoot it. I had a little problem with having no rear sight when I first got the rifle... took about 3 weeks but finally got it, not RRA's fault.
So, as a "Fudd" (man i love this site sometimes  ) , dad and I went out to make sure our Remington Model 700s were shooting right. Took my new RRA Entry Tactical with me too.
Got our deer rifles squared away, now it was time for some fun. Loaded 4 magazines with 4 rounds each while sighting it in. Hitting low at 25 yards, and I was unaware you need a front post tool to turn it.. need to get one... but we got it adjusted, but put a few scratches on the front sight, oh well. After that. We, dad and I, were nailing the target. Im not a great shot by any means. I suck with a scoped rifle. But I was wearing the 4" black circle out at 25 yards. For me that was awesome. Dad moved the target back to 50, I didn't think id even get on paper, but STANDING free handed, i put about 90% of them in the black circle! This thing is a shooter! I love it! I put out some water bottles any where from 10-30 yards, with 10 rounds, I hit them 7 out of 10 times id guess, at a pretty decent rate of fire. Dad looked at me and said, you didn't leave me nothing to shoot at :P Eventhe 20 rounds of wolf ammo I had feed through it great! Question. This happened to me twice, and dad once. We hit the Bolt release after loading a new magazine, im pretty sure I fully seated the magazine cause I gave it a tug, and or smack each time. and when we hit the bolt release those few times, the bolt would.. (im bad at explaining). It would miss the butt of the cartidge, but then hit the center of the cartidge's body, and stop. Our fix was to pull the bolt back again and let it fall. and it would chamber the round perfectly then. Any reason why that happened? Dad was in the national guard, he didn't understand why it happened. Any ideas? |
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Not sure from the description of the problem. I'll talk to our lead armorer and see if he can help.
If you want fun interactive targets, next Nov 1, go by whereever has leftover halloween pumpkins. I buythem for next to nothing. In this part of the country, they've normally been sitting outside the grocery store or garden center for a month or so, getting hot, and cold, rained on, etc...so wen you shoot them at 100yds later that afternoon, many of them provide a very satisfying explosive decompression. Pumpkin "guts" everywhere. And for our green friends, they are completely natural, have already been plunderd from their "birth patch", and are fully biodegradable. Steve/RRA |
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Ill keep the pumpkin idea in mind, I was really shocked I was so accurate with it. iv shot .22LR rifles before, well... ill say I was so-so. but every tihng I pointed the barrel at died,, or came about 1" from it :P
yeah the problem I had, was to bolt not watching the end of the cartidge, then 'riding up' on the body of the cartidge and getting jammed. pull the bolt back drop it, no problem. I can't recall if it was with the same magazine or not... I dont think it was... unless you have an idea ill just have to pay mopre attention next time, im just hoping it was something i didn't notice... awsome rifle, didn't shoot it much, maybe 60-80 rounds, cant reall now, but ammo is too expensive right now to go blasting through the small collection of 600 rounds i had before i went to shoot. Worth the wait, i got a bit antsy on here, but well worth it :) |