Rob Pincus
New member
Okay, thanks to the rolling hills on the property of the Old Fredericketown FOP Lodge #12, I finally found a place to go sight in my PIIK....
Over a month of dry-firing has been pretty damn frustrating without so much as a round down the barrel.
I had some 6" circle targets, 40 rounds of Winchester BST 168 gr, 5 thumbtacks, my rifle bag/mat, ears/eyes, Binos, a big hill, a couple big trees, a clearing and a half-full camelback. Not exactly the FBI Sniper Range, but any longer and I would've shot this thing at an indoor pistol range with surplus ammo!
I haven't been able to find a bipod post for the European Rail, so there would be no bipod for this range session. I had two sticks and an old brick under the front end of my shooting mat and I shot from prone.
I paced off about 25 yards and hoped that I'd be on paper.... a good buddy had boresighted my Leupold 4.5-14x40 Mil-Dot several weeks ago, and I was hoping that the notebook paper sized targets were enough paper at 25 yards.... they were.
First shot was a significantly low and left, so was the second.... several clicks and 4 shots later I had three rounds touching the center orange dot (about 1 centimeter).
I scoped out the nicest Big Tree/Target Stand I could get a flat clear shot to and paced it off. As best I can remember my paces, it was about 80 meters.. good enough for me. I tacked a couple targets to it and got back on the rifle.
Two shots high and left.
Clickity-clickity.
One shot high center. Two shots high left.
Clickity-clickity.
Obliterated the little orange dot. Tacking the targets to the tree meant that the holes left in the paper were pretty damn ragged.. given the uneven surface and the flying bits o' bark.
Put up two more targets, two shots to each one, both shots within 1" of each other, and the dot.
At this point, I was thrilled. I'm mostly a pistol shooter... and most of my recent experience with rifles has been with Scout-types. So I was glad to see that getting this rifle "in the zone" wasn't going to take me forever.
I put up two Shoot-n-C targets on other trees, both approximately the same distance from my shooting position. I packed up the rifle in the bag/mat, threw the shoulder straps on and hiked up to the top of the hill. I went into the lodge, ran a few patches through the barrel, and packed the rifle up again. Before I left, I loaded the last 4 rounds from the box ammo into the magazine.
I hiked back down to the shooting position, broke out the rifle, shoved the brick back under the mat and put two rounds into each target.
Next time out, I'm borrowing a buddy's range finder, so I can get spot on for 100 yards. Then I'll be able to start doing some longer distance shooting.
I was happy with the rifle, the trigger is awesome, the rifle feels very good to me.
Anyone with a line on that bipod adapter for the rail, please let me know!
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-Essayons
Over a month of dry-firing has been pretty damn frustrating without so much as a round down the barrel.
I had some 6" circle targets, 40 rounds of Winchester BST 168 gr, 5 thumbtacks, my rifle bag/mat, ears/eyes, Binos, a big hill, a couple big trees, a clearing and a half-full camelback. Not exactly the FBI Sniper Range, but any longer and I would've shot this thing at an indoor pistol range with surplus ammo!
I haven't been able to find a bipod post for the European Rail, so there would be no bipod for this range session. I had two sticks and an old brick under the front end of my shooting mat and I shot from prone.
I paced off about 25 yards and hoped that I'd be on paper.... a good buddy had boresighted my Leupold 4.5-14x40 Mil-Dot several weeks ago, and I was hoping that the notebook paper sized targets were enough paper at 25 yards.... they were.
First shot was a significantly low and left, so was the second.... several clicks and 4 shots later I had three rounds touching the center orange dot (about 1 centimeter).
I scoped out the nicest Big Tree/Target Stand I could get a flat clear shot to and paced it off. As best I can remember my paces, it was about 80 meters.. good enough for me. I tacked a couple targets to it and got back on the rifle.
Two shots high and left.
Clickity-clickity.
One shot high center. Two shots high left.
Clickity-clickity.
Obliterated the little orange dot. Tacking the targets to the tree meant that the holes left in the paper were pretty damn ragged.. given the uneven surface and the flying bits o' bark.
Put up two more targets, two shots to each one, both shots within 1" of each other, and the dot.
At this point, I was thrilled. I'm mostly a pistol shooter... and most of my recent experience with rifles has been with Scout-types. So I was glad to see that getting this rifle "in the zone" wasn't going to take me forever.
I put up two Shoot-n-C targets on other trees, both approximately the same distance from my shooting position. I packed up the rifle in the bag/mat, threw the shoulder straps on and hiked up to the top of the hill. I went into the lodge, ran a few patches through the barrel, and packed the rifle up again. Before I left, I loaded the last 4 rounds from the box ammo into the magazine.
I hiked back down to the shooting position, broke out the rifle, shoved the brick back under the mat and put two rounds into each target.
Next time out, I'm borrowing a buddy's range finder, so I can get spot on for 100 yards. Then I'll be able to start doing some longer distance shooting.
I was happy with the rifle, the trigger is awesome, the rifle feels very good to me.
Anyone with a line on that bipod adapter for the rail, please let me know!
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-Essayons
