So I finally got my Arms East non-restricted ACR
barrel back from Barry over at Bits of Pieces.
Excellent work, and I would definitely take any future gun smithing work
to him to do. So, the overall length of
the rifle is a tad longer than before, but it doesn’t look too
disproportionate.
I wasn’t very smart about optics choices when I took
the rifle to the range to test groups. I
had a 2moa Aimpoint Pro on there with an Eotech 3x flip to side magnifier. I should have put on proper glass, but I was
too lazy and I paid the consequences at the range by not being able to figure
out the best groups.
So, with a 2moa dot, that covers a 2 inch area at 100
yards, so at 100m, maybe a bit more? I
printed off some rifle targets from midwayusa.com but the target circles were
just about covered under that red dot under the lowest brightness setting.
So basically, I may as well have taken the rounds out
of the mag and thrown them downrange. I
had the rifle resting on sandbags, but honestly it was kind of a waste of time. I tested 69gr and 77gr Federal Premium Gold
Medal Match Sierra Match Kinds, as well as 55g Hornady Steel Match and some 55gr
American Eagle. The least crappiest was
the 69gr SMKs, but when I stay crappy, the performance can easily be attributed
to my poor skill as a shooter and my equally poor choice to bring a red dot for
precision shooting.
Lessons learned, I’ll know better next time.
My buddy having fun with his RPR in 6.5
Creedmore. He stacked two rounds at 200m
with that thing…..wow.
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