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Posted: 8/25/2008 5:36:39 AM EDT
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Man I enjoyed putting rounds downrange with my new 14.5” LMT. For me it was a lot more enjoyable to handle than my HBAR 16” A1 gun. Its solid, no wiggle from top to bottom. The SOPMOD stock is also solid. No wiggle and will actually take time to break in because its tight and hold 2 spare surefire batteries as well as 2 spare Aimpoint CompM3 batteries. I need to get a sling for it but I have something that will hold me over till I get what I want. I didn’t realise that I need to be shooting low at 25 yards so I Will have to revisit the range and re zero my gun. I am familiar now with 2 ½” low at point blank, 1 ½” low at 25 yards = zero at 50 yards. Holdover is a comon practice that I now understand. When I started off the gun was shooting about 7” low and 4” left. I need to rezero my shots for 1 ½” low at 25 yards but here is what I could do with the gun. Basically, at about 20 yards the red dot from the 2moa aimpoint covered the 1 1/8” target dot so I just covered the dot and fired semi rapid / controlled follow shots. Roughtly the 8 shots on 2 dots took me about 10 to 12 seconds I guess. Holding the gun against a tree and just rotating slightly to get onto target. As you can see the right dot fell off after my last shot. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v454/bgoode/Distance-View.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v454/bgoode/before_Shots.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v454/bgoode/After_Shots.jpg Swiping my hand to knock the dust from the plywood so my next stickers will stay caused me to get a sweet little cut from the jacket of a round that you can see about the right group. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v454/bgoode/CUT.jpg Any advise in what I can do better would be great. I know trigger controle will come with practice, wearing my glasses next tile is going to help and possibly better ammo. This ammo was 55 grained “Canned Heat” from Georgia Arms. Rifle had Zero malfunctions of any kind and wasn’t really what I’d call dirty after about 200 rounds. I just need to get my groups lower so I can be ready for the ZOMBIES!!! http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v454/bgoode/LMT_FullRIFLE.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v454/bgoode/LMT_ON_BAG.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v454/bgoode/LMT_ON_BAG_2.jpg |
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Very nice rifle. SOPMOD stocks are great and LMT products are top shelf. You may want to try adjusting your front sight post and zeroing @ 100 yards. At lease for me, I can then do hold overs at 200 and 300 yards with reasonable precision using an LMT BUIS. Have fun 
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Good shooting there, glad you liked your new LMT. My favorite overall use sling for my LMT carbine is my Blue Force Gear Vickers VCAS two point sling, they're very easy to adjust and have very good quality materials and workmanship. Also take a look at Gear Sector GS-2P two point sling, they are modular and easy to configure the way you want it, it have a slightly narrow 1" wide webbing but they're made from tube type webbing and just as comfortable as the standard 1.25" sling webbing. If you want your carbine more securely snug on your body while using your arms I would recommend the Viking Tactics VTAC or LaRue-Viking padded two point slings, they're very easy to tighten. I've got all those slings and I'm very satisfied with them.  When you get your sling I would also recommend getting a M4 type side sling mount either Colt, Stag, RRA, etc. |
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Good job on coming into this the right way. You have yourself a firearm AND an investment with all you have into it. A-R3 above mentioned a side sling swivil, I would reccomend that as well, along with the slings he mentioned. As for your shooting, it is fine. No need to worry about stacking in one hole, you are doing with the rifle what it is ment for. |
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