Hello.. New to the community here, in the Edmond area. Seems like a great site with many great people.
OK I am a Red Leg and belong to the Chatham Artillery. I live in Savannah Ga.
So why in the hell would I be on here you ask, well I have lived and taught at I See Oh Hall at Ft Sill and lived in Medicine park, & Fletcher with one of my (few) long time brothers Tim and his beautiful wife Jewel. We shoot, ride, work, and have lived with each other over the course of years so we share info and trade stories when we get together. When I go to my home of record Ft Worth Tx.
What got me on this site was the talk about the Savage 10 BAS and how it copied (said with tongue in cheek) this and that from other guns and my reply still stands, they (all gun companies)have been doing that since the beginning.
So why come back you ask.
Well after, after my purchase of the Savage 10 BAS I put one of my old Leuopold MK 4s on the rifle and took it to the range to compare it with my Harris McMillan M-86. To start I shoot with other good friends here in Ga who work on the police force so I use Factory 175 gr BT ammo for most of my testing I will also use the 168 which very close to the same POI.
After setting up on the range it was 86 F wind very light around 4-6 mph from our 0530. Pretty good conditions over all for the short range 100yd shooting. After getting it zero'd at 50 we moved back to 100yds and to test out my failing eyes I put a small copper coin on the bull in hopes a small hole would appear in the head.
Now I put my mat down, laid the rifle on the bipod opened the bolt, took my wind readings took the ribbings about a space gun and what kind of ray it shot etc... then as I laid down slipped the magazine into the snug welcoming entrance, I took my been bag and gave it a little squeeze to get a stable sight picture, and squeezed the nice crisp trigger, and it and the next 4 rds went through the same hole in the coin, My 5th shot went through the same hole in the target but the coin had popped forward and it skimmed the side of the coin. total hole size 3/8 inch.
We then moved to the 200,300,500,750yd ranges and since I didn't have my dope for this rifle yet I used the card for my M-86 and it was close enough for me to hit a 22 inch target at 750yds with a lft to rt wind of (by now) 5-9 mph with each of 5 rds.
Hopefully I can do better after the rest of the break in period.
bottom line. It is on par with my favorite rifle out of the box (with added optics of course), and I would say that I decided then and there to go ahead and dress it up with Camo paint and add it to my drag around collection. But hey I think they must have copied the accuracy from other rifles as well "CHUCKLE", so to those who say its a copy please go try it and then like my favorite pistol, the most copied ever Mr Brownings 1911, you will see that it is a sound stable shooting platform.
Oh yes I did put some of the foam from the packaging under the shaky cheek pad and now it is spot on.
Exhale, squeeze, feel a slight recoil, and watch the bad guy go away!
Nick
So why in the hell would I be on here you ask, well I have lived and taught at I See Oh Hall at Ft Sill and lived in Medicine park, & Fletcher with one of my (few) long time brothers Tim and his beautiful wife Jewel. We shoot, ride, work, and have lived with each other over the course of years so we share info and trade stories when we get together. When I go to my home of record Ft Worth Tx.
What got me on this site was the talk about the Savage 10 BAS and how it copied (said with tongue in cheek) this and that from other guns and my reply still stands, they (all gun companies)have been doing that since the beginning.
So why come back you ask.
Well after, after my purchase of the Savage 10 BAS I put one of my old Leuopold MK 4s on the rifle and took it to the range to compare it with my Harris McMillan M-86. To start I shoot with other good friends here in Ga who work on the police force so I use Factory 175 gr BT ammo for most of my testing I will also use the 168 which very close to the same POI.
After setting up on the range it was 86 F wind very light around 4-6 mph from our 0530. Pretty good conditions over all for the short range 100yd shooting. After getting it zero'd at 50 we moved back to 100yds and to test out my failing eyes I put a small copper coin on the bull in hopes a small hole would appear in the head.
Now I put my mat down, laid the rifle on the bipod opened the bolt, took my wind readings took the ribbings about a space gun and what kind of ray it shot etc... then as I laid down slipped the magazine into the snug welcoming entrance, I took my been bag and gave it a little squeeze to get a stable sight picture, and squeezed the nice crisp trigger, and it and the next 4 rds went through the same hole in the coin, My 5th shot went through the same hole in the target but the coin had popped forward and it skimmed the side of the coin. total hole size 3/8 inch.
We then moved to the 200,300,500,750yd ranges and since I didn't have my dope for this rifle yet I used the card for my M-86 and it was close enough for me to hit a 22 inch target at 750yds with a lft to rt wind of (by now) 5-9 mph with each of 5 rds.
Hopefully I can do better after the rest of the break in period.
bottom line. It is on par with my favorite rifle out of the box (with added optics of course), and I would say that I decided then and there to go ahead and dress it up with Camo paint and add it to my drag around collection. But hey I think they must have copied the accuracy from other rifles as well "CHUCKLE", so to those who say its a copy please go try it and then like my favorite pistol, the most copied ever Mr Brownings 1911, you will see that it is a sound stable shooting platform.
Oh yes I did put some of the foam from the packaging under the shaky cheek pad and now it is spot on.
Exhale, squeeze, feel a slight recoil, and watch the bad guy go away!
Nick
I'm new to the forum been in OK all my life and getting into buying and selling more guns and need a place to ask for info on what guns I find.
fng from sw mo.
just got hooked in the shooting world and i'm looking forward to shooting some uspsa and idpa events soon. i build custom cars and do fab work along with my real job, which is really slow right now, automotive marketing.
lots of info here. thanks. ryno
just got hooked in the shooting world and i'm looking forward to shooting some uspsa and idpa events soon. i build custom cars and do fab work along with my real job, which is really slow right now, automotive marketing.
lots of info here. thanks. ryno
good morning everyone. I am new to the site and firearms in general. I just purchased a s&w 642 from academy and a customer and i started talking and he told me about this site. I cant recall his name. Hope to chat and make some friends here.
Hey y'all. Been lurking since May. Don't really have anything in common with most of y'all, but I do love my guns. Broke off an engagement once cause she said I couldn't carry anymore. Don't make a lot of money, computer illiterate, work very hard to be politically incorrect, socially unacceptable, redneck, and don't figure I was put here to please anybody. So if that bothers any of y'all, just don't talk to me. I'm just here to learn and talk guns. Built my first BP rifle in shop class at Eisenhower school in northeast OKC many year ago. Talk on ya later.
Hi Ya'll ,, yep I'm a rookie on this forum.. I live in the tumbleweed capital of the world,,Guymon..I do a lot of P-Dog blasting and at one time back in it's hay day I was pretty good at the silhouette game...I look forward to posting on this place...
Hey guys, I am a student at Oklahoma State University. I've been into guns for a few years now, and I try to shoot as often as possible. I've bought a few guns from some of the members on here, and I love being able to learn from the forums here. Other than that, I can't think of anything else that would be worthwhile to mention. Thanks!
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