Finally got the scope on and some time at the range today. Been swamped at work and with my little 18 month old son. To say the least my buddy and I had a blast and I impressed myself with the rifle, even with my beginner shooting skills...
The rifle:
Black SCAR 17S, all mods done myself.
Mods:
-PWS SRX rail extension
-Foregrip: Mako Gen 2 - T-Pod
-Trigger: Geissele Super SCAR
-Charging handle: Stryker Enterprises E.A.C.H.
-BUIS: Troy micro, folding, tritium, HK style
-Grip: Magpul MIAD (took some modding of the lower)
-Safety lever: Magpul SSG
-Magazine lock: Raddlock (not much to brag about here in CA...)
-Folding lock: My custom set up, here: Folding Latch Lockout - Potential new product for non-folding/min length compliance (more CA BS...)
-Rear QD: Custom Noveske flush mount in lower
-Scope: SWFA SS 1-6x
-Scope mount: Bobro 30mm, low, slightly forward (this little gem is a mechanical work of art...)
Results:
It took a lot longer than I had hoped to get sighted in. Was a bit tired from shooting the Benelli M4 shotgun and slugs out to 50 yards along with good old 00 buck closer in. Despite a small waste of ammo, got it close and moved out to 100 yards. Then dialed it in pretty quickly at 100. I was shooting my better quality ammo because I don't have any cheap stuff left. Started off with Federal GMM 168 gr then moved on to the Hornady TAP AMAX 155 gr. The results below are three consecutive (or close to consecutive...) 5 round groups on 3" Shoot-N-Cs, with the Hornady. The groups are 1.5 MOA, 1.6 MOA and 0.8 MOA! For completeness sake I did shoot some other groups around 2-3 MOA as well and those aren't shown. Getting below 1 MOA was a great accomplishment for me on this first day out with a new rifle, a battle rifle at that and me being a fairly novice shooter. By the way the groups were each 5 and only 5 consecutive shots. I'm pretty sure the 0.8 MOA group included a 3 shot group of closer to 0.5 MOA. I don't believe in 3 shot groups, despite their prevalance... The other "strays" you see are my buddies 5.56 shots, also working on a zero. Lastly, I was shooting from a bench, using the Mako Tpod (deployed as a bipod), no bags/rests.
The scope really worked great, love the reticle for both close in and longer range work and the glass is super clear. I played around with the reticle illumination and ended up keeping it on mostly due to the good contrast of the red reticle on the black Shoot-N-C. I can't wait to stretch out the distance a bit with the rifle.
I think with quite a few more rounds down range, and sticking with good factory match quality ammo, I just might be able to consistently shoot around 1 MOA from the bench with this rifle. That is more than I expected from it and from me. I'm already seeing that the rifle can and likely will remain able to outshoot me!
P.S. Absolutely no malfunctions nor surprises of any kind, less the screw on the darn Raddlock coming a bit loose. Time to blue loctite that sucker...
The rifle:
Black SCAR 17S, all mods done myself.
Mods:
-PWS SRX rail extension
-Foregrip: Mako Gen 2 - T-Pod
-Trigger: Geissele Super SCAR
-Charging handle: Stryker Enterprises E.A.C.H.
-BUIS: Troy micro, folding, tritium, HK style
-Grip: Magpul MIAD (took some modding of the lower)
-Safety lever: Magpul SSG
-Magazine lock: Raddlock (not much to brag about here in CA...)
-Folding lock: My custom set up, here: Folding Latch Lockout - Potential new product for non-folding/min length compliance (more CA BS...)
-Rear QD: Custom Noveske flush mount in lower
-Scope: SWFA SS 1-6x
-Scope mount: Bobro 30mm, low, slightly forward (this little gem is a mechanical work of art...)
Results:
It took a lot longer than I had hoped to get sighted in. Was a bit tired from shooting the Benelli M4 shotgun and slugs out to 50 yards along with good old 00 buck closer in. Despite a small waste of ammo, got it close and moved out to 100 yards. Then dialed it in pretty quickly at 100. I was shooting my better quality ammo because I don't have any cheap stuff left. Started off with Federal GMM 168 gr then moved on to the Hornady TAP AMAX 155 gr. The results below are three consecutive (or close to consecutive...) 5 round groups on 3" Shoot-N-Cs, with the Hornady. The groups are 1.5 MOA, 1.6 MOA and 0.8 MOA! For completeness sake I did shoot some other groups around 2-3 MOA as well and those aren't shown. Getting below 1 MOA was a great accomplishment for me on this first day out with a new rifle, a battle rifle at that and me being a fairly novice shooter. By the way the groups were each 5 and only 5 consecutive shots. I'm pretty sure the 0.8 MOA group included a 3 shot group of closer to 0.5 MOA. I don't believe in 3 shot groups, despite their prevalance... The other "strays" you see are my buddies 5.56 shots, also working on a zero. Lastly, I was shooting from a bench, using the Mako Tpod (deployed as a bipod), no bags/rests.
The scope really worked great, love the reticle for both close in and longer range work and the glass is super clear. I played around with the reticle illumination and ended up keeping it on mostly due to the good contrast of the red reticle on the black Shoot-N-C. I can't wait to stretch out the distance a bit with the rifle.
I think with quite a few more rounds down range, and sticking with good factory match quality ammo, I just might be able to consistently shoot around 1 MOA from the bench with this rifle. That is more than I expected from it and from me. I'm already seeing that the rifle can and likely will remain able to outshoot me!
P.S. Absolutely no malfunctions nor surprises of any kind, less the screw on the darn Raddlock coming a bit loose. Time to blue loctite that sucker...
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