The magwell of my SARB-15 with a 10-round magazine inserted. Only a very small amount of the magazine is visible.

Made only one purchase at a local gun show today; an adorable 10-round magazine. Very low profile for my bullpup. I passed on the beefy 60 round double-stack magazine. It seemed a little too performative and more expensive than two 30-round mags.
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There image is of a shooting target, a grid to help with sighting adjustments, a half inch black dot at the center, a 1 inch concentric green dot, a 2 inch red dot and a 5 inch black ring. These color contracts are designed for visibility at range. The grouping is five round at the 5-oclock position, measured by the Range Buddy software at 0.97" and 1.36" low. According to several ballistics calculators, this is almost precisely where it should be for the rifle to be zeroed at 100 and 200 yards. Not pictured here, when I took it out to the 100 yard range, it was pretty much centered but, perhaps because it was pouring down rain, the group had opened up, more so than one would expect for simply increasing the range. #sarb15 #firearms #shootingsports #rangeday #bullpup

Range Day started pretty well. After zeroing my SARB-15 (finally) at 50 yards, took it out to 100. Just as it started pouring rain. Was shooting where I wanted it to but sloppy grouping. Wasn't being productive so I called it an early day.
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The image is of a shooting bench at a local range. On the bench is an old army blanket (my grandfather's from literally the Second World War). On that is a few sandbags with my SARB-15 rifle on top. There are several magazines, a box of ammo, a notepad, and a spotting scope on a tripod.

This is a target consisting of a grid scaled at 2 MOA (minutes of angle) at 50 yards. A 6 inch black ring, a 2 inch red dot and a 1 inch green dot. There is a group of 5 holes at about the 6 o'clock position. There is a Range Buddy caption indicating the group size of 1.08", point of impact 0.06" to the right and 1.21" low.

A simple target consisting of a 4" black dot. The caption of the target reads 50m as this is the target used for the Cabin Fever Challenge at the 50m or 50 yard range. However, I shot at this target at 100 yards because I wanted a smaller dot for better precision. There is a label added detailing the 5 hits on the target as a 2.96" group, 0.66" to the left and 9.96" high. Ideally, the group should be exactly centered at this range.

This is an 8" black dot Cabin Fever Challenge target which is designed for use at 100 yards but I shot at it at a 200 yard range because I wanted a smaller bullseye for greater precision. I could not see the holes through my spotting scope so instead of firing 5 rounds and then reassessing, as I had done with the targets at 100 and 50 yards, I fired 20 rounds. The Range Buddy program has calculated the group as being 9.16" in diameter, 0.92" left, and 1.79" high. My conclusion from this and previous targets is that I am just a little bit high. Perhaps if I bring the scope down a click or two I will have it exactly where I want it to be. However, I am not enough of a consistent shot to be confidant in that. I should like to borrow a Lead Sled, a heavy mount for the gun to hold it very stable, so that I can be as precise as possible. Without that, though, I'll probably just bring it down a click and declare it good enough, after which I will move on from bench shooting to marksmanship drills, building my skills for the test of the Cabin Fever Challenge in a few months.

Range Day. The math says that I should be about an inch and a half low at 50 yards, zero at 100 yards and also at 200 yards. I'm a little high at all ranges. Maybe bring it down a 1/2 MOA click or two then move on to Cabin Fever Challenge drills.
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Range day without the sandbags has me thinking that, while the Hera CQR foregrip is cyberpunk and cool, I may be better off without it. Many decades of shooting has me naturally wanting a more traditional rifle hold.
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The top rail of my SARB-15 bullpup platform with two optics. The first is a Vortex Optics Spitfire 1x Prism Scope. After that is a Monstrum Ghost G3 3X Micro Magnifier with Flip-to-Side Mount. The guidance is to have the magnifier first but this terribly distorted the reticle so I put the magnifier after the prism. In this way, the illuminated circle and dot will remain the same size whether magnified or not. I am concerned that having the magnifier after might add some distortion that affects accuracy at range. I will need to take it to the range and re-zero it and test. The alternative becomes getting a single 3x prism. How will that work for me when I'm doing CQB at close range? I'll have to test that at the range, too.

The advice is to buy optics for the 80% that you shoot. However, the 1x prism isn't good enough for my eyes to do the other 20% at range so I added a 3x magnifier. Not sure I'm liking the setup. Will need to take it to the range to evaluate.
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Bullpup range day over the weekend and I am half way through breaking in my new rifle.

Details at my blog dime-novel-hero.dreamwidth.org/2025/11/10/

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