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Posted: 12/4/2009 10:20:50 PM EDT
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Could throwing on one of those nicer Russian scopes such as this one: http://www.binocularsmart.com/scopes/ak-akm-svd-rifle-scopes-1p21-po-4-12x42.shtml
make it a little more accurate? With good ammo of course |
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That particular scope will make it harder to print on paper at any distance less than 400m. The magnification is tied to the range on the BDC. 3x 300m, 4x 400m, ... 9x 900m. So, if you are shooting at 100m the magnification will only be at 3x versus the stock 4x. It also will print high by about 4" at 100m when set at 3x/300m. That said I have that scope and I am shooting 1.5 moa 5 shot groups within 300m on the 3x300m setting. Not to brag, but I am a fairly good shot and I am using the ammo my rifle likes and this is why I am getting tight groups, independent of the magnification of the scope on my rifle.
Other more powerful magnification scopes may help you though because the tip of the inverted chevron will take up less space on the target and the higher magnification will aid you in better seing your errors prior to pulling the trigger. No offense intended, but every time I hear about people having issues with accuracy in a rifle I have experience shootting well with, particularly the PSL because people offten bash or complain about its accuracy, I am inclined to think that the shooter needs some practice or the ammo they are using is crap or both. So my advice is this: go practice the basics on a .22 then when you are shooting really well with that get your PSL, make sure the scope is adjusted properly (fits firmly, no wobble in mounting or in any of the parts, and is at least on paper at 100m when the BDC is set at 100m), find the correct ammo for your PSL (This may take just a little experimentation, but I've had VERY good luck with Bulgarian and I've also heard good reports with Czech sivertip and Russian), and if you are having a hard time seeing the target properly at the distance you are shooting at or your stock LPS-TIP2 is damaged (it should have very clear glass) then get another scope. The reason myself and others have had good luck with our PSL is generally because we follow this common-sense aproach. Making sure you are down with the propper fundamentals I know helps me a lot more than almost anything in shooting well. Shooting is a perishable skill and after not doing it for a while most people need to take a little time to recover the fundamentals so they can once again shoot well. I've seen too many people forget common-sense things like this and have it impact their shooting (while some are complaining about their rifle, others just scratching their heads at their results). |
| No amount of magnification can make a gun more accurate. I've found the LPS 4X6 TIP2 to be more than enough magnification out to the 300m max I shoot. With my PSL I can hit a tennis ball at 300m with my 60 year old eyes, bi-focals and resting on a pack. My PSL in "as issued" configuration is as accurate as I will ever need in a .30 cal rifle. I'm not a competition shooter so I'm not interested in postage stamp groups on paper nor do I own a target rifle. |
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Well...yes and no. Under ideal conditions the Mk 1 Mod 0 human eyeball can detect differences as small as 1/5000 of an inch. Doing that requires high contrast and sharp lines.
No amount of magnification can make a gun more accurate. I've found the LPS 4X6 TIP2 to be more than enough magnification out to the 300m max I shoot. With my PSL I can hit a tennis ball at 300m with my 60 year old eyes, bi-focals and resting on a pack. My PSL in "as issued" configuration is as accurate as I will ever need in a .30 cal rifle. I'm not a competition shooter so I'm not interested in postage stamp groups on paper nor do I own a target rifle. So with a lower powered optic, or for that matter with well designd iron sights, you can get superb accuracy if the lighting and sight picture are such that you have high contrast and small differences between various aspects of the sight picture. For example, when shooting at a bullseye with match grade iron sights with an M-14 you can get a very consistent sight picture if you leave a very thin white space between front post and bull - you can judge the width of the line between them more accurately than the black on black of the post touching the bottom of the bull. However, under less than ideal conditions, more magnification, and more importantly, better resolultion of the target can greatly improve accuracy by producing better conditions for the eye to maintain consistent sight alignment. Resolultion depends on both the aperture and the quality of the optics. Higher maginification places greater demand on the objective lens in terms of both light gathering power and optical quality. So if you step up to one of the 6x42 or 8x42 Soviet scopes, you do get more magnification, but you also get a larger objective lens and in my opinion, better quality optics that improve resolution and accuracy in some circumstances. The difference may be the difference between hitting an orange or yellow tennis ball at 300 m and being able to even see a tan painted tennis ball at 300 m against a dry grass colored background. In my experience, the 6x42 scope allows better accuracy than the PSO/4x6 TIP2 scope (a 24mm objective lens) that came on my PSL. |
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