Enfield Scout range report with pics

[hillbilly]

Took my Enfield 2A Scout to the big range today.

Ran 48 rounds.

My initial backyard sight-in detailed in another thread was good enough to get me on paper at 100 and 200 and 300.

I fiddled with the sights, and got a little more serious.

First, the 2A trigger is weird, but not that bad once I figured out how to take up the initial slack, so it was like two trigger squeezes.

The thick reticle on the Leupold Scout scope makes true precision shooting impossible.

A four-inch black sqaure in the middle of the 100 yard target was completely obscured by the reticle's crosshairs.

To try to produce a group at 100 yards, I tried the trick suggested on a Jeff Cooper Scout page, and put the target alongside the vertical crosshair and atop the horizontal one.

Best I could do off the bench at 100 yards with 147 grain NATO spec South African surplus ammo was 3 inches.

Then, I fired three groups at the 300 yard target pictured below. The first six shots, I held high after figuring my sights were set for a 275 yard battle sight zero after my shots hit about 3 inches high at 100 yards.

However, I was incorrect. When I held high at 300, I got high hits. In fact, one of the first six went off the paper completely.

The last group I fired four shots and held dead on. Two hits in the blue with two more not far below it.

Not bad for "minute of torso" at 300 yards.

 

[hillbilly]

Then I put up three sheets of typing paper at 100 yards.

There was a yellow sight-in target already on the 100 yard target backstop with only one bullet hole in the top left corner.

So, I marked that bullet hole with my blue magic marker and added that yellow target into the mix.

The targets were evenly spaced on two separate target frames, covering a totla of about 10 feet left to right.

I loaded the Enfield to capacity---12 rounds, and decided to try to hit each target three times.

I fired offhand, with no sling, and tried to limit myself to 2 seconds or less to shoulder, sight, and press the trigger.

I went left to right and back again firing single shots at each target.

I got 10 hits out of 12 on these targets at 100 yards, but discovered that in my excitement, I cross shot target number 2 four times.

I guess I got excited and when I lowered the rifle to crank the bolt for the next round, I looked down at the rifle and not at the target. Then, when I reshouldered, I just looked for a flash of paper in the scope.

Ooops....

Oh well....10 out of 12 shooting quickly from standing at 100 yards is 10 out of 12 shooting.

Here's a pic of the targets.

Only the holes circled in red are holes made with my scout rifle.