- Location
- Aaaaaadmontin AB
Attaboy, Mike!
As the boys said there are two absolutely critical factors here: your optics and your rest. May I make a suggestion? Hold off on your review until you can beg, borrow or steal some good high magnification optics - the higher, the better.
The second is your rest. These fuggin Tavors are just wonderful to shoot and carry and use offhand, but they are bears to benchrest properly. You will need custom bags but that isn't a big deal. Find your wife's best pair of jeans, cut the legs out of them and sew them up into bags filled with lead shot! Make the front bag extra tall so that the 'forearm' of the Tavor can rest on it and still keep the handguard off the bench. Make the shorter rear bag just tall enough to level the rifle and you can make elevation changes by squeezing the rear bag. You want to be able to snuggle right up to the rifle, and basically have the rifle resting on target while you slowly work through the trigger squeeze. Be prepared to run like hell when your old lady finds out what you did to her best pair of jeans. Take the Tavor with you so the old lady can't shoot you with it while you make your escape - the cops WILL rule it a justifiable homicide if you are too slow!
This is my set up - one brand-spankin-new Tavor fresh out of the bag, a Zeiss conquest 3x9 scope, and the bags made from pantl egs and filled with bird shot.
That rig works well with sporter rifles but totally sucks for the Tavor. We are lucky, we have concrete shooting benches at our club. Nevertheless, the experts and industry guru's are saying that the Tavor is pretty much a 2~3 MOA rifle and my groups so far have averaged just a smidge over 2" inches. A few wankers on the other thread said the Tavor is a piece of junk on par with a $150.00 Chicom SKS; such statements make me want to vomit with rage!
As the boys said there are two absolutely critical factors here: your optics and your rest. May I make a suggestion? Hold off on your review until you can beg, borrow or steal some good high magnification optics - the higher, the better.
The second is your rest. These fuggin Tavors are just wonderful to shoot and carry and use offhand, but they are bears to benchrest properly. You will need custom bags but that isn't a big deal. Find your wife's best pair of jeans, cut the legs out of them and sew them up into bags filled with lead shot! Make the front bag extra tall so that the 'forearm' of the Tavor can rest on it and still keep the handguard off the bench. Make the shorter rear bag just tall enough to level the rifle and you can make elevation changes by squeezing the rear bag. You want to be able to snuggle right up to the rifle, and basically have the rifle resting on target while you slowly work through the trigger squeeze. Be prepared to run like hell when your old lady finds out what you did to her best pair of jeans. Take the Tavor with you so the old lady can't shoot you with it while you make your escape - the cops WILL rule it a justifiable homicide if you are too slow!
This is my set up - one brand-spankin-new Tavor fresh out of the bag, a Zeiss conquest 3x9 scope, and the bags made from pantl egs and filled with bird shot.
That rig works well with sporter rifles but totally sucks for the Tavor. We are lucky, we have concrete shooting benches at our club. Nevertheless, the experts and industry guru's are saying that the Tavor is pretty much a 2~3 MOA rifle and my groups so far have averaged just a smidge over 2" inches. A few wankers on the other thread said the Tavor is a piece of junk on par with a $150.00 Chicom SKS; such statements make me want to vomit with rage!
