Ruger SR 556 Range Report

[Kenstaroni]

I took the plunge last week and picked up a Ruger SR 556. I wanted to give a piston gun a try and see if I liked it. I took it to the range yesterday afternoon and I have to say I was very pleased.

The rifle was purchased new and this was my first experience with one. The weather today was about 60 degrees with a slight wind of 5-10mph. It has an Eotech 552. A65 on it with no magnifier, so I sighted in at 50 yards. All grouping was done at 50 yds.

The rifle has a JP enterprises trigger spring set and PWS compensator on it. Pictures of the rifle below. BTW, the cheapo bipod was only used for this afternoon. I took off my Surefire forward grip with light and laser as I prefer to use a bipod when shooting from a bench. Other goodies include Magpul ACS stock and Bager tactical latch.

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I encountered one failure to eject at round number 8, but the day was flawless otherwise with all brass ammo. I tried some Tula 55 grn after about 150 rounds of brass ammo just to see how it would handle it. The SR would only fire the Tula ammo one round at a time and I was unable to run the gun semi-auto with several tries. I adjusted the gas setting to 3 and it ran 60 rounds, fired rapidly, flawlessly. I did notice an increase in recoil on setting 3.

Once I got it sighted in as I liked, the first group I shot was with Federal 55 grn FMJ.

On target calculated the MOA at 1.077

-the hole off to the left was actually the first shot as I was sighting in. I was aiming at a target to this target's left and had to bring the sight about 15" left from bore sight. The three shot group in the middle was done later in the day.

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The next group was PMC Bronze 55 grn FMJ

MOA Calculated at 1.284

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The third group was with American Eagle XM193 55 grn FMJ

MOA Calculated at 1.199

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I'll need some more seat time before I can give a full report on the rifle, however the initial impressions were great!

[Guest JHatmaker]

Glad it worked out for you. I've heard nothing but good things about the SR556. For what you get accessories wise (Troy Ind sights, Magpul goodies etc) for the price, it really can't be beat.

[frontier737]

Thanks for a well worded post about the SR556.

I own one as well and the first time I shot I used Tula ammo and had lots of failure to eject issues. In fact the only way I could clear my rifle was with a cleaning rod from the muzzle and tap it out with a hammer.

I ran 500 rounds of brass ammo with zero issues one afternoon so guess which type of ammo I will only buy from here on out.

Again, thanks for a good post. I enjoyed it.

[fizik]

Looks like a damn fine gun. I hope to own one sometime soon.

[tellicomoto]

I'm not much on AR's; but, I really like your Ruger! Nice write up too. Thanks.

[willis68]

Very nice rifle, Congrats