I sold my boat anchor Desert Eagle 44 mag, my wife commented how she liked the R25, its in .308 so sure, what the heck. I ordered a Eotech 512 in Mossy Oak as well, pretty close but not identical, looks pretty neat.
I took the rifle home and did the "why the hell do they put that oil in there" cleaning. Upon a hurry up job, I did not take the actual bolt/piston system out, I just cleaned around it. Bore scoped with ye ole eye method and we left the next morning after dropping the kids off for school.
We started shooting at 100 yards, which was amazingly fun, UMC 150 gr fed fantastic, I had some extra Hornady 150gr SST, that I used to use in my bolts. Boy, it hated that ammo, big time. Went to Black Hills 168 (my bolt gun ammo) and it was back to chugging like an AK.
When I got home, even being 118 degrees I had to clean it and see, well, that bolt group inside looked like it was douched with axle grease. Lesson learned.
The rifle is very accurate, the butt stock needs some trimming, the edges are quite sharp and my shoulder (as well as the wife which she was not happy about) have marks to prove it.
I would most definitely use this weapon hunting, its light, that eotech is pretty damn cool, and for quick targets it would be fantastic. Like rabbits, coyotes and such. I shot at stuff at 200 yards, was close enough to hit a kill zone easy.
The 512 does not have NV capability, but guess what? I don't need NV capability. With that said, the reticle is NOT what I was expecting, it is neat but weird at the same time, I think it will just take some getting used to. I thought it was going to be like the sight on my wife's PS 90, and it is a series of LEDs if you will making the reticle.
Thanks to this purchase though, I really would like a DPMS build to start, going to try to talk the wife into that for Christmas... Wish me luck.
I took the rifle home and did the "why the hell do they put that oil in there" cleaning. Upon a hurry up job, I did not take the actual bolt/piston system out, I just cleaned around it. Bore scoped with ye ole eye method and we left the next morning after dropping the kids off for school.
We started shooting at 100 yards, which was amazingly fun, UMC 150 gr fed fantastic, I had some extra Hornady 150gr SST, that I used to use in my bolts. Boy, it hated that ammo, big time. Went to Black Hills 168 (my bolt gun ammo) and it was back to chugging like an AK.
When I got home, even being 118 degrees I had to clean it and see, well, that bolt group inside looked like it was douched with axle grease. Lesson learned.
The rifle is very accurate, the butt stock needs some trimming, the edges are quite sharp and my shoulder (as well as the wife which she was not happy about) have marks to prove it.
I would most definitely use this weapon hunting, its light, that eotech is pretty damn cool, and for quick targets it would be fantastic. Like rabbits, coyotes and such. I shot at stuff at 200 yards, was close enough to hit a kill zone easy.
The 512 does not have NV capability, but guess what? I don't need NV capability. With that said, the reticle is NOT what I was expecting, it is neat but weird at the same time, I think it will just take some getting used to. I thought it was going to be like the sight on my wife's PS 90, and it is a series of LEDs if you will making the reticle.
Thanks to this purchase though, I really would like a DPMS build to start, going to try to talk the wife into that for Christmas... Wish me luck.
