I bought a NIB Savage Model 10 FCP in .308Win on Saturday, found a 20 moa Burris sigle piece picatinny rail mount at Academy last night, mounted a Nikon M-223 2-8x scope from my AR and a Harris bipod from the same AR on the rifle and took it to the range. The Nikon scope is sized for an AR and has a 20 moa slant built in to it, so I dialed the scope down 20 moa from where it was on the AR and fired a round at 25 yards. 2" left and 1" down, not bad, so I made the corrections and went to 100 yards for the second round. This one was 1" high and 3" left so I made those corrections and then shot 4 rounds in a 1-3/8" group. Next, I changed from the Vortex 168 ammo to Rem 168 MK BTHP and shot the first round a little high, went down 1 moa and fired off the next 4 rounds in this group, about 1-1/4" center-center:
I think if I had used a gridded target instead of the plain 3x4 card I could have shot a sub-moa group in the first 10 rounds with this new rifle, even with the wrong scope mounted about 1/2" too high. I stopped for the day, went home, ran some patches through the bore and declared victory, for now. Next are the right scope rings and a 5-20x scope dedicated to this rifle. Then 300-550 yard paper. I'm learning. I'm very happy with my choice of the Savage rifle.
Joe
Joe, I use the free Targetz PDF's which you can download and print yourself. Link here: http://www.targetz.com/targetzlib/10058.pdf That is the main one I use, but if you go to their base site http://www.targetz.com they have a gazillion different targets one can download free. The 10058 target has 4 heavy lines to help with scope centering and the 1MOA dot as the aiming point.
Nicely done!!! Welcome to the addiction.
way to go ,it will only get better
drybean
Hey, Joe! You made it over from SF.
Yup, I take good advice when offered!Originally Posted by Opus Dei
Joe
Got some scope rings with the correct elevation for my little Nikon M-223 scope and shot it last night prone. I'm still not comfortable behind the bolt gun compared to an AR but I'm getting there. Several more 1" groups with the deviations being me, not the gun. Time for a good scope and more ammo.
Joe
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