Thread: Good Progress With My Subsonic Mission

I fitted a GCL compact 4 x 32 scope to the Bergara (thanks to Gonetropo). I was surprised and delighted to find that the open sights do not appear in the image I see through the scope. This scope has lower ring mounts than my previous scope, and I had to file a wee bit off the top of the knobs at the front of my Picatinny rail to allow the scope to fit. I took it out in some rather windy conditions today to sight it in. I bore sighted it before I went out. I found that the shots were pretty right horizontally (windage), but I had to crank it up about 30 clicks to get the right elevation. I was pleased to get groups of under 2 inches at my range of sixty yards. I'm content with this for now seeing I was shooting from a sitting position using my crude shooting sticks for support... and considering the wind.

The picture below shows the rifle with the new sight. You can see some paper tubes I've made to stop the cartridges getting damaged and dirty as I carry them about. The lead bullets are quite soft. The idea is to carry maybe three cartridges in a pouch with the twisted end of the paper tied to the pouch so that I can quickly grab a cartridge if I need another shot.

As artists or movie critics might say, the rope sling is 'homage' to my humble upbringing.