I adjusted it to about 3/4" from the shortest setting and within 5 shots, it is back to it's shortest position.
The mechanism that holds the butt pad for length of pull fails under recoil. I am not easy on a bolt gun and run them hard and fast. The magazine was seated properly and I'm 99.9% sure that I ran the bolt fully to the rear. The bolt just slid over the top of the next cartridge. I probably put 300 rounds through the rifle in the first 2 days of the class and had 5 failures to strip a round from the magazine. This was true of the P-mags and the factory original mag. The mags often required excessive force to get properly seated. I would punch it with the tip of my trigger finger. The mag release is oddly placed and makes rapid changes a bit difficult. My support hand fingers can still feel where it was rubbing in the holes during recoil. Same is true of the M-Lok holes in the forend. Then, you discover that those grooves create a callous on your finger and thumb. The bolt knob seems well designed until you cycle it hard and fast a couple hundred times. For you long range shooters reading this, remember that this is slung prone. It was just a struggle to shoot from prone. I never felt like my face was correctly behind the scope and perhaps higher rings would help that. I got a big and painful bruise on the top of my shoulder that still hurts like hell a few days later. It is overall uncomfortable to shoot from prone. A bipod would fix this of course but with a weight and bulk and speed penalty.
Sitting, kneeling and the rest were fine, but prone was not. The mag well prevents my arm from getting into the correct position for a really stable prone position. That means no skeletal support and no natural point of aim. When shooting from prone, I can't get my support hand directly under the rifle unless I extend my arm way out on the forend. I also discovered that I needed the stock extended by 3/4" when shooting from prone and that was easy to accomplish but as you'll see below, this didn't work out as well as hoped. The butt pad can be canted to correct this which allowed me to keep it level without any muscle tension from my firing hand. I had to put pressure with my firing hand to correct it which isn't good. First, I discovered that in prone, the gun wanted to tip to the left. The adjustable stock was nice in two ways. That was very nice, especially in a few of the Rolling Thunder drills. I bought 3 ten round magazines and 3 extra 5 round mags which made my total loaded capacity 50 rounds. It takes a little getting used to but works very well. I learned that running the bolt is much faster if I leave my thumb on the right side of the grip. There is no clunk when the striker moves.īolt lift is smooth and easy. It is 2 stage and breaks clean and crisp at 2.25 pounds with no creep and seems to have a very short lock time. I added a couple of QD mounts and the thing weighs an ounce shy of 9 pounds empty. I put a Sig BDX 2.5-8X scope on it which weighs a bit more than I'd like and the sling I put on it is a little heavy (Andy's Leather Ching Sling in 1.25" width because I won it. The case is only 29" long and it doesn't look like a rifle case. I chose this rifle for a multitude of reasons but high on the list was the folding stock which means I can carry it in a VERY compact case. The guns are run hard and any weakness will manifest itself in short order. His training class is going to show you the good, the bad and the ugly of your equipment.
BEST MUZZLE BRAKE FOR SIG CROSS HOW TO
Randy teaches students how to run a bolt gun in a fight. I wanted something that could fill a similar role, but would have some unique features to justify having something different. I purchased the Cross as a back-up to my Steyr Scout. It is similar in many ways to a scout rifle, but doesn't follow the dogma and definitions of a true scout, and fills largely the same role. The idea is to be able to have one rifle that will handle just about any job. If you're unfamiliar with the concept of the practical rifle, you really should look into it. I took my new Sig Cross to a Randy Cain Practical Rifle class over the weekend.
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