My nephew used this target to sight in
my M1 Garand. Previously I had adjusted the sights at only
25 yards at the gun range, so the windage was spot on.
But as I would have expected, the Garand shot high at 100 yards so
after firing two rounds my nephew adjusted the M-1's sights to
lower his point of impact. Still shooting high, he once
again adjusted the sights to pull his rounds dead center resulting
in three in the center ring.
One of the beauties of the
M1 is that it has so much power and penetration that your
adversary might be choosing a barricade to protect him only to
find out that the 30--06 military rounds go right through it.
Example in point is that the Belleville gun range will only allow
shooters to fire 30-06 ammo so long as they are not military steel
jacketed bullets. The reason why is such bullets were
engineered to penetrate through lightly armored vehicles and will
penetrate the steel backstops at most gun ranges. When I was
just 12 years old and tried out my Springfield for the first time
I found out that the military armor piercing rounds would go right
through trees up to three feet in diameter.
Considering my nephew as not using a
scope this is terrific real world accuracy, especially when you
consider that the M1 delivers 8 rounds as fast as you can pull
the trigger with low recoil.
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