I don’t know if anybody is interested but here is my shooting/range report on my new Sig 556.
I’ve had a Colt AR heavy barrel and fired a bunch of ARs over the years and really have never had a problem with them. Sweetest shooting of them all is my friends Wilson. Iron sights @ 100yds I get groups of 30 in 5” with a big hole in the middle. However I decided I wanted something with a gas piston/rod setup.
So, I got a Sig 556 and now that I have learned how to shoot the darn thing I like it a lot. She likes the heavier bullets for tight groups but I think she does well with M193 ball too. Not as pinpoint, but close enough to do the job.
Cleaning is really easy mostly case all the crap is in the gas tube which comes apart so you can get to it all. After 500 to 600 rounds the bolt & carrier look unfired. On mine I have an El cheap Holo sight that works good enough for now. I’m thinking EoTech sometime after Christmas.
I started out shooting Barnal (sp?) 55gr and first zero was @ 50yds, then 100yds and I wasn’t at all happy with the groups. Barrel is 1:7 twist so I bought some Black Hills 75gr MHP and wow she came right in. At 200yds with Black Hills 75gr I’m getting sub 2” groups from a rest. I like the trigger, not light but she trips clean and smooth. I like shooting cans, so I put a bunch of them from 100yds to 200yds and let her rip. Shooting from a standing position I didn’t hit every one of them first shot but if the target was about to shoot back I was close enough that most would have ducked.
Mags and mag well:
The Sig is amazing, I have some old cheap AR mags that in ARs will have many FTF, yet in the Sig they work fine. Every mag I shove into her feeds with no problems. Press the mag release and they just drop out. No need to pull on them what so ever.
The Sig weights more in the front than an AR which I didn’t like at first but now I don’t care. She is fun, hits the target, reliable and easy to clean.
The ARs, AKs, M1As are all good and so is the Sig. Some say the Sig is the perfect blend of AR & AK and maybe they are correct.
Bill AKA TexSabre