AK 103 + Primary Arms 2x Prism [Glx] to 500yds: Practical Accuracy (Henry's "Middle East" loadout)

This episode was brought to you by Slate Black Industries. For M-LOK grips and accessories, visit slateblackindustries.com All right, 103 time. A 103 with the 2x. Yeah. Sort of a new take on an older concept. 150. Good hit. All right, 200. Fire when ready. Hit. Can you see where they're hitting? It looked like it was good. Okay, ready? Yeah. Fire when ready. Hit. Good hit. I believe 300 is using the Chevron as sort of a hat. 76239 just isn't friendly with wind. Nope. So we're going what, left edge? Eh, left edge maybe plus more. Just let's see, let's go left edge, see if there's a hit or not. All right. Good, left edge. Hit. Right half of the target. Okay, I'll punch it in a little more. Favor left. Hit. Right side of the target. Okay, yeah, that's crazy. We're seeing so much more wind drift than 556. I'd give it a little bit more. On elevation? Both. Yes. Hit. Good center punch. Just that one was off the left side. Hit. Left side. 400. Those last two shots, you're missing and you're hit, where both hits impacts were on the left half and then off the left side of the target. Okay. So at 400, you might try the same holds you just used to secure those impacts. Okay, and I'm going to use a 400 dot for this one. Of course. Ready? Fire when ready. Just off the right edge. Impact. Okay. Neutralized. All right. Those last two shots were good on the windage. All right, I'm on a 450. Just short, good windage. Just off the right edge. 95% sure that was an impact. Impact. All right. Do I need another one? I mean, I am pretty darn sure that first one was a hit. Okay. I mean, I felt like it hit to me. Yeah. 500. Fire when ready. Six o'clock by about half a target. Three o'clock. Impact. Good center hit. Just right of center. That was at eight o'clock. I think that hit the bar. Try again. Yeah. Impact. All right. You shot those 500 pretty darn quick there. I did. I didn't want the wind to shift. People always say, you know, like what if you had one rifle, one setup you would bring to whatever scenario. This is actually my Middle Eastern. If I had no supply drops, this would be my ideal setup for the Middle East. Talk us through why. Ammunition. Magazines. Plenty available. You could use those steel magazines. The 2x optic is an excellent combat, combat effective optic because when you're in the field, yes, I could use iron sights. No problem. But it's slower. It's, it's a lot harder to make the adjustments. I would say one to 350 yards or 300 meters. This is no issue as far as a 2x. Yeah. You have a rugged optic that a rugged prism optic that could take a lot of abuse. And basically it's a very low maintenance platform that uses a lot of the, the local resources. On top of that, comparing this to the AKM or type 56s, you know, the standard 76239s. We're talking about a platform that has less recoil because of things like the muzzle brake and the way, just the way it's set up. If you unhook this, you could also fold the stock. So, I mean, it is a very attractive package to take into places that's, let's say 76239 focused. Yeah, definitely. I mean, is it the ultimate? No. I mean, there's, there's always trade-offs when you put a package together. However, on the 762 platform, we must've shot less than the other ones. It was sub 30, right? I don't know. But I think the biggest thing is in today's wind, it was a lot easier to shoot than irons because I was able to hold on target. I was able to observe the target a lot easier than using irons. And if you are using this in a very practical sense, you don't have the luxury of bumping up the sights up and down to get that graduated, that graduated hit. That's why they have the peace setting on your sights for the battle setting. Yeah. So I think, I think that one of the things that we may be semi-responsible for here on the show is we've shot so many of these firearms with iron sights to demonstrate that they are capable with their basic sighting systems of hitting out to these ranges. Right. That there, there's a, at least a subset of the viewership that has a perception that it means that you don't need an optic or you shouldn't use an optic or something along those lines. Yeah, in a very practical sense, you want to have a system that can quickly range your target, estimate the, estimate the, the drop and then be able to observe the effects. Right. I specifically wanted to put this rifle right here because this is a really similar concept that was in the Soviet Union back in the day in the seventies and eighties, the Kashtan. It's a 2.8 X optic that has a somewhat of a bullet drop compensated reticle on it. And so I kind of feel like this is a new take on an old concept that I'm not sure if they, I'm fairly certain they didn't talk to each other but they came up with a very similar solution to a similar problem. Yeah. Even so far as the chevrons, which are, you see throughout this optic with the aiming point that is hyper refined. So when people are talking about, oh, seven, six, two, three, nine, it's a really good cartridge. Yes, I do think it's a really good cartridge but it has its limitations. Wind being one of those major... That's gotta be one of the biggest ones, right? Yeah. So we didn't expect it to drift so much, but it did. Yeah. And when basically we did a simple dope right before we shot and Josh was like, why the hell are you missing today, dude? And I was thinking, well, why the hell am I missing today, dude? And so we looked at it a little bit and we realized, wow, we have to hold off target a lot more. Yeah. Because we just finished shooting the Frenchie over there. And barely having to hold a half target off. Yeah. So deceptive. It's deceptive when you see how much wind impacts different projectiles. Yeah. You know, a lot of times people don't understand when they're watching the video, especially if they're new viewers, they come in and some of the comments you get all the time are like, oh man, you're shooting way too fast. You're missing a lot. And it's like, well, what you're not seeing is that we're fast forwarding the time between shots so that you're not sitting here waiting for us to take the shots. Yeah. For those who may or may not be familiar, when you're shooting in wind, the wind is not always consistent. If it's consistent, it's easy. You find the call and then you have a consistent factor, but that's almost never the case. Unlike gravity, where you have a consistent factor that you can always hold the same above a target, assuming environmental factors are the same. Yeah. On this show, I've shot a 7.62-54 rim out to one kilometer with iron sights. Yeah. I'm confident that when I was pulling the Kalashnikov trigger, that I wasn't moving the rifle itself. Not to a point that it would blow it off target. What I was more focused on at that point was that I'm adhering to the wind call that Josh was giving me and making sure that I was making those corrections before the wind shifted. That was a priority to me because this cartridge gets shifted so easily in the wind. So what is that print on paper for you? About two and a half to three-ish inches? Somewhere between three and a half or so. So from two and a half to three and a half inches. Depending on ammunition, sure. Right, okay. So what we're talking about though, then, is that if we just call it three to be safe, when you go out to 500 yards, there's a 15-inch spread. Which is larger than the size of the gun. Right, so that is the target size. So when Henry's shooting at it, the point of aim may be very good. It may be adhering to the call of the wind, but the deviation in the projectile based purely upon what the gun can do is, that's another thing completely. I would say this is a pretty cool modern take on what I would say could very well become a line of Kalashnikov optics. Yeah. So, well, sweet. Good run. Do you enjoy arguing with other viewers on the internet on which rifle performs better on practical accuracy? Well, we have a solution for you. Go to our Patreon page and scroll down. You'll find the Practical Accuracy Scoreboard where we have ranked and compiled all the data of all the firearms we have tested on the Practical Accuracy course. Furthermore, it's already separated into the different categories, so you can go back to your argument as quickly as possible. And whether you decide to support us via Patreon, subscription, or just a normal viewer, we thank you. Bill Nye One. One pack. Ring, ring.