A-AAR

The After-After Action Report.

Once again guys, thanks for stopping by over the weekend and I’m glad that you enjoyed yesterday’s AAR. I’ve gotten the rifle cleaned up and scoped for your enjoyment.

Now for what I’ve decded to do to fix the problem I had on Friday: This scope that currently sits on the rifle is temprorary. I bought long time ago off a guy at the range when he couldn’t get it to sight in for $20. My guess as to his problem was that he refused to notice that the dials were marked backwards, and I was right. Once over that little hurdle, it worked perfectly and I’ve installed it temporarily on just about every scoped rifle I own until they get their permenant optics.

Jimro mentioned the IOR-Valdada 6x Super M2 scope and I must admit that I have had my eyes on that one since I started thinking about picking up an HK clone. I’ve decided that I will be getting one with the built-in .308 Bullet Drop Compensator package sometime after the first of the year. ACOGs are just too damn expensive at $950 – $1300 and their .308 options are limited to say the least (they prefer .223 rifles).

I am also going shopping for some new Iron. Sights, that is. Both Trijicon and XS Systems manufacture aftermarket nuke sights for the G3 clones. They range from $50 (for front post only Trijicons) to $120 (front post and rear ghost rings from XS). Worth checking out.

The reason for this decision is that now that I look at it more closely I can swear I can see the front post leaning a bit to the left. I’d show you a picture of it, but I’m not a good enough of a photog to get a shot you can see. We’ll replace the front first and see what that does. Afterwards, we’ll try the rears. And actually, the XS folks say that their rear sights are both finger adjustable for windage and elevation, so maybe we’ll skip waiting if I decided to go with their set-up.

For those who don’t know, while the CETME has an adjustable front post, the HK has not. It is pinned into the hoop and while the outline is as sharp as a knife edge, it doesn’t move. It’s stamped steel so I wouldn’t be surprised by it being off-center. The rears are non-clicking finger adjustable for windage, and a tool is needed for elevation. Total pain in the ass and if I can dump it without spending $400 on the HK 4thGen 1200 yard sights I will.

As for cleaning the fluted chamber, that was a cinch (watch this Tom). I connected three pieces of a standard military M1/M14 cleaning rod (the one with the folding T-handle) and screwed the adapter for my shotgun patch-holding bit into it. I wet the chamber down with Hoppes with that set-up, unscrewed the shotgun bit and put one of these onto it. After that, I swabbed it out with one of these.

Abracadabra, ooh-laa-laa shiny. Inserted the cleaning rod guide and went to town on the barrel with Barak’s carbon fiber .30cal rod. Done in six minutes flat. I may be a lazy American, but I am foremost an American. That is why we win.

I went looking on this here interweb for the port buffer, even though my brass wasn’t all that mangled, but I haven’t been able to find any except for one at one of the auction sites. Does anyone else have a clue as to where to find them, or at least how much to bid on the one for auction?

And now down to the important part: The Name. I read through all of the suggestions (thank you everyone) and because of the cleverness of it, liked “Hans” as submitted by DFWMTX (you should have your psuedo-prize email in your inbox). However, after talking it over with the voices in my head, I have decided to just call the rifle “The Hun Bastard”. It’s action was designed and patented by a Polish engineer, stolen by Germans, perfected in Spain, then it returned to Germany for upgrades, was licensed throughout the world and this particular rifle was manufactured on Portugese equipment in Connecticut.

I’ll be going to the range again next weekend to zero this scope. More range reports then as well.

I also cleaned the 10/22.

To answer Steve’s question, I haven’t had the time or $$$ to upgrade his internals. He’s always been sub-minute of rodent with his factory internals, so it just hasn’t been that important. Btw, this will be the fourth optic I’ve had on it. It too has had the 6x that now sits on The Hun Bastard on his scope rail.