AR weights

[GetReal]

Id say shoot it first at your home range and let your target tell what works well and what to do.

 

[Halmccoyii]

This is going to be my first time shooting at the Blast. I've shot enough to realize I'll never win anything, but I'll have a great time trying. I was told to bring a shotgun, there's supposedly a great sporting clays setup at Flint Oaks Ranch. Jim and Sally are fantastic people.

They have fantastic sporting clays out there. It really is a world class place. I have not met Jim and Sally yet in person, just over email, but they have been fantastic and very helpful. I'm looking forward to meeting them soon.

 

[Shifty6br]

If I were to classify any one of my gas guns as a "bench" type heavy rifle it would be my current 24" 6arc configuration weighing in at 15lbs and change with a single weight underneath.

Nothing wrong with adding weight, follow up shots are quicker and easier to call out your previous, depending on what you want to do with the rifle.

Unfortunately for me I can only take off so much weight so this rifle is somewhat limited in use one can say.

 

[GetReal]

@Shifty6br my 6ARC is a serious shooter.... 18" bbl... consistently below half Moa easy hits on steel out to 800 so far... at prolly 12+ lbs, no addtl weight needed.n

 

[Shifty6br]

@Shifty6br my 6ARC is a serious shooter.... 18" bbl... consistently below half Moa easy hits on steel out to 800 so far... at prolly 12+ lbs, no addtl weight needed.n


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Yeah, its a nifty little cartridge...originally I ran a 20" Proof at it's induction but I wanted to squeeze a little more speed out of the heavies so went with a 24" Barty.

12lbs makes for a nice steady platform I would imagine.

 

[Halmccoyii]

Fwiw, you can move your bipod to help the balance. Yes, a longer distance between contact points is more stable, however you can fine tune it to find the point where the gun recoils straight back and doesn't jump sideways on the bipod.

I tune the gas system to reduce felt recoil and gun jump. If you have an adjustable gas block, dial it down until you cannot cycle and then turn it back up just until it does. I tune all my ARs with standard springs and buffer weights this way.

Also, I've found that not all ARs behave the same with the same hold. Some like to be held hard, others like a little bit of freedom in recoil. If you have a modern smart phone, use the slo-motion video to capture it during recoil and cycling to see what it does.

That is a great idea. I will do that on the next shoot. Thanks for the idea and push.

 

[Bat Rastard]

Haha. I will do that.

I would love to find other things to shoot at. I really on shoot by myself. I built a 200 yard range on one of our places east on 21st and have some longer places to shoot in the flint hills but really don't even know what goes on around here. I wouldn't even know where to look. But I've really enjoyed it and hand loading has become a good hobby but only learned it from the internet and AI quite frankly. Of course it takes a while to weed through the misinformation in both and a lot of trial and error.

Really looking forward to the Blast and just hoping to not embarrass myself. will be fun to see what real shooters can do.

There are monthly 100yd matches in Whitewater starting this spring. Great crew of shooters.
There are 2 and 300 yd matches at RiverCreek. (Hutchinson) Also a great crew.
Ponca City has a 200 yd AR match every month and 300 yd BR matches monthly also. Good people down there too.
I shoot as many of these as I can.
It’s all practice for the Blast!

 

[Jerry Snyder]

I shoot bench rest . 600 yards. Weight is good. a 16 inch barrel is not. 20 inch to 24 inch works the best, in both Ar15 and Ar10 platforms.

Agree, I have a 24 inch MTU style contour on my AR-10. For ar-15 platform since this is a one and done, enjoy the day, but be aware, you might get hooked.

 

[Halmccoyii]

Fwiw, you can move your bipod to help the balance. Yes, a longer distance between contact points is more stable, however you can fine tune it to find the point where the gun recoils straight back and doesn't jump sideways on the bipod.

I tune the gas system to reduce felt recoil and gun jump. If you have an adjustable gas block, dial it down until you cannot cycle and then turn it back up just until it does. I tune all my ARs with standard springs and buffer weights this way.

Also, I've found that not all ARs behave the same with the same hold. Some like to be held hard, others like a little bit of freedom in recoil. If you have a modern smart phone, use the slo-motion video to capture it during recoil and cycling to see what it does.

Thanks a bunch. I really took you comment around "same hold" and had a AH HA moment. I shot 2 groups a couple days ago and thought of your note.

I loaded the bipod but not hard. just sort of comfortable with it moved forward but not a lot of pressure. 4 shots in .5 inch. I then loaded it more for 5th shot. It wasn't on purpose really but I noticed it. I think I wanted to shoot a good group. That fifth shot was 1" low. I really didn't expect that. I did the same exact same thing again. I held the lighter load to see if the group woud tighten back up. Exact same result. Virtually zero vertical movement in 75. Just to test I loaded the bipod again harder. 1" low. Sadly I was out of that ammo. I will be testing as I have seen the vertical stringing when I was loading gate bipod harder. Hopefully it holds.

The wind was blowing 9-12 moving from 10:30 to 1:30. So I expected a bit of horizontal.

Thanks for the idea and the push.

 

[Fast14riot]

Excellent results and do continue testing! Good job trying to immediately replicate the results and try to remember the exact hold you used and add it to your mental pre-fire routine of breaking a shot. The hardest part is doing it exactly the same, everytime.