Well, I put the new upper thru its paces today. only had twenty round with me. Good thing- Id have shot all I brought.
Bout all I can say is I wish Id had one years ago.
Accuracy is more than acceptable right now. Resting my elbo on the hood of my truck I was able to place 8 rounds in about a 1.5" group, about 1 inch high. Didnt have to touch the knobs on the scope at all. What kinda luck is that?
the other twelve rounds were used to supress a bowling pin and water jug uprising- the fact that Im writing this and the pins and jugs are not should speak for itself.
Seriously though- I "HAD" 7 pristine pins. I know have 7 pins with either rather large pieces missing, or are no longer capable of being called pins. The Water jugs? To short lived. Ill have to get a bunch for the next range trip. BigTIme fun.
I also took my old school A2 upper with me and shot a couple hundred rounds, but that seemed real soft batch after shooting the 450.
Only bad part of the day is I found out that no, you cannot use 45 acp and 284 win dies to make suitable cartridges. But can you really call any tinkering in the reloading room bad?????
Today gets a big nasty smiley face.