I finally got to go out today on a quick trip, and got to shoot the new (to me) upper. Its a jp15 stainless upper with bennie cooley brake and vtac handguards. Got a burris PEPR scope mount and cheap truglo scope with fine crosshairs. I fed it a bunch of different ammo and it was quite interesting the results that happened. First thing I shot was centurion m193 ammo and it shot decent after zeroing it in. I was able to get it zeroed in about 5 or 6 rounds. I was at roughly 80 or so yards out and that was all that was doable where I was shooting down at a river bar. Wind was around 15-20mph with 25+ gusts. It was rough shooting because of the dirt and motorcyclists ripping up and down the road through the silt and me having to cover everything up when they came by. Anyway, after zeroing it, centurion put down 10 shot groups in the 2" range off a bipod on rocks. I finally found a big flat rock to sit it on and the group tightened up a bit. I then tried some south african m193 and it shot about the same but I couldn't use my JP 3lb springs on one of my lowers so I swapped lowers out to a standard weight spring and it shot fine. I tried PPU m193 and it shot between an inch and a half and 2" depending on the shooter. Then I tried winchester white box .223 ammo and it was one big hole. All of these were ten round groups and it was barely over the inch center to center. I was using the 100 yard sight in targets with the 1" squares on them was the only reason I could figure out how well it was shooting. Anyway, i'm really pleased with this as an impromptu shooting session with a bro-in-law and friend from denver who came out for the week. I can't wait for next sunday at the real range when there are far less distractions and crap flying around.
Got to blast through a hundred rounds or so of the SKS too which is always a hoot. I was showing off and asked them to point me to something to shoot and never thought I could hit it but low and behold a tiny little can of campbells chicken and stars was blasted to the nether world on the first shot. I laughed so hard because it was pure luck shooting off hand at around 80 yards or so.
On a side note, if anyone in the humboldt area wants to pitch in and come together for a cleanup day down there, I'd be willing to haul some trash out of there because its getting really bad from crappy shooters leaving their junk down there. I took all that I brought and this bad etiquette is leaving a bad taste in the motorcyclists mouth which i'm a part of both scenes so I hear it from both sides. Anyway, food for thought.
Got to blast through a hundred rounds or so of the SKS too which is always a hoot. I was showing off and asked them to point me to something to shoot and never thought I could hit it but low and behold a tiny little can of campbells chicken and stars was blasted to the nether world on the first shot. I laughed so hard because it was pure luck shooting off hand at around 80 yards or so.
On a side note, if anyone in the humboldt area wants to pitch in and come together for a cleanup day down there, I'd be willing to haul some trash out of there because its getting really bad from crappy shooters leaving their junk down there. I took all that I brought and this bad etiquette is leaving a bad taste in the motorcyclists mouth which i'm a part of both scenes so I hear it from both sides. Anyway, food for thought.
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