As you may remember, I bought an AR variant called a KelTec SU16-C to protect MM from Contract Killer Vengeful Chipmunk Organized Wave Attacks while we were considering a trip to the unknown Virginia side of the Blue Ridge.

The trip never came off, but the rifle did.  

Once the bulk brass buying was done, the cases were sorted and tumbled, sized and trimmed and the primer pockets were all reamed.  Then the cases then got reloaded in 3 different bullet weights and two major load levels (mean and wimpy) so I could share some ammo with MM without "springing" up on his Thompson Centers at their hinge area/lockup weak point.

Hurricane interruptions and wife eye surgeries intervened, but I finally pulled it all together and the range time finally came due today.

First thing I noticed is that the various bullet types and weights all shoot to the same group at 50 yards through the 4x Ruger scope (in a roundish 2" x 2" group that included some fast firing and some slow squeezing).

This zero point was chosen as it puts the gun about an inch high at 100 yards and back to zero at 200 yards.   Why 200 yards?  I got two hunting bullets that are constructed and meant for big game and it is legal to hunt with the gun in NC if I put a 5 round block into the short 10 round magazine.

Same rounds will go into 30 round mags for SHTF duty, and will do just fine at short and longer ranges.

Gun carries a 4x Ruger fixed scope for daytime long range shooting, a no magnification reflex red dot sight for moving targets and a laser for inside the house when you need to know where the bullet is going to hit with some "easy to use for terrified people" short range precision.  

Follow the logic.

Step #1, get the 4x main scope dialed to be spot on at 50 yards (5.56 ballistics then says you are  gonna be 1" high at 100 yards and spot on again at 200 yards).

Step #2, use the scope crosshair position to zero the red dot reflex sight.   (Hey, the reflex isn't nearly as refined as the 4x fixed scope's definition, but as long as it, the 4x fixed scope and the laser all are taught to agree at the various relevant distances you are good to go.)   Do this same trick with the laser sight.

Step #3,  checking back at 25 and 50 yards by shooting each kind of rounds found the system works within an inch of parallax error (red dot and laser are both offset a bit vs the 4x scope and the bore axis).

So, I am pleased with the rifle and the 3 sight system set up,  as I am now good for day vs night and for close vs far with the 3 sight systems that are on the gun (systems my old eyes can actually use).

   
Justin, they were all consenting "of age" female primer pockets, yes they were somewhat staked and crimped closed by militaristic conformity (remember their primers were all actually blown by somebody else, not by me) but they are still able to be deflowered and restored by my de-capping pin and the squealing rotating crimp reamer that followed the pin into those particularly overly tight orifices  ......  

...... and remember, men have been reaming out female primer pockets all along since primer pockets were created ......

....... but please do remember, I am not trying to sit on the Supreme Court and threatening to stop all the silly liberals from using Supreme Court Judges to do what they can't get the Legislature or the President to do.

I have a 16" 7 twist chrome plated bore barrel that will shoot 69 grain, 62 grain and 55 grain into the same 2" by 2" multi group pattern at 100 yards.

Taking single shots aimed at each quadrant intersect point on a big target tells me the heaviest 69 grain bullet hits a consistent half an inch below the 55 grainers.   This is not a big difference to me since my best grouping shooting 10 of either one is over an inch by an inch (so it is within the natural group variation of ether of the bullet weights anyway)

I have a new higher magnification scope coming, a Simmons variable 4-12x40 specifically in hopes that a new higher magnification scope will give me some better results.   New scope was on 30% off closeout sale with a 5% off and free shipping coupon code from Optics Planet.   This is essentially the same scope as was on the K-31 rifle but it is 4-12x40 variable instead of 3-9x40 variable like is on the Swiss K-31.    I currently have a 4x single power scope sitting on the SU16C right now, and I am really feeling sorta "under scoped" at the moment.

I got 1,000 rounds of Federal Fusion bonded 62 grain hunting bullets, 1,000 of a 69 grain GameKing type (controlled early expansion w/deep penetration deer hunting type) and 2,000 of the standard 55 grain military FMJ "built to tumble" bullet over milsurp powder for plinking around a bit.

A butter tub of 55 grain FMJ plinkers was put up intentionally "on the slow side of book spec limits" so as to not damage your Contender any further.   Your Contender's action is a little loose already, you know that, right?

You missed one on the butter tub comment, getting a little slow there Justin.


Me, I'd not want to get shot with a 55 grain "built to tumble" FMJ bullet ......    This stuff will go through normal body vests and go right on out the other side, tumbling at least once in between.    It will penetrate a car door with the glass down, an angled windshield, the side glass, etc etc.    

And this is my wimpy MM plinkin' stuff ......


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPzxBJSIaGA        It's a ballistics jell test, so jest click and watch

I don't own a 22 long rifle anything any longer .......  passed all of them pea shooters on down to the nephew, the son in law, etc.

You know, you never did set up any form of scoot and shoot at your farm this year and it may be getting a bit late in the season now.    

Mebbe next year .....

If you check in with the security company you can stay several days at some Walmarts, but you have to be parked well off to the side of the lot.

Malls are easy too, several days no sweat.

If you go to the campground tool it shows the SuperWalmarts that are camper friendly as part of the listing.


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Cavanaugh was confirmed yesterday by the Senate.

I wonder if the liberals who treated him so poorly realize what a "not-a-friend" they have now created by their high levels of absurd public abuse, now that he has been put on to the Supreme Court bench for the next 30 years ......