GunsNstuff
Sharpshooter
March 3rd was beautiful 73 degree weather so I thought I'd zero my brand new Sig 1-6 lpvo scope that I put on my AR15, zero the Holosun red dot that came off my AR15 and went onto my AR9 pistol, and for the first time fire my 1873 Colt saa replica. I tried zeroing the scope at 50 yards but I could not hit a paper plate. So I moved up to 30 yards. I still could not hit a paper plate. So I moved up to 10 yards, I still could not hit a paper plate. So I moved to 5 yards. Now I could barely hit a paper plate. I have never mounted a scope that was so far off from the factory.
I made some adjustments and got the hits closer to my point of aim, then moved back. At 20 yards I was hitting maybe 3 inches above and 4 inches right of the point of aim. I adjusted the vertical and got impact to the point of aim vertically. Next I adjusted the horizontal a few clicks, but no movement of the point of impact. So I turned it several more clicks. Again, no movement in the impact. I did this several times with no movement in the impact. Then a few more clicks and now my tight group that was still hitting 4 inches to the right of aim was so far to the left of my point of aim that I was way off the paper plate. It's like the adjustment was sticking and not moving until I had turned the knob so much that it finally came unstuck and shifted WAY to the left of aim. After 80 rounds of wasted 223, this scope is still not even close. I assume now that this $300 scope is a piece of junk that slipped through quality control. People seem to like the US Army Sig lpvo scope, so the make & model is probably good, but mine seems broken. I've had better luck with a BB gun scope on an AR15. Time to contact PSA and see what they can do about this bad purchase.
My AR9 is a gun I built 8 years ago and it had a billet Glock 9mm lower, but I replaced the lower with an 80% standard AR15 lower because I bought several of the Mean Arms 9mm magazine conversion guts for the Magpul mags. The 9mm bolt locks back when the mag is empty like it should. Then just for fun, I put my 223 AR upper on this 80% lower and it will not lock the bolt back on the last round. I also get feeding jams when I try to chamber a rounds. It fired fine, but manually chambering a round, it jammed over and over. Is the magwell bad? Was the milling job from the factory bad? WTF? This makes no sense. I get to looking and the Magpul Gen2 magazine follower does not come up as high as the aluminum magazines I have, so it's not pushing the bolt catch up high enough. It does with the original lower, but not with my 80%. As everyone knows, the 80% already has the magwell machining done, so that is nothing I did wrong. Is the bolt catch I have in the 80% out of spec? Maybe! So I ordered a new one.
So I'm pissed off at this point, but that's ok because I have a few other things to do, like sight in the red dot on my AR9 pistol, which has the new 80% receiver and PSA's 3.5 pound drop in trigger. This I expect would have went well except that every time I pulled the trigger, all I got was the click sound of the hammer falling. Must be the first light primer strike I've ever had with this gun. After thousands of rounds, I have never had this gun jam or misfire once I got the buffer spacer & buffer weight right. I tried over and over, then looked at the live rounds that didn't fire. The primers looked perfect. The last time I shot this gun it worked fine. This time, after driving all the way to where I shoot, the firing pin was broken. The tip was still stuck in the bolt face. What in the holy hell is going on here?
Fine, I'll shoot my Alec Baldwin gun, but in a safer manner. That went ok, even though the front sight looks bent to the left. Not sure how to fix that. I expect the blade is just brazed to the barrel so I don't know how much bending pressure it can take. Oh well, the gun shoots. After firing 20 shots out of it, the ejector rod stuck. I could not push the ejector rod. Now wtf? I took the whole ejector rod housing off and somehow something had gotten into the hole in the frame where the rod comes through and trying to force the rod out peeled a burr on the side of the rod, making it too large to fit through the hole. Ok God, was it the Alec Baldwin joke? Am I just an A-hole? Wtf is going on here?
My cousin's wife brought out her Mini 14 and a 357 snubby revolver. Next problem was her revolver, after shooting a few 38 specials, it jammed up. The ejector rod felt gritty and you could not push it all the way out. Then it would not go all the way back in. Then the cylinder would not even spin. Then the cylinder would not close. I had to take the cylinder swivel screw almost all the way out before it would loosen up enough to swing again. That gun needs a gunsmith.
I usually shoot scrap steel I get from work that's left over from the water jet with pistols, but 223 just punches right through that. So I bought my first piece of AR500 armor so I could shoot steel with the 223 rifles. I thought, since it says it's rated for 300 Win Mag, that the puny 223 Remington wouldn't do anything to this 3/8" thick piece of steel, but I was wrong again. The bullets dug into it. Even dented it to where I can see the dents on the backside. At 50 yards away even. (With the mini14 because my AR15 wouldn't hit a damn thing) I'm not sure what the hell happened yesterday, but a great day turned into a day of cursed gun stuff. I hope everyone else was able to get out and shoot and had a better time than I did.
