greyling22
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So, first off, this is a not a flame thread, it is a serious question.
I have 2 buddies with springfield m1a's that have not been shot much. under 500 rounds each. 1st guy has it stock with a springfield gen 3 12x scope and a springfield scope mount, and off a sandbags, at 85yds, with 3 different guys and 5 different ammo's (all big name brand boxes from walmart), it groups about 7" with some tendency for vertical or diagonal stringing.
buddy #2 has one with the archangel stock, millet buck gold 16x scope, and arms mount. He was just shooting some random ball ammo in unbranded white boxes he found at a guns show. 3 shooters, avg groups about 5" at 85yds using a bipod on the front and a sandbag at the rear. No stringing, just not grouping very tight.
so my question is this: Are we doing something wrong? Do m1a's require a fair bit of tweaking to get to shoot? I was under the impression that m1a's were pretty accurate. I'm not seeing it thus far. This is the kind of accuracy I would expect from an sks firing cheap russian ammo.
About the only think I knew to check was to see if the trigger groups were tight, and they were. The guy with the first one has been struggling with it for years. I swapped the scope for him at one point and it persisted, so I thought maybe it was the mount. But then the 2nd guy started off with poor accuracy as well. 1 gun I thought might have been a fluke or something rubbing, but 2 guns has got me thinking maybe I am missing something.
I have 2 buddies with springfield m1a's that have not been shot much. under 500 rounds each. 1st guy has it stock with a springfield gen 3 12x scope and a springfield scope mount, and off a sandbags, at 85yds, with 3 different guys and 5 different ammo's (all big name brand boxes from walmart), it groups about 7" with some tendency for vertical or diagonal stringing.
buddy #2 has one with the archangel stock, millet buck gold 16x scope, and arms mount. He was just shooting some random ball ammo in unbranded white boxes he found at a guns show. 3 shooters, avg groups about 5" at 85yds using a bipod on the front and a sandbag at the rear. No stringing, just not grouping very tight.
so my question is this: Are we doing something wrong? Do m1a's require a fair bit of tweaking to get to shoot? I was under the impression that m1a's were pretty accurate. I'm not seeing it thus far. This is the kind of accuracy I would expect from an sks firing cheap russian ammo.
About the only think I knew to check was to see if the trigger groups were tight, and they were. The guy with the first one has been struggling with it for years. I swapped the scope for him at one point and it persisted, so I thought maybe it was the mount. But then the 2nd guy started off with poor accuracy as well. 1 gun I thought might have been a fluke or something rubbing, but 2 guns has got me thinking maybe I am missing something.