I recently acquired a Larue Tactical OBR with a 20in barrel. I put a Bushnell ET. 3.5-21x50 G2 in an LT-111 on it. Should be a pretty solid setup.
Ok, I'm fairly new to long distance shooting and this is my first precision gas gun. I have a couple decent bolt guns and can shoot ok, not great but with my 700P in 308 have shot several 3in 5 shot groups at 600 yards as a for instance. I'm the second owner of the rifle. The previous owner is a very good shooter, was an army sniper and is currently a consultant over in Kabul. He sold this rifle to fund another project, you know how it is. He put 120rnds through it.
I took the OBR out today, basically my first time out with the rifle. First shooting a box of Federal GMM 175gr earlier this week, none of these cycled the rifle. Then today shooting factory Federal GMM 168gr ammo which cycled the rifle most of the time but still had 5 or 6 out of 25 not fully cycle the rifle. First of all I'm learning this rifle and am figuring out that I basically have to man handle the thing or it won't function. Shooting off a bench, both off a bipod and off a rest, with a bag under the butt as well, if I don't lean into the rifle and pull it back into my shoulder pretty well the gun will want to short stroke. It will eject the empty but not pick up a new round out of the mag. If I get into it, it seems to function well. I guess not getting into it would be the equivalent of "limp wristing" a 1911 45acp? Is this normal? Maybe it's just Federal ammo. I had a few partial boxes of hunting ammo so I tried 5rnds of Winchester 150gr SP, and 6rnds of Remington Corelok to first get the scope close after mounting it and then just as a function check and those all ran fine.
Next question, this could also be a byproduct of not getting into the rifle enough, or is it something else? I went out to a 300 yard target this afternoon. I was getting flyers, and no, this time I did not pay attention to which shot in the 5 shot strings were leaving the group. I'd get 3 or 4 out of 5 shots into really nice groups and then 1 or 2 flyers that would always go low and a little left. I'll include pictures.
These groups shot at 300 yards. All "Flyers" down and a little left. You can see the rifle WANTs to shoot well, 2 of the groups have 3 shots touching and the other has 4 shots into 1.1 inch. at 300 yards
5 shot group.
4 shot group. (moved the turret in the wrong direction for first shot of 5 so only 4 into this group.)
5 shot group.
Ok, I'm fairly new to long distance shooting and this is my first precision gas gun. I have a couple decent bolt guns and can shoot ok, not great but with my 700P in 308 have shot several 3in 5 shot groups at 600 yards as a for instance. I'm the second owner of the rifle. The previous owner is a very good shooter, was an army sniper and is currently a consultant over in Kabul. He sold this rifle to fund another project, you know how it is. He put 120rnds through it.
I took the OBR out today, basically my first time out with the rifle. First shooting a box of Federal GMM 175gr earlier this week, none of these cycled the rifle. Then today shooting factory Federal GMM 168gr ammo which cycled the rifle most of the time but still had 5 or 6 out of 25 not fully cycle the rifle. First of all I'm learning this rifle and am figuring out that I basically have to man handle the thing or it won't function. Shooting off a bench, both off a bipod and off a rest, with a bag under the butt as well, if I don't lean into the rifle and pull it back into my shoulder pretty well the gun will want to short stroke. It will eject the empty but not pick up a new round out of the mag. If I get into it, it seems to function well. I guess not getting into it would be the equivalent of "limp wristing" a 1911 45acp? Is this normal? Maybe it's just Federal ammo. I had a few partial boxes of hunting ammo so I tried 5rnds of Winchester 150gr SP, and 6rnds of Remington Corelok to first get the scope close after mounting it and then just as a function check and those all ran fine.
Next question, this could also be a byproduct of not getting into the rifle enough, or is it something else? I went out to a 300 yard target this afternoon. I was getting flyers, and no, this time I did not pay attention to which shot in the 5 shot strings were leaving the group. I'd get 3 or 4 out of 5 shots into really nice groups and then 1 or 2 flyers that would always go low and a little left. I'll include pictures.
These groups shot at 300 yards. All "Flyers" down and a little left. You can see the rifle WANTs to shoot well, 2 of the groups have 3 shots touching and the other has 4 shots into 1.1 inch. at 300 yards
5 shot group.
4 shot group. (moved the turret in the wrong direction for first shot of 5 so only 4 into this group.)
5 shot group.
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