Pond James Pond
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Today I repeated what I've done over my last 3 range visits: made a hash of setting up my AR scope.
During the course of this range trip I wrestled with getting small groups from my Sig M400, but all that is already in another thread. However, I did get input from two guys who are far more proficient rifle shooters. They showed me where my rifle was going to suffer with accuracy. Rifle-specifically this boiled down to a non-floating barrel (the gas-tube and particularly the fore-end handguard retaining cup that sits behind the gas-tube and front sight pillar.)
Clearly, I can't easily make an AR fully-floating. However, the second issue is perhaps easier to address. The trigger. I'd always thought it was good. Quite crisp with a well-defined reset. Except that when they tried it, their eyes met and there was a sucking of teeth! They felt it was very heavy.....
I soon saw what they meant. ONe of them let me try his 18" custom-built Finnish AR. That trigger, quite seriously, had a trigger measuring in the ounces. The last time I felt a trigger that light was on my old CZ 550 where I had adjusted the set-trigger as light as I could to see how it felt. This was about the same. About 2mm travel, too.
Now that is too much for me, but by comparison, my AR felt like my CZ SP-01 in DA!! I did, however, realise that my trigger is quite hefty.
I'm guessing a drop-in trigger kit is the answer.
So what are my options, bearing in mind that I doubt most companies will ship outside the US?
During the course of this range trip I wrestled with getting small groups from my Sig M400, but all that is already in another thread. However, I did get input from two guys who are far more proficient rifle shooters. They showed me where my rifle was going to suffer with accuracy. Rifle-specifically this boiled down to a non-floating barrel (the gas-tube and particularly the fore-end handguard retaining cup that sits behind the gas-tube and front sight pillar.)
Clearly, I can't easily make an AR fully-floating. However, the second issue is perhaps easier to address. The trigger. I'd always thought it was good. Quite crisp with a well-defined reset. Except that when they tried it, their eyes met and there was a sucking of teeth! They felt it was very heavy.....
I soon saw what they meant. ONe of them let me try his 18" custom-built Finnish AR. That trigger, quite seriously, had a trigger measuring in the ounces. The last time I felt a trigger that light was on my old CZ 550 where I had adjusted the set-trigger as light as I could to see how it felt. This was about the same. About 2mm travel, too.
Now that is too much for me, but by comparison, my AR felt like my CZ SP-01 in DA!! I did, however, realise that my trigger is quite hefty.
I'm guessing a drop-in trigger kit is the answer.
So what are my options, bearing in mind that I doubt most companies will ship outside the US?