Originally posted by In service to His Majesty:
I bought one almost a year ago. To be very honest, I still haven't had it out to the range.
I corrected the situation today. Went out to a 50 yd. indoor range and put about 25 rounds through her (due to one hour range time costing $15).
It took me a while to get the gas setting right. Finally ended up at number 4, cranked it one more to 3 as the owners manual recommends.
Had some 3-shot groups where all three went into one hole. I would say these groups were about .4"-.5". Had some others open up due to the smokiness of the range and the masking tape I used as pasties obscured my orange circle.
Some malfunctions after the gas setting was established, but these were due to one faulty magazine (out of 6) and a rifle that wasn't oiled enough. The rifle was much too dry. Any autoloader I've ever had behaves badly when it isn't lubricated properly, so I take no offense with DSA.
All shooting was done with English surplus ammo from 1989 (small 20-round white boxes labeled L2A2). I was a little mad because the range owner wouldn't allow my PMC MilSpec ammo on the range. He put it up to a magnet and the darned bullet stuck! What the heck? Why is there steel in these bullets? This is firmly against the Geneva Convention, so PMC needs to re-label their ammo. It is
NOTMilSpec. Sorry about the digression.
Anyway, all went well. I was very happy with the accuracy and function. Plus, I had every guy on the range eyeballing my machine. They were diggin' it. And the muzzle brake does make it go
BOOM!
Take care,
Rob