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Okay, being blind as a bat and shaking like a hound dog trying to pass a peach pit, I decided I should probably put a scope on the MBR. (Cetme) I had a scope that's been around so long that I forgot where I got it, so I found a scope mount on line, ordered it, and put it on the gun. No rings. Okay, I went to a friendly local gun shop and had the scope mounted. It got tricky, because the scope is huge, (I had no idea what it was until I looked it up on the web: 3.8x12x44) and I had to set it back so it wasn't in the way of the charging handle. The rings were $25. Got it mounted, and my eye was too close to it. No problem, just add a recoil pad. The rifle is too short for me anyway, so the extra inch and a half moved it out far enough that my eye wasn't right on the scope. (Recoil problem: If your eye is right on the scope when you set it off, you're going to get smacked.) The recoil pad was $32. $61 later, I had the scope on the rifle. They couldn't bore sight it, because of the flash suppressor, plus the scope sat too high on the rifle. Okay, do it the old fashioned way.
The weather broke a bit, and it hit 56 degrees today, so I headed for the range. I have several large pieces of cardboard, so I took one of them, and put a target in the middle. I sat it up at 50 yards, so I could get it closer, then I figured I would move out to 100. I had some older ammo, and then some surplus ammo, so I took a bit of both. I started with the surplus, and it took seven shots to get it on paper. I fired three more, just to check and although it wasn't perfect, neither am I so I settled for that.
Then I loaded the older ammo. (Wolf) The group moved up and to the left by almost three inches. Still on paper, but not even close to the surplus stuff. Add to that, I realized that my trigger was breaking at different places. Now, I have what feels like too much scope on this rifle, the ammo makes more of a difference than I like, and the trigger is either mushy or crisp, at varying times. I am NOT happy. Can I get an after-market trigger fix for this thing?
In addition to that, there were WAY too many people at the range, which I also don't particularly like. You know it's a bad sign when the guy next to you has an AK-clone with a folding stock and a 75 round drum magazine. He must have blown through 100 rounds in the 45 minutes he was there. I think some of the 100 rounds actually hit his target too. Fooey.
The weather broke a bit, and it hit 56 degrees today, so I headed for the range. I have several large pieces of cardboard, so I took one of them, and put a target in the middle. I sat it up at 50 yards, so I could get it closer, then I figured I would move out to 100. I had some older ammo, and then some surplus ammo, so I took a bit of both. I started with the surplus, and it took seven shots to get it on paper. I fired three more, just to check and although it wasn't perfect, neither am I so I settled for that.
Then I loaded the older ammo. (Wolf) The group moved up and to the left by almost three inches. Still on paper, but not even close to the surplus stuff. Add to that, I realized that my trigger was breaking at different places. Now, I have what feels like too much scope on this rifle, the ammo makes more of a difference than I like, and the trigger is either mushy or crisp, at varying times. I am NOT happy. Can I get an after-market trigger fix for this thing?
In addition to that, there were WAY too many people at the range, which I also don't particularly like. You know it's a bad sign when the guy next to you has an AK-clone with a folding stock and a 75 round drum magazine. He must have blown through 100 rounds in the 45 minutes he was there. I think some of the 100 rounds actually hit his target too. Fooey.
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