I’m honestly kind of between this and the wind plex

My Cooper used to do one holers at 50 yards with the Federal Gold Metal that's no longer available.

Here’s a fact, the most accurate rifles are built by the United States Army Marksmanship Unit for their Service Rifle Team. Thing is, anyone can put together a rifle following the USAMU pattern for .5 MOA performance shooting match grade ammunition such as Mk262 or 77 grain FGMM. For the most part it’s a Kreiger or similar 1/8 twist match grade barrel 1 inch diameter under free float hand guard, Geissele 2 stage trigger, and quarter minute iron or optic sights sans backlash. Of course, even with a rifle built as described the shooter’s skill will determine results. For sure the problem here is the author of this video needs to learn how to use a 6 o’clock hold to get a consistent sight picture, as well as learn how to correctly counter for wind. His testimony reveals the problem using a Kestrel for wind is it reads at firing point when it’s midrange wind that’s most important and to understand it, its effect on environment must be observed. Lastly, the magnification of the scope does not at all equate to accuracy as proven from US Service Rifle Scores produced by Champion Shooters where iron sight scores rival or even surpass magnified optic scores. My experience with this stuff is mostly as a US Service Rifle and Long-Range Competitor , and CMP-USAMU Military Rifle Instructor.

Hoppes is 💩

77 SMKs work very well out to 600. I use them, mk262 a lot in service rifle if I don’t feel like loading 80.5s for the 600 yard line. You just have to be really on top of your wind calling

Wow lots of comments. Good video.

I understand what you're saying but as far as Magpul is concerned, they build those with the intention of loading. Whether we find it to be accepted or not. I don't own a pair so I have no skin in the game. I'm just giving them some kind of credit since they didn't design them with the intent to have no slack. So they haven't done anything wrong in this comparison. That's all. I like the video though. Thanks for the content

I have seen some individuals who have done tests, that didn’t know they could keep turning past the 9 to go to ten and beyond. I will be ordering an ECTuner on my next check.

Thank you for pointing out the parallax knob and its markings. X-Ring pointed it out and I’ve been researching for a way around it or it’s a no brainer or I might just be overthinking it.

What did that bad boy cost you?

You need to learn how to mount scopes and red dots correctly!!!

Lol no wasn't about you I loved your video it was comments

EC Tuner brake!

You're ready for AR Tactical at Bucksnort if you ditch the brake and add the scope for the competition scenario.

I personally have better luck with cross hairs bdc retical.

I found on my ar with 20 proof barrel likes almost anything with a sierra 77gn otm bullet or barnes 85gn otm.

Retq the barrel

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So it's about what i expected for a semiautomatic. I would try just the 62 grain green tip. And your wind is crazy as well. So hard to tell honestly

OH the Dag Gum ='s God Dam. Why just not say God Dam as we all know what you mean.

Funny. Used Remington Nylon66 I bought , with open sights and cheap ammo from S&B makes like the best group on 50 meters.

Did I miss the note on what Twist Rate that BBL has? Twist Rate, Length, Bullet Weight, they all must be taken into consideration. I would suggest trying a greater range in grain to see if there are any improvements. 55 and up would be likely.

6.5 Grindel is head & shoulders above the 556

Any idea how these will handle the recoil and pressure from the larger cartridges on the Lapua bolt face? .378 Weatherby family in particular?

What is the twist rate of the new barrel?

Seems to me, if you were truly interested in chasing accuracy you would have invested in a precision barrel and bolt over a magnifier and can.

It is called barrel harmonics, you will have to find the combination of bullet and powder weight that your barrel likes. I have a cheap Wilson Combat 20 inch fluted 1/8 twist no break, it likes Varget and 77gr Berger OTM. The Geissele SSA-E trigger, SWFA x10 scope do help. Shoots sub moa at 100 yards.

What twist on the Proof barrel. You are a reloader cmon trickle 20 hand loads it won't take you long and get back out there, with your shooting capability I feel like that rifle is capable of more.

I'd also recommend an AR mount for it. That'll push that optic a little further forward for you. 🤙 sick seeing this build shape up.

Impact at 1000 yards from a 6 ARC would be non-trivial.

Shooting 1 MOA groups with any AR is very good shooting, no matter how small the sample size, so kudoz to you. However, your sample sizes are simply too small. 5 shot groups are too small to be considered data. Remember, there are no anomalies and all shots count. With larger sample sizes you’ll see that those anomalies are well within the bell curve and will look less like anomalies.

A decent approach to better precision out of an AR15. Some comments below suggest installing a match grade barrel. I shoot a lot of 223 Rem and can offer that a less expensive approach is to use match grade ammo in the 68gram to 77gr range. PMC X-Tac makes an affordable but accurate match round. Federal w/Berger 73gr is really accurate. Sub MOA for sure. I assume your twist is 1:8. Surprised your sponsor is Arken but you did not use an Arken scope. Their new 1-8 LPVO would be a great test. More magnification above 3X will improve accuracy.

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Great video Joel. 1 Moa is all you need 👍🏼

Would love to see what Hornady 75g ELD-M and a JP buffer might do.

Testing a bipod based on how it shoots is like testing a magazine based on how accurate it is in a bolt action it’s meaningless and completely ignores the whole purpose of a bipod

very nice! i am building something like this. standard Anderson lower. and BCA 20" heavy barrel upper. with the arken SH4 GEN2 4-24. with a JP trigger spring kit. (budget build) looking for 400-500 yards. about to do the review on the upper. and the ammo evaluation for it. thanks for doing this one. seems every body wants to go 1K or "ONE MILE .223!" or some over dramatic application for this round. high wind and max weight. this was a good test!

I found those 77gr SMK's to be pretty forgiving and shoot well in most rifles as long as they have a fast enough twist.

Thanks for the video, just purchased the exact same one for my sons birthday coming up

I’ve had nothing but bad luck with SD and Ex Spread with Fed GMM ammo in 223/556, 308 and 6.5 CM. Berger 140 Hybrid get me 7.4 SD with Spread of 19. 18 round shot string

Seating depth or bullet choice probably the issue when ES and SD are Okay. Or scope/mount. Don’t need more magnification - need a better reticle.

Good video. Tune the system and then test again.

I’ve been having great results with 77gr MEAD ammo. Best out of everything I’ve tried. But they raised their prices to a point where I prob will not order from them again. I just can’t do DOUBLE the prices of PSA AAC. I’ll pay more for better quality or performance but there is a limit. Loving the videos. ‼️‼️