I was Marine Corps back during OIF, but I'm long out now
When I was in basic, long range on iron sights was a point of pride. We were taught how to adjust both sight posts and legitimately got good with it. Now, with ACOGs distance shooting is much easier.
I didn't know Austria had such lax gun laws! I'm putting it on my list as a back up country for when the States goes socialist.
No, we don't have to prove anything to buy ammo, but you need ammo to zero and right now ammo is HARD to find.
I'm actually really interested in your opinions (I've never worked with the Austrians).
Kentucky Windage is a slang term in the US military that is used when people willfully use their sights "improperly" to compensate for something. For example, let's say you're shooting at 500 yard and you set your site to 500. But, suddenly a target pops up at 200 yards. Now, your sites sent able to properly hit so you "aim lower" or maybe instead of looking through the rear sight ring, you look above it and line up the top edge with the front sight post. But, it's not a guess, if something people generally practice.
The Marines train with the M16 at 500 yards on a man sized target. It's good at 500 so.i would imagine the Steyr can do similar.
What are the laws on reloading ammo in Austria? In the states that's a necessity for zeroing a rifle now a daus
Sorry, I guess the mechanism is fine. I meant more the reloading of a bullpup, not just the Steyr but all of them. Such a strange thing in the prone and while moving. I feel like in my limited time watching the Brits run around I always saw dudes dropping mags/missing the hole if they were moving and reloading.
But if it's what you know then yeahwhy reinvent the wheel my friend. You spend years learning a weapon then why wod you change and try a new one? I don't know much about it for sniping out at range. I'd guess 500 yards what your trying to do? Are they accurate further?
I have a 1911 Schmidt–Rubin and it's my very favorite long rifle. But ammo is not easy to come by, I have about 150 pieces of 7.5 brass and I've been told you can use .303 or .308 slugs but I've never done it