Golden Tiger....or "How I learned to love Iraqi Trashcans"

Jeremy2171

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I built a Tabuk DMR clone many years back and basically got it close to zero and never messed with. In that time I found out the engraver who welded up the original S-F markings and engraved Iraqi markings also warped the receiver in the process. So the front (trunnion forward) has a slight tweak towards the right. Not enough to notice with irons but really noticeable in the scope as the whole reticle wound up over on the right side and slightly low.

Was going to run some handloads through it but never got around to it.... so heading out to shoot some today I saw some Golden Tiger that I got in a deal and never really shot as I have a bunch of Wolf I use for AK type blasting..

I says to myself...lets give this stuff a try... see if it's all the hype...

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At 100 yds..... three rounds on right are my first shots in many years with this...

Made some scope adjustments...found out 1 click windage is ~ 3.5 MOA then started another group...then I got doubles.... tried again..another double... turns out my RSA trigger needs some tweaking... so I single loaded the seven rounds in that group...ignore that low shot..it was one of the doubles..
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Three round sighter was a hair under 1.5 MOA... large groups is ~2 MOA.

I think I will reserve Golden Tiger for the Tabuk....this is some good shooting stuff!
 
Yeah, I've always been very pleased with Golden Tiger.
 
Great looking rifle, and nice shooting, too. I wonder how the newest batches of GT (which have had a few reports of problems) would stack up against the older stuff.

On a side note, what kind of scope mount is that?
 
It's a Yugo ON-M99 scope made and marked for Iraq..cammed for x39 round.
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