Well first two days at the range were quite frustrating because I’m an idiot and forgot to bring appropriate targets to zero the gun and had no one spotting for me so had a great deal of difficulty trying to see where I was hitting.
but today I fixed it.
Using mk262 I got from
@JShirley I threw round 1 on paper at 100 yards and made a major adjustment. Fired 2 and 3 and made a minor adjustment. Fired 4,5,6 and it’s good enough for shooting off one small bag. Might fine tune it a bit more after I’ve got a few hundred rounds through it.
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but mk262 is expensive so I tried my old fav prvi partisan m193…. After the first round (top in group) I seriously thought my scope adjustment had slipped (yesterday I set the zero hold feature improperly after I had zeroed the gun and that knocked the POI up roughly 2mils. So I thought it had slipped again as I was spinning the knob). But no. After a second shot was still high but only half as high, I decided to check by shooting one more round of mk262 which landed pretty centered in the dot. Zero is obviously still good. So one more round of m193 seemed to confirm this rifle just doesn’t like m193. Oh well.
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3 range trips, 60 rounds of m193 and 20 rounds of mk262 later, both optics are pretty close to where I want them and I’m very pleased with the out of the box accuracy of this rifle.
also, no malfunctions whatsoever. And that’s a good sign because so far I haven’t done anything but take it out of the box and mount scopes and shoot it. I didn’t clean the bbl. and I didn’t apply any lube. next step is to clean and lube it, and then chrono the mk262 and start getting dope.
Also I need to throw a flashlight on it but that’s prob another thread.
