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Liberty Class pg.2
Let's take a look at
some quick shooting at the range ...
Note that the scope
was set for a group at the 1 o'clock position @30 yards on the
quickly drawn poster board circles. This wasn't an accuracy session
- it was a shot's per fill session to determine how many shots
per fill struck in the same point of impact area.
First: The disclaimers;
because targets are the dickens to show in pics. 1). If you adjust your scope to take out
the dead center of a target, then you often do just that ... and
you then have nothing to aim at for the next shot. So ... for
testing, most people click the scope off center just alittle,
so you keep the same fresh paper to aim at for each shot. This
produces a target with the holes somewhere other than smack in
the center (like a target should look ... ha ha) ... and that
unnerves some folks. Now that we've explained, we can relax. 2).
You need alittle experience to judge, from the caliber of the
rifle, and thus the caliber of the hole it makes, just what's
a good group or not in a pic. It becomes alot more clear when
you realize you can cover all three holes with a dime or a quarter!
3). Finally, a 4X scope is a hunting scope. It's not a
target scope. A target scope sort of gives you tunnel vision -
gives you a very small field of view, and would make it real hard
to even find a squirrel in a tree. The lower 4X scope allows you
to see movement, and provides decent sighting. However, thru a
4X scope, a Quarter at 30 yards looks like a single green pea
on a dinner plate. Whereas, with a true target scope ... the single
green pea would look like a beach ball.
For the test, shooting
was done with a simple long eye relief 4 power scope. The reservoir
was filled and the shots numbered on the posterboard target. I
show samples from along the string of shots. Remember, we just
want to see how many shots fell into the same relative Point of
Impact @ 30 yards. "Load/aim/shoot. Load/aim/shot ... etc.
mark target ... load/aim/shoot".
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I explained the test to this
degree because this rifle is able to give great performance with
very simple, inexpensive, readily available round lead ball. I'll
do more testing later, with a more powerful scope, and we'll do
some accuracy shooting. I think you can see, from even these quick
results, that it's very good.
Barrel was not cleaned
during the string.