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So after months of study and conversation I finally took the plunge and bought a Scout in walnut furniture. I spent the first couple weeks of ownership obsessing about the cost of ownership. It's about three times as expensive as my next most expensive gun and it eats ammo that's also three times as expensive. Getting the irons sighted in was fun, but I obsessed about the whole range and MOA thing.
Today I had it out and just shot at old paper targets on the 100 yard range. It was too muddy and I was too lazy to set up real targets, so I just plinked at trash others had left out there. Damn, was that fun! I shot three boxes of 308 and never measured a thing. Just watched the paper fly up in the air. It finally occurred to me that this is one of the sweet spots of the M!4/M1A. Appleseed taught me the fundamentals and I get that Minute of Pop Can at 100 yards is barely Minute of Zombie at 400 yards, but making paper scraps fly at 100 yards off hand at 100 yards is a ton of fun. I'm hooked.
Today I had it out and just shot at old paper targets on the 100 yard range. It was too muddy and I was too lazy to set up real targets, so I just plinked at trash others had left out there. Damn, was that fun! I shot three boxes of 308 and never measured a thing. Just watched the paper fly up in the air. It finally occurred to me that this is one of the sweet spots of the M!4/M1A. Appleseed taught me the fundamentals and I get that Minute of Pop Can at 100 yards is barely Minute of Zombie at 400 yards, but making paper scraps fly at 100 yards off hand at 100 yards is a ton of fun. I'm hooked.