I had to go to the range to battle sight a VZ58 and SP1 clone I built, so I thought I would take the carbines, too. Weather was so miserable, though, I just did a very wet 25 yard battle sight check. I put up some carbine 25 yard test targets up despite the wind and freezing drizzle. The CMPicon Inland I wanted to check zero since I shifted it to a pot belly and put late features (slide, trigger group, bolt, etc,.) on it. It was dead on still, and the zero had not changed. No adjustment was necessary. The soggy groups looked like the ones I have posted before.

The Saginaw barreled receiver I built up surprised me a little. I expected it to be a good shooter because the ME is around 1.5. What I got was a 1" five shot group, despite the repro flip and Type I barrel band! I drifted the rear sight to center the group on the target, but it was shooting low. I fixed that by replacing the front sight with one I had that was trimmed about 1/32" to 1/16". Great shooter now. The ejection pattern of the Saginaw was odd, though. Good ejection, but over my head at 6 o'clock and on the ground behind me! Go Figure. No pictures because of the rain. I also did not shoot past 25, because you could not see 100 yard targets through the drizzle and gloom.
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