Question about the EEA Witness Match in 45 acp

[usmcdadx2]

The nearest range is only open on weekends during the winter months so I'm hoping for this coming weekend. I toyed with going out last weekend but it's an outdoor range and, once wind chill was factored in, it was about 5 below outside... so I wussed out.

[usmcdadx2]

OK so I got to the range on Saturday, still cold(about 6 or 8 with wind chill), but I had to try my new range toy out. I decided to start at the 10 yard line. For starters the sights that seemed so easy to pick up in the house didn't acquire quite so well outdoors. I think this is less of a sight problem and more "old eyes", I'll try changing to a fiber optic front post later. Due to the cold and wind I only ran through one box of Federal 230 FMJ ammo before I called it a day. The gun functioned perfectly every round fed, fired and ejected without a hitch. If anything I think the ejection is a bit too positive, this thing really threw the empties. As for accuracy I planned to load and shoot 5 at a time both from a braced rest and offhand to see how well it grouped. That went out the window with the first 5 shots. At ten yards all were low and right. We’re talking I didn’t even hit the 3’x3’ backerboard on the target. So I blew 26 of my rounds tinkering with the sights until I felt they were good enough to put up a clean target, a 12” circle with a 2” bull. I fired 2, 5 shot groups from my rest with one group just to the left of the bull and the other, 1st round in the red and the rest of the group just higher and right. The left group measures just a bit over 1.5” and the right group came in at just under 2”. My next 5 shot group was seated, offhand, slow fire and this gave me two one hole groups; 3 on the 4” ring and 2 slightly higher and centered in the 8”, 9 ring.. For my last 9 shots I loaded them all and fired as fast as I could get the sights back on target with all of the shots being in or touching the 9 ring. I gotta say this kind of accuracy from an unfamiliar gun and frozen hands is easily as “good as I get”. The only possible issue I noticed is that there seems to be a bit more trigger pretravel after the range session than before, I’ll have to watch to see if this is due to breaking it in or if the pretravel screw isn’t locked in place.

[twyacht]

6 or 8 with wind chill? Dude,.....

Looks like the sight adjustment worked for you. Hope it warms up to maybe above freezing for you next time. 

Thanks for the picture. That looks like combat accuracy, for sure, and will probably be better when your hands aren't frozen...

tw

[usmcdadx2]

So was that really Dude or more like DUMBA..., by the time I was done it felt more like the latter. The merc. temp was about 12 and if you were out of the wind it didn't seem all that bad but out on the firing line with the wind straight in my face was a whole different kettle of fish. Like I said, new gun and conditions factored in, I'm really happy with this purchase.

[twyacht]

It was really Dude..... As in hardcore shooter dude... I used to play golf on days when I had the course to my self and swung like the stay puff marshmellow man, and wondered why I was by myself out here???

The wind, the temps in the 30's,? wind chill in the teens?  Those sissy's in the clubhouse drinking Irish Coffee....

I understand....

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[usmcdadx2]

Been there, done that and around here you get to add so many leaves on the ground you can lose your ball in the middle of the fairway, boy does that suck.

Other than the cold, the range was pretty cool because I had the whole firing line to myself. During the winter if it's a nice day you usually have to wait your turn at any of the 15 yard or less stations plus if there were a lot of people out, the range officer would have chewed me out for my final string. Years ago they had problems with idiots who didn't understand recoil management sending rounds astray under rapid fire so now they have a 5 second between shots rule. They usually let me get away with a shot a second but they draw the line at anything more. I'm a long way from the speed of a competionion shooter but I was easily shooting faster than they normally allow.