Hi all
Just got home from the range and I think I will be smilling for the rest of the day due to this little superlight .223. I have attached my 100 yard target, it was shot using the factory open sights using a 6 o'clock hold as the front sight blade was wider than my target even at 50 yards. To get a 3" inch group with the last two shots inside 1 " after making a slight tweak to the sights I am totally blown away by the performace, expecially considering the 10mph crosswind and the style of open sights as they are not designed for target work. Even took one shot at 200 yards and was pleased to only be about 8" off where i wanted to hit, not bad considering i could barely even see my target at that distance.
In total i took about 25 shots, cleaning every five shots to help the new barrel get started. I will probably increase the interval to cleaning every box of ammo until i get 100 rounds down the pipe. Good news was it didn't matter if the barrel was hot or cold POI was the same, cleaned or dirty made no difference either at least i couldn't detect it using the iron sights, maybe if it was scoped the difference may have been noticable. Only problem was at first i mounted up the williams H&R peep sight i had lying around after about the first 10 shots i gave up and put the factory rear sight back on as the peep was shooting about 10" high at 25 yards with the adjustment max'd out as low as it would go, but atleast I can keep the factory sight set-up going forward and maybe even through a dot sight on it down road, don't really want to scope this one for its intended purpose.
Hope to have a yote on the ground with it either tomorrow or next weekend depending on how i feel.