I woke up super early today to take my new Solus Comp out to the range. It was 22 degrees before wind chill and we had a fresh snow.
I made it to the range, got my target setup, setup my firing position, setup my bipod, and went looking for my ammo bag.
Of course, I forgot my box of 130 grain berger fgmm. Minor melt down, threw everything back in the truck and drove over to Bass pro, found some hornady hunter elr. Not exactly what I wanted but it would have to do.
Finally back at my firing position, I got on paper at 25 yards, then kicked the target back to 100 yards.
First shot was low left, I came up 2 inches, Second round was just below the line but still left so I moved right 2 inches - then it proceeded to put 6 rounds on top of each other. This is my first time shooting a bolt action since the boy scouts. The thing was fucking amazing. I should probably quit now it wasn't going to get any better than this.
It didn't get better, but the rifle shot REALLY well. I was super surprised with how accurate it was. The trigger feel was excellent, the hand placement was great. I need to work on how to use the Atlas Cal bipod better, I kept finding myself with the rifle not level (bubble level on the end of the pic rail under the optic) and unable to flaten it out.
The DNT optic lived up to the hype here. I think my athalon cronus gen 2 might be a hair better, but that is a MSRP 2k optic vs a 600 one and I'd have to have them next to each other to be sure.
I had to leave early today and I lost about an hour of shooting time because of my ammo mix up, but I'm really impressed.
I fired the final 10 rounds at 200 yards on a Steel tree (cleared the plates) and put some good hits on some popper targets. DNT holds were accurate and the diopeter was well marked.
Big thank you to everyone who convinced me that this was the way to go,
@FuhQ @Rob01 etc.
- faylix
I made it to the range, got my target setup, setup my firing position, setup my bipod, and went looking for my ammo bag.
Of course, I forgot my box of 130 grain berger fgmm. Minor melt down, threw everything back in the truck and drove over to Bass pro, found some hornady hunter elr. Not exactly what I wanted but it would have to do.
Finally back at my firing position, I got on paper at 25 yards, then kicked the target back to 100 yards.
First shot was low left, I came up 2 inches, Second round was just below the line but still left so I moved right 2 inches - then it proceeded to put 6 rounds on top of each other. This is my first time shooting a bolt action since the boy scouts. The thing was fucking amazing. I should probably quit now it wasn't going to get any better than this.
It didn't get better, but the rifle shot REALLY well. I was super surprised with how accurate it was. The trigger feel was excellent, the hand placement was great. I need to work on how to use the Atlas Cal bipod better, I kept finding myself with the rifle not level (bubble level on the end of the pic rail under the optic) and unable to flaten it out.
The DNT optic lived up to the hype here. I think my athalon cronus gen 2 might be a hair better, but that is a MSRP 2k optic vs a 600 one and I'd have to have them next to each other to be sure.
I had to leave early today and I lost about an hour of shooting time because of my ammo mix up, but I'm really impressed.
I fired the final 10 rounds at 200 yards on a Steel tree (cleared the plates) and put some good hits on some popper targets. DNT holds were accurate and the diopeter was well marked.
Big thank you to everyone who convinced me that this was the way to go,
@FuhQ @Rob01 etc.
- faylix
