My first precision semi-auto rifle
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Aero Precision FDE lower
Lapped upper receiver
24" .223Rem Wilson Arms bull barrel
LaRue MBT
Magpul fixed stock
Nikon 3x9x40 BDC scope
Glass needs an upgrade. The handguard is obviously old-school, but has a pic rail at 6 o'clock for a bi-pod. Not sure what scope I'm going to move to, but I'm not wealthy so anything decent in maybe a 6 to 18x would be a big improvement when it comes to shooting tight groups.
Twist rate seems to be 1:8, I'm eager to try to find some 69-75 gr match bullets to load, I have a few pounds of RL-15 for that and 2015, for some Hornady 55gr fmj-bt, not an optimal powder, but it will work or at least I have load data for it, and in these times it's hard to be picky, and I have enough of those for a while. Finding match bullets that I can load to magazine length, that's turned into quite a challenge.
I have 100 or so 75gr ELD projectiles, I bought them, unaware they're not able to be loaded to magazine length, so that's a bummer. Tried to seat one anyway in an empty unprimed case, just to see where the seat depths required to be to meet magazine length, seems to be the case mouth is just into the ogive, so that's unacceptable.
Anyway, thoughts? I was able to get a quick 50yards zero on it with M193. Weather was bad, raining, cold and I was shooting standing shooting off a ladder, but I got it close.
P.S. no signs of over pressure from the M193, in what I'm expecting is a .223Rem chamber since this barrel is from the early 2000s.
