Medusa
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Got the new rifle (yeah right) - new job, new tools - to scope it and use it as a DMR /substitute sniper rifle.
(pics are made with cell phone, so quality may not be up to standards)
She is a plain Jane, nothing special by looks, as you can see, but in action she's smooth as a baby's skin and sweet as a lollypop.
I used the standard US issue ball ammo, loaded on 5 round strippers. Interesting is that on the first walk from firing line to targets I found a magazine speedloader and handful of stripper clips of M14 rifle, in mud. These things are hard to come by here, but there they were. Fellow sniper did recommend using these strippers for holding loose ammo together and not banging/rattling in pocket for everybody to hear.
She's a real deal, with "the switch". This feature is disconnected as you see, but still the rifle shot one 3 round burst, with me being and rangemaster . The rifle itself was pretty accurate, at 100m shooting the standard ball ammo into 2-3 inch circle, the burst increased one group to 5 inch size. So she's a killer if I do my job right.
Actually the women at range liked the rifle (we had some members from Female Home Guard - rough translation, a branch of Defence League, for active women), said it looks classic - symbios of metal and wood. But they hardly knew what it was. I even had to show the rangemaster/shooting instructor how to actually use that speedloader and clips together.
I did have one peculiar jam - round was loaded into chamber, but when pulling the trigger it felt like the hammer wasn't cocked at all - you know when you have pulled the trigger on empty chamber and try to pull it again, it moves certain amount but that's it. When I pulled the cartridge out after 30 secs, in case it was hang-fire, it had the dimple in the primer and on second try it shot.
One question to the knowing people, how old is she? Pic of the receiver:
So shortly, I was happy to switch the 20 pound Teutonic trigger to something smooth, my usual rifle looked like that (she has seen better times) and shot a bit bad:
Oh. the firing range looked like that a few months ago, from 150 m line, with knee deep snow:
For current conditions just remove the snow and add a thin layer of reddish-brown sand/mud with a few tractor tracks.
She's a beauty and US personnel may be satisfied with one of these fine rifles being in good and caring hands.
(pics are made with cell phone, so quality may not be up to standards)
She is a plain Jane, nothing special by looks, as you can see, but in action she's smooth as a baby's skin and sweet as a lollypop.
I used the standard US issue ball ammo, loaded on 5 round strippers. Interesting is that on the first walk from firing line to targets I found a magazine speedloader and handful of stripper clips of M14 rifle, in mud. These things are hard to come by here, but there they were. Fellow sniper did recommend using these strippers for holding loose ammo together and not banging/rattling in pocket for everybody to hear.
She's a real deal, with "the switch". This feature is disconnected as you see, but still the rifle shot one 3 round burst, with me being and rangemaster . The rifle itself was pretty accurate, at 100m shooting the standard ball ammo into 2-3 inch circle, the burst increased one group to 5 inch size. So she's a killer if I do my job right.
Actually the women at range liked the rifle (we had some members from Female Home Guard - rough translation, a branch of Defence League, for active women), said it looks classic - symbios of metal and wood. But they hardly knew what it was. I even had to show the rangemaster/shooting instructor how to actually use that speedloader and clips together.
I did have one peculiar jam - round was loaded into chamber, but when pulling the trigger it felt like the hammer wasn't cocked at all - you know when you have pulled the trigger on empty chamber and try to pull it again, it moves certain amount but that's it. When I pulled the cartridge out after 30 secs, in case it was hang-fire, it had the dimple in the primer and on second try it shot.
One question to the knowing people, how old is she? Pic of the receiver:
So shortly, I was happy to switch the 20 pound Teutonic trigger to something smooth, my usual rifle looked like that (she has seen better times) and shot a bit bad:
Oh. the firing range looked like that a few months ago, from 150 m line, with knee deep snow:
For current conditions just remove the snow and add a thin layer of reddish-brown sand/mud with a few tractor tracks.
She's a beauty and US personnel may be satisfied with one of these fine rifles being in good and caring hands.
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