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.
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.
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