stillquietvoice
Contributing Member
Member @troy fairweather and I planned a range trip for today, starting between 9 and 10 today, life happened and I slept till almost 9, but did manage to pick him up arround 11:30. We arrived at my home range a little after noon. Range was quiet there was one pickup that arrived right after I opened yhe gate. Anyway we set up targets at 25 yds for some initial sight ins, had to mount my new droptine 4.5-14×42 and ecided too until it on my AR 15 5.56 in order to mount a known good optic on my 93 small ring mauser. This Bushnell banner 3-9 x40 has performed flawlessly on my AR for 2 years since I bought it at a thrift store.
Well sorry to say that the 7x57 needs more thorough investigation because the scope change didn't allow a zero. The upside is that the burris was nearly zeroed right at mounting, 5 round group at 25 were all within the aim point, couldn't see them at first but a walk to the 35 yd line revealed their location. Zero was verified at 100 yds then set fir 200 and first aim point on the back was dead on at 300 meters.
Did a side by side comparison between my burris ff2 and my new droptine both 4.5-14x42 and found that neither troy or myself couldn't see any optical difference between the 2 optics.
Troy brought several rifles including his cz American 7.62x39, ruger 77 7x57, mauser18 6.5prc and iirc Winchester 7mm wsm.
He let me shoot his cz, ruger 77, and m18 6.5 prc. Was pretty impressed with all 3 rifles but found that his 6.5 prc to be a cartridge that I'm capable of shooting as the recoil, though heavy was quite manageable due to it being more of a push, slower recoil speed, than a fast sharp recoil like the 7mm mag. Hit the 200 meter plate one shot out of 2, my fault not the rifles cause it shot flatter than I expected.
Fact is that we both had a great time and got to stretch out our rifles legs a bit.
Well sorry to say that the 7x57 needs more thorough investigation because the scope change didn't allow a zero. The upside is that the burris was nearly zeroed right at mounting, 5 round group at 25 were all within the aim point, couldn't see them at first but a walk to the 35 yd line revealed their location. Zero was verified at 100 yds then set fir 200 and first aim point on the back was dead on at 300 meters.
Did a side by side comparison between my burris ff2 and my new droptine both 4.5-14x42 and found that neither troy or myself couldn't see any optical difference between the 2 optics.
Troy brought several rifles including his cz American 7.62x39, ruger 77 7x57, mauser18 6.5prc and iirc Winchester 7mm wsm.
He let me shoot his cz, ruger 77, and m18 6.5 prc. Was pretty impressed with all 3 rifles but found that his 6.5 prc to be a cartridge that I'm capable of shooting as the recoil, though heavy was quite manageable due to it being more of a push, slower recoil speed, than a fast sharp recoil like the 7mm mag. Hit the 200 meter plate one shot out of 2, my fault not the rifles cause it shot flatter than I expected.
Fact is that we both had a great time and got to stretch out our rifles legs a bit.
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