so, i took a half day off to have some fun at the range - to re-zero tavor on the x3 prism and brake-in new LaRue.
some things are painfully obvious now - like, i need to go get my eyes checked again, and probably get new glasses, and, as expected, this AR hates steel.
it was doing the most typical AR thing with it - when it gets hot, and you take a good pause between shots - round does not stuck completely, there were no issues to eject, but, it had plenty of issues to load as it was sticking in there. with rapid fire - no issues at all, but, if you do hesitate and take time to aim - then next round after shot may not load, or get stuck loading mid way. it quite sucks, as brass .223 is quite scarce still ad all i have to plink with is steel.
it also did not help much that i had a mix of wolf and tula, and i have a certain feeling that out of 5 30rd mags i ran through it - 2 went through much smoother than other 3.
dunno, i will need to come back to it all again, with different ammo and then will need to decide what to do with scopes, as vortex 1-6x i did set on it was not really working well with my eyes anymore. either i need new glasses, or new set of eyes or a diff scope. at the end i could not keep focus on the reticle and target at all, all was moving back and forth to blurry and back into focus, sucks.
so, an overall feel of today - it was remarkably inconsistent. bad spread initially, then improved, then not quite nice again.
the improved result is below - after i assumed i have zeroed it well enough for the kind of ammo i had - I was able to produce those 3 groups - and see how upper right is all over the place with 3 shots there - that was the last 3 shots on this target.
so after that i presumed "it is what it is" and was acceptable enough result for the steel rounds i had, even so one group was consistently low and the other one was high - hmm - and then went with the next mag to the round target, and it got a much worse spread. go figure. it was closer to the end of the session, so the barrel was same hot on both those takes, and target above was shot non-stop also. quite remarkable that not a single one did hit a bullseye there.
it was all 55gr ammo, i do not have 68gr nor 77gr - CMP did not ship nothing yet. and i have a certain feeling that either tula or wolf - dunno which one is which - was doing way better than the other.
so, now i got to wait for CMP orders to come through and bring me some match grade rounds for the next attempt.