WONDERFUL! Had a great time. My buddy George brought his S&W M4gery, and I had the GAU-5A/A and 601 clone. First I shot the GAU. I mostly did 25 yard battle sight check, since it was windy as hell. am going back in a cople weeks to do 100 and 200 yards with it. (The long range guys were having fits with the erratic gusts!) I mainly wanted to do a fine tune i on the 1.25" below POA battle sight, and I had to spend most of my time on the pistol range shooting two pistols for magazine articles I am doing. The GAU was first, and I had to dial it in, two right anf one click back, but elevation was OK. Groups a little over an inch, which is not great at 100, even though it is a 16" barrel. The show pony was the 601 clone. Best group was 7/16" center to center, and average of 9/16" center to center. That should translate to about 2- 2.5 MOA. Not bad for is a late 60s vintage CMP C (though I put CMP B on target-senior moment). My retros outshot the M4gery, by the way!
I don't have pretty girls in the range pictures, just a bald old Irishman (me).
Me with my faux-GAU-5A/A:
GAU target:
Me with the 601 clone:
601 targets:
I also shot my buddy's S&W M&P-15 M4gery. Oh my God! He took a perfectly delightful 6 pound carbine and made it a 10 pound rifle: rails, grips, bipod, light, laser, scope with a mini-EOTech on top. Ugh. It had a 9 pound lawyer trigger (which I am going to correct for him). I prefer any retro to it, and even prefer my M1 Carbine for CQB rather than the tacticool M4gery.