Unscoped and resting, about 1.5 inches at 100, sometimes 1.25. Scoped is around double that. 250 I group about 3.5 to 4 inches. I had to install the scope rail myself. It’s a great rifle
“Unscoped and resting, about 1.5 inches at 100, sometimes 1.25. Scoped is around double that. 250 I group about 3.5 to 4 inches. I had to install the scope rail myself. It’s a great rifle” [This_Dude, post 37]
Outstanding.
Not sure my judgment means much though...over the course of more than a decade and a half in gun sales & repair for a small family dealership, I heard boasts without end from owners of semi-only Kalashnikov clones. But when we asked them what group sizes they obtained, or asked them to show us their test targets, not one of them mentioned a group size nor did any produce a test target.
The senior repair tech I worked with once owned a Kalashnikov clone of uncertain origin, marked GOLDEN WEST ARMS as I recall. He was one of the best marksmen I ever met, and a handloader of extraordinary care and precision, but he could never induce that clone to produce any groups smaller than a dinner plate at 100 yd. So he sold it.
When I was a cadet, I was on the intercollegiate rifle team at the US Air Force Academy. During one routine practice session I cleaned an international rimfire target at 15 meters. But those days soon passed.
When I took up NRA High Power service rifle competition about ten years later, I was never able to coax my M1A (mid-range four-digit) to fire a group tighter than two inches at 100 yd, no matter how I tinkered with the loads.
Got the same results from the Garand M1 I obtained from the then-DCM about five years after that (lightly used Winchester).
All results had been fired from the prone position with a sling, no sandbags nor rests, iron sights: age had been less than kind to my eyeballs, which had not been pilot-qualified to begin with.