IndyBeerman
Was a real life Beerman.....
Well today was the day I finally got to break out the new Savage .22 I got last month, along with the Hi-point carbine I got at the last Indy 1500 (report in another post)
First off here's the rifle:
Plain Jane synthetic stock, one 10 round mag with a 4x32 Simmons scope on it from the factory.
Did the recommended fire/clean/oil for the first 10 rounds into the creek bed, and pondered the thought of also doing the 3 shot and repeat process 10 more times, decided this was going to be a headache
, time to get to business.
First off the rifle was supposed to be bore sighted, it was half right
Since I have never sighted in a rifle before this was an on the job training process that gave me a new respect for people that can do this quickly.
At least the left/right was dead on, but up/down was not even on paper at 25 yards. After my initial futile attempts to get it close, I finally got the hang of it and landed one inside a 9 ring. Moved it out to 50 yards and started all over again till it was lights out, was tagging all 10 shots of the mag in the 1 inch orange bull. I must say it will definitely shoot better than me right now, I have never been a rifle shooter, but this will now change because of this little beauty and the current price of ammo.
Overall I fired almost 150 rounds for the day through it with no failures to feed or extract using Winchester Super X High Velocity rated at 1260fps weighing 40gr.
It's a nice rifle weighing in at 5.5 pounds, initial trigger pull was a little gritty, but smoothed out very nicely with a crisp break when it fired.
Factory 10 shot mag was mild pain to load, only came with one, and there are no high capacity mags avaiable (bummer, +1 to Ruger and Remington for their higher capacities mags)
The factory installed 4x32 Simmons is a very nice scope, but I'm leaning on changing it to a 3-9x32 since I've now been baptized on sighting. I figure I'll lock it in a gun vise, fire a round and the swap scopes and reset the new one to that impact point the fine tune away. (open to suggestions if there's a better way.)
After buying this I kept having second thoughts on whether I should have gotten a Ruger 10/22, but after shooting this beside my best friend (who btw has a 10/22), I now have no doubt about it that I made the right choice. Purchased this out the door from Bradis after waiting several weeks for manufacturing to catch up with demand for 209.00.
Watch out varmints, there's a new sheriff in town!
First off here's the rifle:
Plain Jane synthetic stock, one 10 round mag with a 4x32 Simmons scope on it from the factory.
Did the recommended fire/clean/oil for the first 10 rounds into the creek bed, and pondered the thought of also doing the 3 shot and repeat process 10 more times, decided this was going to be a headache
First off the rifle was supposed to be bore sighted, it was half right
Since I have never sighted in a rifle before this was an on the job training process that gave me a new respect for people that can do this quickly.
At least the left/right was dead on, but up/down was not even on paper at 25 yards. After my initial futile attempts to get it close, I finally got the hang of it and landed one inside a 9 ring. Moved it out to 50 yards and started all over again till it was lights out, was tagging all 10 shots of the mag in the 1 inch orange bull. I must say it will definitely shoot better than me right now, I have never been a rifle shooter, but this will now change because of this little beauty and the current price of ammo.
Overall I fired almost 150 rounds for the day through it with no failures to feed or extract using Winchester Super X High Velocity rated at 1260fps weighing 40gr.
It's a nice rifle weighing in at 5.5 pounds, initial trigger pull was a little gritty, but smoothed out very nicely with a crisp break when it fired.
Factory 10 shot mag was mild pain to load, only came with one, and there are no high capacity mags avaiable (bummer, +1 to Ruger and Remington for their higher capacities mags)
The factory installed 4x32 Simmons is a very nice scope, but I'm leaning on changing it to a 3-9x32 since I've now been baptized on sighting. I figure I'll lock it in a gun vise, fire a round and the swap scopes and reset the new one to that impact point the fine tune away. (open to suggestions if there's a better way.)
After buying this I kept having second thoughts on whether I should have gotten a Ruger 10/22, but after shooting this beside my best friend (who btw has a 10/22), I now have no doubt about it that I made the right choice. Purchased this out the door from Bradis after waiting several weeks for manufacturing to catch up with demand for 209.00.
Watch out varmints, there's a new sheriff in town!
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