I made some adjustments and got the hits closer to my point of aim, then moved back. At 20 yards I was hitting maybe 3 inches above and 4 inches right of the point of aim. I adjusted the vertical and got impact to the point of aim vertically. Next I adjusted the horizontal a few clicks, but no movement of the point of impact. So I turned it several more clicks. Again, no movement in the impact. I did this several times with no movement in the impact. Then a few more clicks and now my tight group that was still hitting 4 inches to the right of aim was so far to the left of my point of aim that I was way off the paper plate. It's like the adjustment was sticking and not moving until I had turned the knob so much that it finally came unstuck and shifted WAY to the left of aim. After 80 rounds of wasted 223, this scope is still not even close. I assume now that this $300 scope is a piece of junk that slipped through quality control. People seem to like the US Army Sig lpvo scope, so the make & model is probably good, but mine seems broken. I've had better luck with a BB gun scope on an AR15. Time to contact PSA and see what they can do about this bad purchase.
My AR9 is a gun I built 8 years ago and it had a billet Glock 9mm lower, but I replaced the lower with an 80% standard AR15 lower because I bought several of the Mean Arms 9mm magazine conversion guts for the Magpul mags. The 9mm bolt locks back when the mag is empty like it should. Then just for fun, I put my 223 AR upper on this 80% lower and it will not lock the bolt back on the last round. I also get feeding jams when I try to chamber a rounds. It fired fine, but manually chambering a round, it jammed over and over. Is the magwell bad? Was the milling job from the factory bad? WTF? This makes no sense. I get to looking and the Magpul Gen2 magazine follower does not come up as high as the aluminum magazines I have, so it's not pushing the bolt catch up high enough. It does with the original lower, but not with my 80%. As everyone knows, the 80% already has the magwell machining done, so that is nothing I did wrong. Is the bolt catch I have in the 80% out of spec? Maybe! So I ordered a new one.
So I'm pissed off at this point, but that's ok because I have a few other things to do, like sight in the red dot on my AR9 pistol, which has the new 80% receiver and PSA's 3.5 pound drop in trigger. This I expect would have went well except that every time I pulled the trigger, all I got was the click sound of the hammer falling. Must be the first light primer strike I've ever had with this gun. After thousands of rounds, I have never had this gun jam or misfire once I got the buffer spacer & buffer weight right. I tried over and over, then looked at the live rounds that didn't fire. The primers looked perfect. The last time I shot this gun it worked fine. This time, after driving all the way to where I shoot, the firing pin was broken. The tip was still stuck in the bolt face. What in the holy hell is going on here?
Fine, I'll shoot my Alec Baldwin gun, but in a safer manner. That went ok, even though the front sight looks bent to the left. Not sure how to fix that. I expect the blade is just brazed to the barrel so I don't know how much bending pressure it can take. Oh well, the gun shoots. After firing 20 shots out of it, the ejector rod stuck. I could not push the ejector rod. Now wtf? I took the whole ejector rod housing off and somehow something had gotten into the hole in the frame where the rod comes through and trying to force the rod out peeled a burr on the side of the rod, making it too large to fit through the hole. Ok God, was it the Alec Baldwin joke? Am I just an A-hole? Wtf is going on here?
My cousin's wife brought out her Mini 14 and a 357 snubby revolver. Next problem was her revolver, after shooting a few 38 specials, it jammed up. The ejector rod felt gritty and you could not push it all the way out. Then it would not go all the way back in. Then the cylinder would not even spin. Then the cylinder would not close. I had to take the cylinder swivel screw almost all the way out before it would loosen up enough to swing again. That gun needs a gunsmith.
I usually shoot scrap steel I get from work that's left over from the water jet with pistols, but 223 just punches right through that. So I bought my first piece of AR500 armor so I could shoot steel with the 223 rifles. I thought, since it says it's rated for 300 Win Mag, that the puny 223 Remington wouldn't do anything to this 3/8" thick piece of steel, but I was wrong again. The bullets dug into it. Even dented it to where I can see the dents on the backside. At 50 yards away even. (With the mini14 because my AR15 wouldn't hit a damn thing) I'm not sure what the hell happened yesterday, but a great day turned into a day of cursed gun stuff. I hope everyone else was able to get out and shoot and had a better time than I did.
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