- Location
- Virden, MB
So I keep on seeing lots of people ask how the Norc CQ-a looks on paper. I tested mine extensively with everything from 55g Fed FMJ, 69g Sierra Match, 55g Sierra Blitz, 55g Amax and finally 70g Berger VLD.
I have a some benchrest and Fclass style experience and consider myself a competative shooter. I still have a pile to learn but from my experience I will say that this rifle will shoot next to most bolt rifles with quality ammo. I have a pics from my last outing with 3 targets. I seemed to produce a flyer each time but I can blame that on the conditions and the longer trigger pull. But these 3 targets were one after another. No picking magic groups from my pile.These were shot with the 70g Bergers with 26.5g varget. I found that these worked like little miracle pills in this gun. I was using wind flags due to the intermittent wins this day but none the less was very impressed.
These groups were shot of a bench with a bipod and rear shooting bag. Some human error should be factored in but this should give people an idea of the accuracy.
The rings on these targets are spaced 1 inch apart.
Lots of holes on this page but I was playing with different loads plus sighting in on it. The 5 next to the black mark are the group. Last shot was outside the group and I pulled a bad one last shot as I was waiting for the condition to come back and when it did I pulled the trigger poorly trying to make the shot before the condition left again. Oh well, the 4 shots before that were good.
Then 200 yards
300 yards
Anyways, I had mediocre accuracy with mediocre bullets and good accuracy with match bullets. Don't expect the white box Winchester or American Eagle stuff to come out this well. Worst I was getting with regular ammo was still within 1 1/2 Moa at 100. 300 yards was more like 3 MOA though. I really think this rifle has a lot of potential. I would think if the conditions were better this day I could have seen better groups, but yo hardly get that in the real world.
Anyways my thoughts with this rifle as far as accuracy is concerned is that it will shoot well if you feed it well. I feed mine those 55g Fed FMJs mostly as just wanna shoot it cheap. If I have a hankering to shoot little groups this rifle can do it too.
I have a some benchrest and Fclass style experience and consider myself a competative shooter. I still have a pile to learn but from my experience I will say that this rifle will shoot next to most bolt rifles with quality ammo. I have a pics from my last outing with 3 targets. I seemed to produce a flyer each time but I can blame that on the conditions and the longer trigger pull. But these 3 targets were one after another. No picking magic groups from my pile.These were shot with the 70g Bergers with 26.5g varget. I found that these worked like little miracle pills in this gun. I was using wind flags due to the intermittent wins this day but none the less was very impressed.
These groups were shot of a bench with a bipod and rear shooting bag. Some human error should be factored in but this should give people an idea of the accuracy.
The rings on these targets are spaced 1 inch apart.
Lots of holes on this page but I was playing with different loads plus sighting in on it. The 5 next to the black mark are the group. Last shot was outside the group and I pulled a bad one last shot as I was waiting for the condition to come back and when it did I pulled the trigger poorly trying to make the shot before the condition left again. Oh well, the 4 shots before that were good.
Then 200 yards
300 yards
Anyways, I had mediocre accuracy with mediocre bullets and good accuracy with match bullets. Don't expect the white box Winchester or American Eagle stuff to come out this well. Worst I was getting with regular ammo was still within 1 1/2 Moa at 100. 300 yards was more like 3 MOA though. I really think this rifle has a lot of potential. I would think if the conditions were better this day I could have seen better groups, but yo hardly get that in the real world.
Anyways my thoughts with this rifle as far as accuracy is concerned is that it will shoot well if you feed it well. I feed mine those 55g Fed FMJs mostly as just wanna shoot it cheap. If I have a hankering to shoot little groups this rifle can do it too.
