Stribog SP10A3 10mm At The Range

I posted about the modifications to the SP10A3 as well as magazine loaders and now it is time to talk about how it performed. One of my brother-in-laws and nephews were in town and ready to help me try it out. First off, we had a lot of fun and second, the 10mm Stribog ran stunningly well.

Preparing For the Range

When the Stribog arrived, I field stripped, cleaned and lubricated it. This is always a good idea because you never know what all will be in a firearm – preservatives, dirt or even dry with no lubricant.

The manual is well written so read it. The sections on field stripping, cleaning, and oiling are worth your time. I would also recommend hand cycling the action a few hundred times to accelerate your parts getting to know each other – also known as wearing in.

The bolt assembly made up of the large carrier to the rear (right) and the bolt head in front (left), is enormous. A lot of the 10mm recoil is eaten up by inertia, the recoil spring and then a giant buffer block. It’s no wonder the recoil is incredibly mild. Also, when you have something this big, there can be a ton of friction so you need to lubricate it.

This giant rubbery green thing is the recoil buffer. I honestly don’t recall ever seeing one this big – every. If the inertia of the bolt and recoil spring leave enough energy to drive the bolt carrier into this buffer, it can handle it without a doubt.

Visiting the Range

My brother-in-law, Banduy, and nephew, Julian, headed to the range to have some fun and break in the Stribog. It was a great day as we unloaded and set up the targets, moved the bench into place and got ready.

We used the Custom Smith .45 UMP loader to fill up four 20 round magazines with S&B 180gr FMJ. Folks, I have shot cases of this stuff and it’s fantastic range ammo in all of my 10mm pistols and now the Stribog.

I shot the first magazine and was very impressed. The action was smooth with very little felt recoil. I did need to dial in the UH-1 a bit as the laser boresight allowed me to get the UH-1 in the vacinity if the round impacts on the paper.

By the way, I initially had a quick connect sling loop on the A3 Stribog adapter just about the top rear of the grip. It was really annoying and I got rid of it very quickly. Maybe someone with smaller hands wouldn’t notice it but I sure did.

Julian has been shooting with me for almost 20 years now. Time flies by. He was next up and with practiced skill did a steady 20 round set standing freehand with no problems at all.

This was his first 20 round set as he got used to the Stribog. He was about 25-40 feet back getting started.

I haven’t done a comparison of felt recoil with the micro compensator and without. I can tell you that it is incredibly smooth with it on.

We had a lot of fun. The Stribog just rocked it, No failures of any kind through 200 rounds of ammo. The one thing I realized after the outing was that I could shoot through a case of 10mm pretty quick with the SP10A3.

Summary

We shot the Strbog freehand back to about 25 yards and found it to be a delight to shoot. It definitely filled my desire for a 10mm carbine vs. my various 10mm pistols and would highly recommend it. GrandPower did another great job with the SP10A3.

I’ve since had it out a couple of more times and it’s run great everytime. Yes, I did have to buy more S&B 180gr ammo because of it 🙂

I hope this helps you out.

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