Anvil
09-28-2008, 01:50 AM
It's been 3 months since I got the gun and I hadn't made it out to the range until Friday. I had to requal with my duty gun and shotgun for in-service so there I was all day long shooting in dim light, flashlight courses, duty qual and shotgun course when after long last, lots of waiting and enough shooting to turn me off to the sport for about a week when the range session was finally finished for "official department business" and I could play.
Now I say all this to lay the ground work that I didn't want to be at the range and I was just turned off to guns in general when I shot the AR-24 but when I did It was actually pleasurable. My shooting hand was sore, I didn't have enough sleep the night before, I hadn't eaten any breakfast or lunch and I needed to pee by the time I got my AR-24 out and still it was so much fun I just kept loading the magazine again and again.
I shot about 80 rounds or so through it and there was no hick-up.
The gun has no recoil. That is to say shooting it is like knocking on a door. There's just nothing unpleasant there in the grip at all. When you shoot it there is just so much slide mass that there is no muzzle flip to speak of and the 9mm is a pussy cat round in a gun this heavy.
The sights were lacking and will have to be replaced. There's just nothing nice I can say about the sights, they don't belong on a gun. I shot low at 7 yards by 2" but the groups were so tight that the target I had was almost useless.
The gun was so accurate that I had to shoot an index shot, and then just put my other bullets as close to that first hole as I could. Folks, this gun can make a ragged hole. Even at rapid fire, IDPA speed, I was still fitting all shots in a group the size of a girls fist at 7 yards and I'm not a competition shooter. I put the gun in the hands of a IDPA competitive shooter, Rick Simes, (semi pro competitive shooter and range hustler) He seemed to like it but the trigger out of the box we agreed could use a gunsmiths touch though for a new gun, the trigger was mighty fine. It was probably around 12 pounds double and about 6 pounds single with a noticeable hump as you stage the trigger.
Advance Plating and Weaponry will fix the sight issue by fitting a new set of sights to the gun. It is a manufacturers defect in my opinion but that's why they make adjustable sights.
Rick encouraged me to sell it to him when the "new" wore off. I was quick to tell him this gun will be buried with me. He just blew me off saying it would be a safe queen.
He's right. I'll be buried with my GP100. GOD after all prefers revolvers.
Now I say all this to lay the ground work that I didn't want to be at the range and I was just turned off to guns in general when I shot the AR-24 but when I did It was actually pleasurable. My shooting hand was sore, I didn't have enough sleep the night before, I hadn't eaten any breakfast or lunch and I needed to pee by the time I got my AR-24 out and still it was so much fun I just kept loading the magazine again and again.
I shot about 80 rounds or so through it and there was no hick-up.
The gun has no recoil. That is to say shooting it is like knocking on a door. There's just nothing unpleasant there in the grip at all. When you shoot it there is just so much slide mass that there is no muzzle flip to speak of and the 9mm is a pussy cat round in a gun this heavy.
The sights were lacking and will have to be replaced. There's just nothing nice I can say about the sights, they don't belong on a gun. I shot low at 7 yards by 2" but the groups were so tight that the target I had was almost useless.
The gun was so accurate that I had to shoot an index shot, and then just put my other bullets as close to that first hole as I could. Folks, this gun can make a ragged hole. Even at rapid fire, IDPA speed, I was still fitting all shots in a group the size of a girls fist at 7 yards and I'm not a competition shooter. I put the gun in the hands of a IDPA competitive shooter, Rick Simes, (semi pro competitive shooter and range hustler) He seemed to like it but the trigger out of the box we agreed could use a gunsmiths touch though for a new gun, the trigger was mighty fine. It was probably around 12 pounds double and about 6 pounds single with a noticeable hump as you stage the trigger.
Advance Plating and Weaponry will fix the sight issue by fitting a new set of sights to the gun. It is a manufacturers defect in my opinion but that's why they make adjustable sights.
Rick encouraged me to sell it to him when the "new" wore off. I was quick to tell him this gun will be buried with me. He just blew me off saying it would be a safe queen.
He's right. I'll be buried with my GP100. GOD after all prefers revolvers.