I've had my LPR for a few weeks now, and felt I owed it to the hide to post up a range report in return for all the advice I got pre purchase. First, a picture of the setup to keep those of you with ADD interested:
SR-15 Light Precision Rifle with a Magpul STR stock and MIAD grip added, KAC 34mm mount holding a Leupold Mark 6 H58 optic, and a Surefire FH556-212 flash hider serving as a mount for a Surefire MINI suppressor.
This rifle is a shooter. In typical internet fashion, I'll say "it shoots sub half MOA all day long, when I do my part, as referenced by this single group:"
Now that we got that out of the way, here is the raw data on how it ACTUALLY shot, and why I feel that it is a real accurate platform:
For four ammo types, I shot four groups of 5 shots, in a column. I'll describe each as follows:
The leftmost column is American Eagle Varmint Tip, NOT MATCH AMMO, and it shot pretty damn good. Average was 1.155", 1.104 MOA. You can see that one really bad round on the last group spoiled an otherwise very respectable sub MOA average with cheap ammo.
Next (moving to the second column of groups, left to right,) is Federal Gold Medal Match 69 grain SMK ammo. This ammo performed well, averaging .8475", 0.809 MOA. Pretty consistent, with no super tight groups or major fliers to distort the numbers.
The third group of 4 groups of 5 was fired with Hornady Match 75 grain ammo. The gun did NOT like this ammo. It performed poorly. The average was 1.2445", 1.188 MOA, which is too bad, because at about $0.75 a round, if it hammered, I wouldn't bother to hand load. But, it was not meant to be with this ammo.
The last column was shot with Norma Match 77 SMK ammo. This stuff was expensive at $26.95 a box of 20, but I justified it by saying to myself "if nothing else I'll have some once fired Norma brass when I'm done shooting with it." The performance was really good, averaging 0.842," 0.804 MOA. The first group was a screamer, measuring 0.428"/0.409 MOA. It instilled confidence that I can develop a mid range load to shoot this gun at distance, as 77 SMK's are some of the better bullets going for a mag fed AR-15 platform that is intended to be shot to 600 yards or so.
In conclusion? I'm glad I got it. I like it enough to invest in a .223/5.56 loading setup, as I believe this gun is capable of breaking into the .6" average range, MAYBE better with the right handloads. It should be noted as well that all groups were shot by me, I shot them prone off a bipod and a rear bag, so there was a human element involved. Also, I wanted to post up a true, honest range report, as too often guys post up cherry picked groups giving the internet reader unrealistic expectations of what their new rifle will shoot.
This LPR averaged 0.80X MOA with two different ammo types over a statistically relevant sample size, so I'm happy with it as a starting point. For what it's worth also, the average for all 16 groups of 5 shots fired (80 rounds) was 1.023"/0.977 MOA, so in some sense of the word, it is fair to say that it shoots sub MOA "all day long," at least if you consider "all day long" to be an average and not a literal every group definition.
I hope you enjoyed this range report, I enjoyed putting it together.
-Bob
SR-15 Light Precision Rifle with a Magpul STR stock and MIAD grip added, KAC 34mm mount holding a Leupold Mark 6 H58 optic, and a Surefire FH556-212 flash hider serving as a mount for a Surefire MINI suppressor.
This rifle is a shooter. In typical internet fashion, I'll say "it shoots sub half MOA all day long, when I do my part, as referenced by this single group:"
Now that we got that out of the way, here is the raw data on how it ACTUALLY shot, and why I feel that it is a real accurate platform:
For four ammo types, I shot four groups of 5 shots, in a column. I'll describe each as follows:
The leftmost column is American Eagle Varmint Tip, NOT MATCH AMMO, and it shot pretty damn good. Average was 1.155", 1.104 MOA. You can see that one really bad round on the last group spoiled an otherwise very respectable sub MOA average with cheap ammo.
Next (moving to the second column of groups, left to right,) is Federal Gold Medal Match 69 grain SMK ammo. This ammo performed well, averaging .8475", 0.809 MOA. Pretty consistent, with no super tight groups or major fliers to distort the numbers.
The third group of 4 groups of 5 was fired with Hornady Match 75 grain ammo. The gun did NOT like this ammo. It performed poorly. The average was 1.2445", 1.188 MOA, which is too bad, because at about $0.75 a round, if it hammered, I wouldn't bother to hand load. But, it was not meant to be with this ammo.
The last column was shot with Norma Match 77 SMK ammo. This stuff was expensive at $26.95 a box of 20, but I justified it by saying to myself "if nothing else I'll have some once fired Norma brass when I'm done shooting with it." The performance was really good, averaging 0.842," 0.804 MOA. The first group was a screamer, measuring 0.428"/0.409 MOA. It instilled confidence that I can develop a mid range load to shoot this gun at distance, as 77 SMK's are some of the better bullets going for a mag fed AR-15 platform that is intended to be shot to 600 yards or so.
In conclusion? I'm glad I got it. I like it enough to invest in a .223/5.56 loading setup, as I believe this gun is capable of breaking into the .6" average range, MAYBE better with the right handloads. It should be noted as well that all groups were shot by me, I shot them prone off a bipod and a rear bag, so there was a human element involved. Also, I wanted to post up a true, honest range report, as too often guys post up cherry picked groups giving the internet reader unrealistic expectations of what their new rifle will shoot.
This LPR averaged 0.80X MOA with two different ammo types over a statistically relevant sample size, so I'm happy with it as a starting point. For what it's worth also, the average for all 16 groups of 5 shots fired (80 rounds) was 1.023"/0.977 MOA, so in some sense of the word, it is fair to say that it shoots sub MOA "all day long," at least if you consider "all day long" to be an average and not a literal every group definition.
I hope you enjoyed this range report, I enjoyed putting it together.
-Bob
