This went well! Range was closed on Wednesday due to standing water from Tuesday night rain, so all was good today at the outdoor range. I only shot the Desert Eagle 1911G with a new Kart barrel and the Burris Fast Fire 3 3moa red dot that I installed on Tuesday. Here is the pistol.
I had to share the rifle bay with one other fellow, so I had to minimize my trips down range to check the targets, as I did not bring a spotting scope. (I will bring one next time as it is actually kinda of inconsiderate of me to ask for a cease fire every 5 pistol rounds.) I had rough zeroed the new red dot sight in the pistol bay with 15 rounds of Winchester White Box fmj, then trimmed up the zero at 50 yards in the rifle bay using 20 rounds total of Atlanta Arms 185 JHP. All good except I was still a little too excited.
Here is the spacing for the 100 yard target setup. Aim point target about 6" above the target target, for a hold over of 16" relative to a 50 yard zero (roughly)
Because I needed the trigger time and I wanted to let my rifle shooter buddy shoot without interruption, I decided to shoot 10 shot groups instead of 5 shot groups. Here is the first 10 shot 100 yard target.
Two comments on this target. The first is that one shot was high, and one was left. Pretty sure I released the hammer with the dot a little left on one of the 10. The other one had to be high, I thought it had gone through the x ring on the aiming target, but that really doesn't look like a bullet hole. I was releasing the slide using the slide lock instead of slingshotting the slide. The Kart barrel is very tight and I think the barrel just wasn't perfectly locked up from a slide release. The other thing is that the windage was still off one click. Other than those two things, this is a really good target at 100, as in...almost as good as a CGW CZ 97B"E", which is my standard for .45 pistol accuracy.
For the next target, I slingshot chambered the first round of two magazines and I moved the red dot one click right. And I tried to ignore the other folks that were showing up and wanted my lane. Here is the result for my last 10 shots:
I knew when the hammer dropped that I had one shot low left. I didn't call the one to the right. But no real flyers from incomplete lock up. The 8 "good" shots make a 3-1/2" group. I can live with that.
So, the sight is tight, the barrel is excellent, the barrel fit seems to be OK for an amateur barrel fitter-upper. I may put in a stouter recoil spring just to help get a consistent lock up while the new parts seat in.
So, not a bad day at the range, even if I didn't fire one CZ. I got in some pistol-from-a-wrist-rest practice and got out of the house for a couple of hours on a beautiful day in central Texas. I'll take a look at the barrel with the borescope before I clean it. Maybe.
This is fun. This isn't easy.
Joe