Test of Tac 22 and update of SK Pistol Match Special Performance (sub-MOA) at 100 yards.
Ok. I know I am being a pest. This will be the last of the updates I will do for a while. I suspect people are sick of them.
It was a 35 degree, warming to 45 degree morning with a hard frost on the ground. But, it was dead still and partly cloudy. I located my coat, gloves and hat to saddle up the truck. I picked up 2 black coffees on the way to the range. I had left my equipment in the garage overnight (vehicle and door locked) to acclimate things for today.
When I arrived I set up at 100 yards and shot 20 Tac 22 rounds to warm things up and foul in the barrel. I have switched to small diamond shaped targets 1.06" across with a 0.139" center dot. These are spaced 2.5" outer edge to outside edge across 3 wide. They are 3.0" outer edge to outer edge 4 tall.% %These are on 8.5 by 11 inch paper. POA is the center dot.% As before the 5 shot groups were taken from a bipod with rear bags.
Tac 22 started out nicely with first group at 0.93". But, that size was not to come again. Of the 11 scored groups the range was from 1.92" to 0.93" with an average of 1.43". There were 2 called flyers where I counted the 4 shot groups. There was one group at 2.21" I excluded as it was an unexplained anomaly.% While a few groups had some horizontal stringing the largest variance was vertical. This ended looking almost like a shotgun pattern on these targets from 100 yards through a scope. It had me worried. The larger targets used previously kept this clutter minimal.
As the Tac 22 was performing outside expectations I thought perhaps my scope had come loose or something was amiss with the rifle. Nope. It was my unfamiliarity with using these targets. These targets make over an inch groups look really bad.
In checking the rifle I loaded up SK Pistol Match Special (PMS) and fired 10 fouling rounds and to get close to poa/poi. I then fired 5 at a sighting diamond to try to try for a shoot for the dot.
The next focused 3 five shot groups with PMS ranged from 0.79" to 0.68". The average was 0.73, just under 3/4 inch. Curiously these groups, while consistent in size, progressively lowered. It seems more investigation is needed there.
So it appears my Bergara BMR is solidly a sub moa rifle with PMS if I do my part. At 1.20" to 1.5" the Tac 22 is OK to shoot steel of 2" or more at 100 yards but much smaller could get tricky to do consistently. At least at this temperature. Tac 22 would work for larger pests taking head shots. Certainly plinking at 100 is possible with it as well.
The Bergara BMR will now need testing at 150 yards as well as out at 200 yards.% Doing so probable will not be with Tac 22 in my case.
Ok. I know I am being a pest. This will be the last of the updates I will do for a while. I suspect people are sick of them.
It was a 35 degree, warming to 45 degree morning with a hard frost on the ground. But, it was dead still and partly cloudy. I located my coat, gloves and hat to saddle up the truck. I picked up 2 black coffees on the way to the range. I had left my equipment in the garage overnight (vehicle and door locked) to acclimate things for today.
When I arrived I set up at 100 yards and shot 20 Tac 22 rounds to warm things up and foul in the barrel. I have switched to small diamond shaped targets 1.06" across with a 0.139" center dot. These are spaced 2.5" outer edge to outside edge across 3 wide. They are 3.0" outer edge to outer edge 4 tall.% %These are on 8.5 by 11 inch paper. POA is the center dot.% As before the 5 shot groups were taken from a bipod with rear bags.
Tac 22 started out nicely with first group at 0.93". But, that size was not to come again. Of the 11 scored groups the range was from 1.92" to 0.93" with an average of 1.43". There were 2 called flyers where I counted the 4 shot groups. There was one group at 2.21" I excluded as it was an unexplained anomaly.% While a few groups had some horizontal stringing the largest variance was vertical. This ended looking almost like a shotgun pattern on these targets from 100 yards through a scope. It had me worried. The larger targets used previously kept this clutter minimal.
As the Tac 22 was performing outside expectations I thought perhaps my scope had come loose or something was amiss with the rifle. Nope. It was my unfamiliarity with using these targets. These targets make over an inch groups look really bad.
In checking the rifle I loaded up SK Pistol Match Special (PMS) and fired 10 fouling rounds and to get close to poa/poi. I then fired 5 at a sighting diamond to try to try for a shoot for the dot.
The next focused 3 five shot groups with PMS ranged from 0.79" to 0.68". The average was 0.73, just under 3/4 inch. Curiously these groups, while consistent in size, progressively lowered. It seems more investigation is needed there.
So it appears my Bergara BMR is solidly a sub moa rifle with PMS if I do my part. At 1.20" to 1.5" the Tac 22 is OK to shoot steel of 2" or more at 100 yards but much smaller could get tricky to do consistently. At least at this temperature. Tac 22 would work for larger pests taking head shots. Certainly plinking at 100 is possible with it as well.
The Bergara BMR will now need testing at 150 yards as well as out at 200 yards.% Doing so probable will not be with Tac 22 in my case.
