Re: New Sage EBR Scout
I had one in Iraq on my first deployment Adobt a sniper (now Americansnipers.org supplied the stocks (thank God for Americansnipers and their support of the troops). <They have filled a lot of needs for a lot of soldiers that the Army overlooks or doesn't have the ability to respond rapidly enough to.
I could get it to put 2 rounds in one hole, 3 under 1MOA, but the barrel being M14 was so thin that the effect of heating was anything more than 3 rounds seemed to begin to open dispersion to 2MOA.
At 20 rounds relatively quickly, accuracy was a total crap shoot, and after letting the barrel cool, you'd stack two rounds again.
Of course it is a rack grade service rifle base gun, with a chrome lined bore, so the expectation of sniper rifle accuracy is a little overzealous.
I had my gas cylinder shimmed, the flash hider was checked for alignment, the trigger group slicked, a badger Ordinance NM operating rod guide, buffertech buffer installed. Add the Sage stock and you have a heavy albeit accuracy optimized M14.
The original equipment plastic stock was really crap.
