A couple of weeks ago I bought a Nikon P-223 3×32 with the BDC Carbine reticle and a Burris AR-PEPR Quick Detach mount. I’d read some good reviews for both, and they both happened to be on sale, so I went ahead and got them. By the way, some sites list the P-223 as having 1/4 MOA target turrets. They’re not. They’re 1/2 MOA.
My plan was to put this combo on the FDE Magpul Fanboy AR (I’ve put an FDE MBUS on that since those pictures were taken).
Two points: They don’t work together, and I’ve decided I’m not a huge fan of the P-223. Let’s explore why.
Here’s a stock photo of the Burris PEPR:
Here’s a stock photo of the Nikon P-223:
And here’s what they look like when you put them together:
I see a problem developingAnd there it is
Well, $%^&. That PEPR is solid, though. I am really impressed by it.
Okay. So now what? Well, regular readers will remember that I’ve got an M&P15-22 with a scope on it. That scope is mounted with some $20 QD rings. So it’s time to play musical gun parts.
You have GOT to be kidding me…
If you’ll notice, the scope is as far forward as possible, but the rings aren’t tall enough for the scope to clear the MBUS. So I’ve taken the MBUS off and now I don’t have backup sights on that rifle (and also it’s not sighted in).
So, now that the saga of actually getting it mounted to the gun is over, I was ready to “play” with it.
Now, I’ve heard before that if you put a magnified optic on an AR with a front sight post, the front sight will “disappear” when looking through the scope. I’m pretty sure that I’ve even seen this before with one of oddball’s ARs.
Apparently, the 3x magnification that this scope has is not quite enough. It’s really hard to get a good picture of what I actually see due to eye relief and the size of the lens on my camera, but it’s a lot like this:
Basically, there’s just enough of a ghost for the front sight to make it really annoying and distracting. The BDC Reticle is also a little bit useless for me, since it requires zeroing at 200 yards with 55gr polymer tipped ammo, and the hashes are for 400 and 600 yards. Nikon has a webapp that allows you to recalculate the hashes and do some other stuff, but using Federal XM855 and a 100 yard zero makes the ‘s hashes fall at 325, 513, and 600. The app is kinda neat, but its gimmicky. They have an iPhone app, but no Android version. They also don’t offer custom turrets for the P-223.
So I’m not really sure how this is going to end. I have been toying with completely reconfiguring and repurposing the 12 pound AR and putting this scope on that. I’ve also thought that since I now have two QD scopes maybe I should set them both up with the M&P15-22 and swap them out when I want to play Tactical Tommy and use the 22 as a carbine trainer. I got to play with this scope recently and I really like it, so maybe I’ll get that, too. And now I’m just rambling. 😀
Oh, so I did end up using the PEPR for my other scope. Now I have a $100 mount holding a $50 scope:
Why, yes, that is .308 on the shelves. For sale, even.
And the ammo restrictions for this chain have changed from one box per caliber, three total to two boxes per caliber. Maybe I’ll be able to buy .22 by Christmas!
The Justice Department says it is looking into the shooting death of Trayvon Martin to determine whether federal prosecutors should file criminal civil rights charges now that George Zimmerman has been acquitted in the state case.
For all of you parents of teenagers; you are no longer able to tell your children to be wary of strangers following them. The rule now is, do what ever the nice man says, or he can legally kill you.
Well, if the nice man is telling you “Please stop bashing my skull into the sidewalk” then….wait, that’s always been the rule.
There’s a one hour recess, then jury instructions, then deliberations begin for a jury that hasn’t seen their families in two weeks. Late on a Friday is when they’ll get the case, and I’ve heard that often juries just want to go home in circumstances such as these.
As I said in GBC, I can’t see how deliberations will be anything other than one camp wanting to follow the law, and the other wanting to avoid rioting. No one who has looked at the facts of this case can reasonably conclude that it was anything other than self-defense.
But if things were reasonable, the original outcome of the investigation–that George Zimmerman was attacked and responded with an appropriate level of force–would have been where it stopped.
When your web host turns off your database completely, then sends you an email asking you to troubleshoot a problem that requires you getting into the database.
Better still is when, after complaining for 24 hours that you can’t get into the database to troubleshoot, you get a snarky “oh, it was obviously this, so I fixed it for you” reply. How would I know something that was obvious if I can’t see it at all?
If I hadn’t prepaid for the rest of the year less than a week ago, I’d be switching hosts right now.
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. I’d read some good reviews for both, and they both happened to be on sale, so I went ahead and got them. By the way, some sites list the P-223 as having 1/4 MOA target turrets. They’re not. They’re 1/2 MOA.
. So it’s time to play musical gun parts.
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