Ps90 Accuracy

[Lu249]

Me and a friend and a few others go prairie dog hunting every year. We like to take a lot of 22 caliber rifles (222,223,22 hornet, 225, 221 fireball, 22 LR, 22 mag, 22-250, 220 Russian) some 20 cal rifles (20 tac, 20 vartarg) and a 17 hornet. We usually use stuff like 225,22-250,220 Russian and the 20 calls for longer range dogs like 300 yards +. We like to use the other calibers for shorter range like under 200 yards (in 22 chargers, browning a bolts, ruger 77/22) we like to use the smaller rifles because they are handier at short range. I have contemplated getting a ps90 (1 for these shorter range shots, 2 for home defense, and 3 because they are just awesome) but my friend is convinced that they are not very accurate at all (like 2-3 in groups at 100 yards). He is a big bench rest guy and doesn’t own any AR type weapons. Just wondering if this a stigma or if he is actually valid.

 

[Dibbs]

Mine's insanely accurate. AFAIK, they're usually fairly accurate, as long as you have a good optic.

 

[FL-NC]

Mine does reasonably well at shorter ranges with a RDS. Would probably tighten up with something with a little magnification. Is your friend under the impression that there are no accurate AR's?

 

[Demi-human]

If he thinks there are no accurate ARs, he is merely stigmatized.

I have never weighed my decisions of purchase against what my curmudgeonly hunter friends thought.
If I did, I wouldn’t have all the cool stuff they would never buy, but still like to shoot when I bring it out...

And really, two inches at 100 will still nail a dog, but only the broken ones do that. We’re talking about an FN here.
It may not be a bench rest rifle, but ask the prairie dog shot with it if he’s embarrassed.

 

[gotboostvr]

Triggers aren't great, and there's no match ammo, but they shoot better than you'd expect.

A buddy of mine uses his to pop coyotes and groundhogs around his farm. More impressively, he did it for a long time using just the factory irons!

 

[chicharrones]

IMO, I don't know how a PS90 can be expected to compete with a small shootin' varmint rifle. It's a self defense bullpup with a trigger not designed for small target shooting far away. The PS90 is meant to do things a bench rest gun isn't designed for and vice versa.

Get a PS90 for reasons #2 (home defense) and #3 (awesomeness), put a red dot on it and have fun. Of course, put a scope on it to see what it can do when bench rested, but that would be just for the heck of it and not the reason to own it, IMO.

BTW, the extra high over bore optic mount of the PS90 probably complicates making small shots at range, too.

 

[aarondhgraham]

I dunno why people think it's not capable of long range accuracy.

I personally witnessed Captain Samantha Carter,,,
Shoot the rope of a swinging log at well 60 or 70 yards.

And she did it standing off-hand.



Okay, it was on another planet,,,
But they had video and that's good enough for me.

Aarond

P.S. The armorer for the TV show said they chose the P90,,,
Because it ejects the empties from the bottom of the gun,,,
Making it easier/safer to film battle action scenes.

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[Lu249]

Mine's insanely accurate. AFAIK, they're usually fairly accurate, as long as you have a good optic.

That’s what I’ve heard. I heard the integrated optics are horrible. Thinking about a leupold or vortex to put on it

 

[Lu249]

Mine does reasonably well at shorter ranges with a RDS. Would probably tighten up with something with a little magnification. Is your friend under the impression that there are no accurate AR's?

No I don’t think that, i think it’s just that he’s always shot custom bench rest rifles, kimbers, coopers, Dakotas etc and that’s all he’s used to. He does think that some are accurate but I think he’s rather prefer to shoot something with alittle wood on it lol IMO

 

[12Bravo20]

I have never owned the PS90 but did have the AR57 upper. It was accurate out to 100 yards using the FN ballistic tip ammo and American Eagle ammo. Both are 40 grains