Eurodriver
01-06-12, 14:52
Yesterday I was unsuccessful at getting a good zero. Spotting scope troubles plagued me along with high winds and mirage.
I went back to the range today. I am VERY impressed with both of these rifles. The wind and mirage died down allowing me to actually get the rifle zerod effectively and these are the results...
For reference: Here are the two rifles I am shooting with.
A 12.5" BCM SS upper with a TA31 ACOG
and
A 10.3" (daniel defense 16" barrel cut to 10.3") with a Centurion 9" rail and Noveske receiver using an Aimpoint T1
http://img684.imageshack.us/img684/6206/riflesu.jpg
Here is my "rest". Not very effective but its all I had. I don't normally shoot from a rest but I wanted to eliminate as much of me as possible. Remember, the point of this is to prove that SBRs aren't "useless" at long range, not that I am a good shooter.
http://img846.imageshack.us/img846/7792/restf.jpg
This is 300 yards with the 12.5" using Hornady Superperformance 53gr.
http://img713.imageshack.us/img713/6733/300y125.jpg
This is 200 yards with the 10.3" using M855 62gr Green Tip .mil ammo I was blown away by this. I was looking through my spotting scope after each round questioning myself "Is that really a new hole in the bullseye?" repeatedly...
http://img7.imageshack.us/img7/5964/200y103.jpg
Then I moved the 12.5" to 565 yards. For a target I taped two targets backwards on top of one another and one black 8" circle. I then drew in a "body". I wanted the target at this distance to be as clean as possible so I was not distracted. The BDC in the ACOG covers up the 8" circle at that distance.
http://img221.imageshack.us/img221/372/poaf.jpg
This is the result with M855. This is not with match ammunition. I fired 10 rounds unsuppressed and then 10 rounds suppressed (unsuppressed are circled, suppressed are lined out. One round on each string of fire impacted the black) It appears that the group actually opened up a bit suppressed, but this was by no means scientific and that could have easily been user error. There was no real measurable shift in POI however.
http://img685.imageshack.us/img685/6797/2ndgroup565.jpg
I went back to the range today. I am VERY impressed with both of these rifles. The wind and mirage died down allowing me to actually get the rifle zerod effectively and these are the results...
For reference: Here are the two rifles I am shooting with.
A 12.5" BCM SS upper with a TA31 ACOG
and
A 10.3" (daniel defense 16" barrel cut to 10.3") with a Centurion 9" rail and Noveske receiver using an Aimpoint T1
http://img684.imageshack.us/img684/6206/riflesu.jpg
Here is my "rest". Not very effective but its all I had. I don't normally shoot from a rest but I wanted to eliminate as much of me as possible. Remember, the point of this is to prove that SBRs aren't "useless" at long range, not that I am a good shooter.
http://img846.imageshack.us/img846/7792/restf.jpg
This is 300 yards with the 12.5" using Hornady Superperformance 53gr.
http://img713.imageshack.us/img713/6733/300y125.jpg
This is 200 yards with the 10.3" using M855 62gr Green Tip .mil ammo I was blown away by this. I was looking through my spotting scope after each round questioning myself "Is that really a new hole in the bullseye?" repeatedly...
http://img7.imageshack.us/img7/5964/200y103.jpg
Then I moved the 12.5" to 565 yards. For a target I taped two targets backwards on top of one another and one black 8" circle. I then drew in a "body". I wanted the target at this distance to be as clean as possible so I was not distracted. The BDC in the ACOG covers up the 8" circle at that distance.
http://img221.imageshack.us/img221/372/poaf.jpg
This is the result with M855. This is not with match ammunition. I fired 10 rounds unsuppressed and then 10 rounds suppressed (unsuppressed are circled, suppressed are lined out. One round on each string of fire impacted the black) It appears that the group actually opened up a bit suppressed, but this was by no means scientific and that could have easily been user error. There was no real measurable shift in POI however.
http://img685.imageshack.us/img685/6797/2ndgroup565.jpg