My boss just finished building an AR-15 for his son and asked me to sight it in for him. I started off and 50 yards and after 3 shots I couldn't even see where it was hitting. I moved up to 25 with the same result and then about 15 yards and still couldn't tell. We grabbed some clean cardboard and at 10 yards I could see the shots were three feet off center to the right.When I went to put windage to the left into the scope I checked and it was maxed to the right, I'm not sure why. With it fairly close at 50 yards we moved out to 100 and I was able to make three shots that overlapped each other on the 4" plate.
Here is my buddy's range from 100 yards, the white tent is where we shoot from 50.
This is standing in front of the trap looking back the opposite direction.
This is the same shot zoomed in, the shooting bench is just to the left of his pickup.
I was also testing a shell bag I bought last week for $10.00. It attaches to the gun with a velcro strap and has a zipper at the bottom of the bag to empty it. It works great and takes the pain out of collecting shells, with it on the gun you hardly even notice its there. I wish I had known about these a long time ago.
Next my buddy got out his Barrett .338 Lapua Magnum. He had never shot his AR500 with it and even though the guy he bought it from guaranteed it would handle the gun at 100 yards there was still some doubt. Here is a short video of him hitting dead center on the 10" plate.
The next victim for the Barrett was a 5lb fire extinguisher I have had in my garage for 7 years. It had dropped below minimum charge and because it has a plastic head no one would recharge it.
After that I shot the Barrett at some mild steel pistol targets we had hung next to the AR500. The targets were the type that flipped up and you would shoot one to reset them. The problem with them is it took a 45 to reliably flip them so we never shot them much .
As you can see the Barrett went through the one I shot rather easily, that was a hollow point round not even armor piercing or anything fancy.
We shot about 400 rounds of .22 the rest of the afternoon, all in all a very vun day.
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