new guns!

Posted by Greybeard on Sep 26th, 2006 in Shootist | 0 comments

Exciting day today! We were out of the house for a couple of hours, and when we returned home, there was a call on the answering machine. From the B.A.T.F.!!!
After settling down my pulse, I returned their call, that turned out to be a simple matter to rectify. Nothing to do with the type of guns I bought. Whew!
Anyway, a quick trip up to WhiteStone, filled out the paper work, and home I drove with two shiny (well not really all that shiny) new rifles.
The DPMS, is so far everything I expected it to be. A very nicely put together piece of machinery. I can’t wait to get a scope and it and try shooting it. (though the break in procedure sounds a little tedious)
(fire one round, clean, fire one round, clean, and on like that for the 1st 25 rounds, then clean after every 10 rounds up to 100 rounds)
Tomorrow I’ll try a field strip and lube, then possible buy and mount a scope, so I can get started on that break in.

The Tech. Force air rifle, is nice looking, but on closer inspection is obviously not near the quality of the DPMS. It has a shipping gouge on the stock that really bothers me, and I don’t like the way the iron sights line up with the barrel, (they are way off center with the barrel).
I mounted the 3x to 12x scope tonight, and will try sighting it tomorrow some time. If it’s as odd to sight as the iron sights are, I’m going to call it a warped barrel.
It shoots hard, and doesn’t claim any accuracy for the first 100 rounds or so. I was able to shoot about a 3 inch group at 50 ft. (It’s going to have to get a lot better than that)

Bottom line on the Tech. Force,, I’m going to call them tomorrow and check their return policy. I -may- be able to repair the shipping damage to the stock, but I will not tolerate an inaccurate weapon.
We’ll see how tomorrow goes.

Stay tuned for shooter reports on both guns, that’s DPMS LR-308B, and Tech. Force TF-99 in .22 caliber.

~~GB



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