Took the Sig Sauer 522 compact carbine to the range today. Nobody was there; it was quiet.
Until I started emptying magazines, that is =o)
The Sig is a real peach of a rifle. It's not a one-hole shooter, but it's not designed to be. Instead, it's a dead-reliable 22LR semi auto that will cycle any ammo you feed it, and it shoots 1" groups at 50 yards from a bench rest. Good enough for this geezer with bad eyes.
It has very little felt recoil (the aluminum upper adds mass), and multiple follow-up shots are easy to keep on target. The engineers at Sig really got the design right on this one.
I've tried several sighting options on this over time (open sights, scopes, red-dot tubes, and holo sights). I've settled on the holo sight.
It's an Ultradot Pan AV with four reticles. There's a dot, a cross hair, a crossed circle, and a dotted circle. I prefer the single 3-MOA dot. Perfect for run-n-gun, and plinking steel plates and making 'em ring. And since it sits low on the bore axis (no tall mounting rings), it works great in close and out past 150 yards.
I like big calibers too, but for real all-day fun (about 1000 rounds today), a sweet-shooting 22 is really a nice option.
Until I started emptying magazines, that is =o)
The Sig is a real peach of a rifle. It's not a one-hole shooter, but it's not designed to be. Instead, it's a dead-reliable 22LR semi auto that will cycle any ammo you feed it, and it shoots 1" groups at 50 yards from a bench rest. Good enough for this geezer with bad eyes.
It has very little felt recoil (the aluminum upper adds mass), and multiple follow-up shots are easy to keep on target. The engineers at Sig really got the design right on this one.
I've tried several sighting options on this over time (open sights, scopes, red-dot tubes, and holo sights). I've settled on the holo sight.
It's an Ultradot Pan AV with four reticles. There's a dot, a cross hair, a crossed circle, and a dotted circle. I prefer the single 3-MOA dot. Perfect for run-n-gun, and plinking steel plates and making 'em ring. And since it sits low on the bore axis (no tall mounting rings), it works great in close and out past 150 yards.
I like big calibers too, but for real all-day fun (about 1000 rounds today), a sweet-shooting 22 is really a nice option.
