100 yards, Battle of the Bullpups Edgun -vs- Cricket

I was traveling today and knew I might just have enough time to drop by a 100 yard indoor range built into my schedule so here is how it went down. Since I normally shoot indoor at work on the weekends all by myself I did not have any hearing protection with me in my bag but I got lucky and was the only one at first and I got in a whopping 15 minutes on the range before a guy showed up wanting to blast away with his Ar15.

Let me qualify a bit of how this session went down before you judge the results as this is a serious case of the shooter and station influencing the outcome. When I got my range bag unpacked and my front rest in place, I set the gun up and realized they had swapped to some kind of dorky 12″ tall wood stools since I had been there and I could not come close to getting a cheek weld. I ended up setting my front rest aside and propping the gun on both of my soft bags under the forearm and shouldering the butt stock. No it doesn’t stop there, I also had to kick my right ankle under me and sit on top of it with only my left foot on the floor. 👿 .

I knew there was another guy coming as he said he was gonna browse in the shop a bit before he came down, so I hurried like crazy and shot a few rounds with with holdover for some quick practice/reference and it just didn’t feel or look good so I changed my plan and threw 52 clicks up in the cricket, it was close so I added 4 more rounds and shot that group. The edgun was shooting a bit low and right yesterday at 80 yards so it got 54 clicks up and then another 5 up and 5 left to get close and I shot that group. Thats it done, thanks to the guy waiting on me as I shot the last 5 shots from the Edgun. I packed my stuff in about 2 minutes and was outta there. I know everybody makes excuses but since people will compare the guns from this to a small degree I thought it worth saying how it went down so poorly over all. I could see my cross hairs weaving and bopping on both guns but done the best I could at the time. UGGG it was painful. I cannot wait to do this again under better circumstances as both guns have so much more to offer. I think both can do 1″ now with a proper rest and hold. The cricket faired a bit better but to be fair I could get a couple of fingers under the butstock and was more stable in micro adjusting. The Edgun I had to wrap my palm around it’s butstock due the the longer hangdown and it was real akward. I still think in my gut that both guns shoot the same !!! Sorry so sloppy but just real rushed and ill prepared.

I think it curious the cricket shot vertical and the Edgun horizontal. I would have expected the opposite, The Cricket was tuned by Ernest 300 or so rounds ago so I is likely close on the shot spread and the Edgun still needs chronyed from the HST adjusted with locknut swap out and guess at setting it back !! I can find no logic ??? other than the two different holds as the guns were shot.