Rich Lucibella
Staff
This is Blaser's answer to the needs of long range "precision shooters". Sometime back, Mad Dog posted a far better eval of the rifle than I could. (Search on the Rifle Forum).
Anyway, after sighting the rifle in at 200 yards three months ago, I broke it down, cased it and put it in Mad Dog's safe. Recently we completely disassembled this piece so that Kevin could apply a bake on coating to all metal surfaces. This meant removing the scope, barrel, stock cover, forend cover and bipod plate. Supposedly, it'll still come back to zero...yeah, right!
I had the opportunity to reassemble yesterday. Today I took it to Jeff Cooper's private range with Col. Bob Young to rezero (I am such a name dropper! ).
Bore sight looked good...it always does to me. First shots were on a steel plate at 200 meters: hit, hit, hit, hit, hit. Clean and try on paper. The 5 shot group was slightly 4 larger than 1 inch at 200 meters about 3/4 inch low of center. I'd say that's still zeroed for 200 yards on the money!
Now that's amazing....not the shooting, but the ability of the rifle to return to zero.
If you're all good boys and girls, tomorrow I'll post about the joys of shooting "Uncle Bob's" Accuracy Int'l with Schmidt and Bender scope.
Rich
[This message has been edited by Rich Lucibella (edited September 21, 1999).]
Anyway, after sighting the rifle in at 200 yards three months ago, I broke it down, cased it and put it in Mad Dog's safe. Recently we completely disassembled this piece so that Kevin could apply a bake on coating to all metal surfaces. This meant removing the scope, barrel, stock cover, forend cover and bipod plate. Supposedly, it'll still come back to zero...yeah, right!
I had the opportunity to reassemble yesterday. Today I took it to Jeff Cooper's private range with Col. Bob Young to rezero (I am such a name dropper! ).
Bore sight looked good...it always does to me. First shots were on a steel plate at 200 meters: hit, hit, hit, hit, hit. Clean and try on paper. The 5 shot group was slightly 4 larger than 1 inch at 200 meters about 3/4 inch low of center. I'd say that's still zeroed for 200 yards on the money!
Now that's amazing....not the shooting, but the ability of the rifle to return to zero.
If you're all good boys and girls, tomorrow I'll post about the joys of shooting "Uncle Bob's" Accuracy Int'l with Schmidt and Bender scope.
Rich
[This message has been edited by Rich Lucibella (edited September 21, 1999).]