I took it out and shot it Sunday at the last FDCC shoot. My apologies to all the FDCC shooters. I wasnt doing very much to help out between my turn to compete, I was over at the bench breaking in the barrel. Thanks to AEM for helping with that. All in all I put 150 rounds of Black Hills 77gr blue box through it, without a hiccup. Thanks to
Tommy and GA Precision for getting the ammo to me in short order at a good price. And last but not least, thanks to
Wes and MSTN for so much help with getting the rifle together.
After about 30 rounds of not shooting at anything during the break in, I decided to put up a target at 50 and at least make sure I was on paper. The last 45 rounds of break in got me in at 50 and then at 100.
I let the barrel cool for the third time and sat down to see what I could do with it. The first thing I noticed is that this bi-pod sucks for bench shooting. It puts the rifle up real high and I can get in on the scope very well. Oddly enough, I always feel like I do my best shooting from prone, so I took it on to the grass. Ahhhh! Much better. From prone I was much better able to get in behind the rifle in a comfortable and solid position.
Now that I was sighted in at 100, the first thing I did from prone was see where I was hitting at 300. Once I did that, me and the owners son had a blast shooting clays at 300. He has a modified Bushmaster V-Match with an awfully nice Jewell trigger. When all the clays were gone, we had fun shooting pieces of clays.
I wanted to let the barrel cool again before I started to shoot for groups. After a little break, I hunkered down in the grass again and started shooting at a 1" orange paster on a paper plate. I shot 3 seperate groups of 5 at the same target. There were two serious fliers, one high and one low. The distance from the high to the low one was just more than 2". Aside from these two, the rest of the 13 shots were all inside 1.5".
The last thing I wanted to do was shoot a couple more 5 shot groups. One at 100 and the other at 300. Im glad I did. Both of these groups proved to be pretty cool in their own way. Nothing completely spectacular about them really, but interesting none the less. The first was at 100. Its not a particularly awe inspiring group really. Its just slightly less than 3/4" from center to center and as you can see, I still need to come about a click down. What I was stoked about was that it looks like a 3 shot group. But its 5.
The 300 yard group was equally unimpressive in that it was a good 3.5" low, but the group was pretty inspirational. Another 5 shots. 4 of which would have thrilled me at 100 yards, much less 300. But even with the 5th flier, it is still just under 2" at 300!
Finally, heres some pics of the rifle and some a few friends snapped of me while I was down there with the ants biting me! It was a fun day and I cant wait to get out there and shoot this thing some more! Sadly, it will probably be about 2 weeks before I get another opportunity