What type of accuracy do you get out of it on paper? When you can get a beast like this that feeds right why would you buy a mini 30 or AK. I still want their 11.5 7.62x39 upper.
Not yet put on paper. First night I had just enough time to use steel for thermal. Came back a few days later and did a quick set of my irons using the 4" steel at 50. It was as dead on as I can put glass at 50. Backed up to 100 and wore the paint off the 4" that's good enough for me at the moment. This weekend I will get a shoot n see out and see if I can squeeze a bit more accuracy out, but it would only be elevation my windage is perfect. I grew up shooting irons and am really comfortable with them doing a bit of a hold under so I don't blur out my target with the sight post. Problem can be depending on the iron you are taking 1-1.5moa jumps with ever click of the post...from what I can tell I'm getting about 1.5" per click and if I do any more of a hold under meh may not wanna be 4" high at 100. I'd use this for deer in a nano second our ranges are 100 or less and I know it's a 2moa gun worst case scenario with some magnification. I use high shoulder/spine shots on deer and this round would do all that and more no problemo.
Got 2 more tuesday night and for once actually had to take a long shot. Smoked a piglet of a group of maybe 8 my buddy missed the sow. So we go to the next field since they were about 10 yards from the woods. Sure enough she come out in the high grass. appears, disappears, appears.....after about 20 seconds she stops ina little clearing. I guesstimated she was 150 yards at least and passed on a head shot as I was leaning off a truck and went for double lung and she dropped on face front legs collapsed, jumped up and did the disco circle got her in the gut she crumpled put one more in her for good measure you can see the 3rd shot i put in her titties. We walked off to what we put at jus shy of 200. Felt good to log a hog at that distance with thermal as I've said before our average shot is usually 50 yards max.
Ran the Cproducts 10 and Ross Zheng Unimag both run great. Going to ditch the ASC's too hard to load and keep running the RNZ. CPD is still a November backorder on 20's but getting ready to ship 30's. RNZ holds 24 x39 and loads with same pressure from first to last. Will see how it holds up long term but liking it.
Piglet at maybe 40 yards....not a clear pic sorry not a photo pro, but see a little dark behind head and under chin that's blood from noggin shot.
Mama 10 minutes later. While nowhere near the footprint of that brown boarzilla from last Friday this ol girl weighed a lot she was like a ton of bricks....took out a lot of little trouble makers right there.
After 7 days I believe I may like this rifle more than anything I've used in years. 30 caliber punch on the cheap with recoil of tame ar15, eats Wolf and Tula FMJ/HP/SP like a fat boy loves cake, an x39 which can use at least 3 different makes of mag worry free(asc, cpd, rnz) and extremely light carrying 24 rounds.
coming from a 308AR this is a treat which will be extra nice when can gets here.
**Just weighed it with a crude measurement of 8.5 pounds with loaded mag and thermal. Weighed myself and then subtracted from weigh in + rifle.