alamo5000
22 September 2016, 18:55
I finally got my first 10/22 all put together and this is the first actual shooting experience.
I bought a Vortex 2-7x Rimfire scope...and I am extremely glad that I got that scope. The reticle is simple but the subtensions are thin enough for very accurate shooting. I zeroed it at 50 yards with some left over blazer ammo that was given to me with the gun. I have to rave about that scope. The ease of operation and the positive clicks, clear glass... just everything is superb.
I was shooting at a steel plate that I have hanging and at one point I started aiming at that little mount square in the top center of the target (where you can mount it to a post or whatever) Basically at one point I put 3 out of 5 shots through that hole at 50 yards. I think with some better ammo selection it could be an extremely accurate shooter. It's not the most accurate shooting gun ever, but for about 1/2 to 1 inch at 50 yards that's not too bad especially considering this is just a 'blaster' anyway.
Just for kicks I tried shooting out to 100 yards and with no adjustments at all to the scope the bullet drops about 7 or 8 inches at 100 yards.
I shot everything suppressed of course. The suppressor still never fails to impress me. One thing that did happen though is after a lot of shooting the action and the chamber and even the mag got so fouled up that it wouldn't work. I had several failure to feeds and other similar issues. I cleaned the mag and cleaned all the guts of the gun with froglube (it was given to me with the gun--- man that stuff stinks! It's strong smelling) After a good cleaning the gun ran fine. I can see that shooting suppressed is going to require a lot more cleaning of the gun though. It's not like an AR... with the 10/22 when it got dirty it just stopped working.
I tried some 40 grain subsonic ammo and there is some major point of impact shift. About 7 or 8 inches down. That ammo is so slow you could see the bullets flying through the air. It was almost like shooting a tracer LOL! It appeared that the accuracy was substantially less with that ammo and on top of that you had to manually rack the slide after each shot. I definitely won't be using that ammo again. I will still test the 45 grain subs and make note of the POI shift so that I can more easily dial from supers to subs and vice versa. I will see if that stuff is very accurate as well.
A couple of things I noticed though... the inside of the reciever and the bolt are not precision tools by any means. Moving that slide back and forth with your hand and it feels very gritty. On the flip side of that--rack a Kidd build and it's like rubbing two pieces of ice together. The trigger is gritty on mine. On a Kidd it's crisp and very very nice. Basically it's night and day. I can't wait to get mine done.
Long story short I am pretty pleased with my build but I am even more excited to get my Kidd build done.
I bought a Vortex 2-7x Rimfire scope...and I am extremely glad that I got that scope. The reticle is simple but the subtensions are thin enough for very accurate shooting. I zeroed it at 50 yards with some left over blazer ammo that was given to me with the gun. I have to rave about that scope. The ease of operation and the positive clicks, clear glass... just everything is superb.
I was shooting at a steel plate that I have hanging and at one point I started aiming at that little mount square in the top center of the target (where you can mount it to a post or whatever) Basically at one point I put 3 out of 5 shots through that hole at 50 yards. I think with some better ammo selection it could be an extremely accurate shooter. It's not the most accurate shooting gun ever, but for about 1/2 to 1 inch at 50 yards that's not too bad especially considering this is just a 'blaster' anyway.
Just for kicks I tried shooting out to 100 yards and with no adjustments at all to the scope the bullet drops about 7 or 8 inches at 100 yards.
I shot everything suppressed of course. The suppressor still never fails to impress me. One thing that did happen though is after a lot of shooting the action and the chamber and even the mag got so fouled up that it wouldn't work. I had several failure to feeds and other similar issues. I cleaned the mag and cleaned all the guts of the gun with froglube (it was given to me with the gun--- man that stuff stinks! It's strong smelling) After a good cleaning the gun ran fine. I can see that shooting suppressed is going to require a lot more cleaning of the gun though. It's not like an AR... with the 10/22 when it got dirty it just stopped working.
I tried some 40 grain subsonic ammo and there is some major point of impact shift. About 7 or 8 inches down. That ammo is so slow you could see the bullets flying through the air. It was almost like shooting a tracer LOL! It appeared that the accuracy was substantially less with that ammo and on top of that you had to manually rack the slide after each shot. I definitely won't be using that ammo again. I will still test the 45 grain subs and make note of the POI shift so that I can more easily dial from supers to subs and vice versa. I will see if that stuff is very accurate as well.
A couple of things I noticed though... the inside of the reciever and the bolt are not precision tools by any means. Moving that slide back and forth with your hand and it feels very gritty. On the flip side of that--rack a Kidd build and it's like rubbing two pieces of ice together. The trigger is gritty on mine. On a Kidd it's crisp and very very nice. Basically it's night and day. I can't wait to get mine done.
Long story short I am pretty pleased with my build but I am even more excited to get my Kidd build done.