New BBC arrived and shot.
Posted: Thu Dec 06, 2018 12:51 am
I received my new BBB in .357. I am just amazed by this carbine. It’s just beautiful. I want to hang it on the wall, it’s art.
It arrived in good shape and it was well boxed up in a larger box, so the Henry box was not beat up.
It functions perfectly. With the first round the stock sights were dead nuts on. I already had a box of 130gr .38 flat nose ball and fired all 50 without a hiccup. (I cycle the lever smartly, don’t pause midway in the stroke, learned that from the .22.) The 158gr .357 went fine. As with the .22, when cycling the action, the trigger, I found myself not even thinking about it, it’s so natural and smooth. You can just 100% focus on your target, the rifle follows your lead.
I have vision issues and the iron sights just won’t work well for me off the bench at this time. I have no central vision in my right eye, and astigmatism and far-sighted in my left; hope to get some better corrective glasses soon. Did not want to scope it. What to do. I have HiViz sights on the .22 but they are often blurry. I have Acog and Eotech already, I have a Sig Romeo on my 10-22, but due to my astigmatism the dot looks like a semi-colon so I wanted to try something different.
I was intrigued by the SeeAll sight, the new version, so I tried it out on the BB Carbine and zeroed it easily and it works great. For me at least. (Unlike others perhaps, I had an interest in making it work.) I practiced with the SeeAll in the house and yard for a several hours over a few days, holding it my hand as like a pistol, just picking up the aiming point over and over. It’s a snap. Extremely easy to use and acquire targets. You just sweep into your target from below or slightly at an angle, not from top down. I find it intuitive and actually easier to shoot with than it appears from some of the videos. IMO.
So immediately after getting it zeroed, I was hitting cans dead center off hand at 25 yards and getting decent groups from the bench. It is actually hard to miss cans and clays with the thing because you know where the POI will be in real time, as with a red dot. Very interesting. Works for my vision as is. I’m sure I’ll improve.
Sorry didn’t mean to drone on about a sight, the BBB is just awesome it’s a joy to be able to shoot and shift and shoot, working the lever while scanning for the next target, what a blast. Lever guns are so cool. I’ve kinda evolved from semi’s to bolts to levers, no doubt for me what I like best now. Being able to hit a target without corrective glasses is a bonus!
So overall I’m very pleased and ready to get back to the range soonest!
Thanks to all the posts and information on this forum that pushed me just go ahead and grub holta this sweet little carbine. I’m bit!
Btw, the group below, that’s with the SeeAll.
It arrived in good shape and it was well boxed up in a larger box, so the Henry box was not beat up.
It functions perfectly. With the first round the stock sights were dead nuts on. I already had a box of 130gr .38 flat nose ball and fired all 50 without a hiccup. (I cycle the lever smartly, don’t pause midway in the stroke, learned that from the .22.) The 158gr .357 went fine. As with the .22, when cycling the action, the trigger, I found myself not even thinking about it, it’s so natural and smooth. You can just 100% focus on your target, the rifle follows your lead.
I have vision issues and the iron sights just won’t work well for me off the bench at this time. I have no central vision in my right eye, and astigmatism and far-sighted in my left; hope to get some better corrective glasses soon. Did not want to scope it. What to do. I have HiViz sights on the .22 but they are often blurry. I have Acog and Eotech already, I have a Sig Romeo on my 10-22, but due to my astigmatism the dot looks like a semi-colon so I wanted to try something different.
I was intrigued by the SeeAll sight, the new version, so I tried it out on the BB Carbine and zeroed it easily and it works great. For me at least. (Unlike others perhaps, I had an interest in making it work.) I practiced with the SeeAll in the house and yard for a several hours over a few days, holding it my hand as like a pistol, just picking up the aiming point over and over. It’s a snap. Extremely easy to use and acquire targets. You just sweep into your target from below or slightly at an angle, not from top down. I find it intuitive and actually easier to shoot with than it appears from some of the videos. IMO.
So immediately after getting it zeroed, I was hitting cans dead center off hand at 25 yards and getting decent groups from the bench. It is actually hard to miss cans and clays with the thing because you know where the POI will be in real time, as with a red dot. Very interesting. Works for my vision as is. I’m sure I’ll improve.
Sorry didn’t mean to drone on about a sight, the BBB is just awesome it’s a joy to be able to shoot and shift and shoot, working the lever while scanning for the next target, what a blast. Lever guns are so cool. I’ve kinda evolved from semi’s to bolts to levers, no doubt for me what I like best now. Being able to hit a target without corrective glasses is a bonus!
So overall I’m very pleased and ready to get back to the range soonest!
Thanks to all the posts and information on this forum that pushed me just go ahead and grub holta this sweet little carbine. I’m bit!
Btw, the group below, that’s with the SeeAll.
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