Frag Out! Magazine
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www.fragoutmag.com The first introduction to BREN 2 took place on the shooting range near the Czech town of Bzenec, close to Uhersky Brod. The range is a pretty large installation in the open, sandy landscape. According to many experts, the Bzenec shooting range is its nature very close to the arid, hot, sandy and dusty areas of the Middle East. But on the day of our testing, this was far from true. It was the end of the winter, the day was cloudy, the temperature just above zero degrees Celsius and the sand was wet from steady drizzle which with in time turned into a pouring rain. The first instruction took place under an open shelter, where we were joined by two Czech Army shooting instructors. The instruction soon became an open discussion over filling of the mag- azines. These were available in different versions, all of them M16/M4 compatible. While the pile of full magazines happily rose up, some participants went to the back- stop slope of the range to place the targets there. We placed there a couple of pa- per bull's eye targets for an aimed shooting and a bunch of sheet silhouettes for practical shooting. On the bulls, we checked the zero of the available guns. We had a rifle with barrel length of 11 inches (280 mm) – this is the basic standard gun – and the Meopta ZD Dot 1,5 riflescope. We also tested a short carbine with the barrel 8 inches (207 mm) long which is intended for specialists and everyone who needs short, maneuverable gun enabling a fast movement in confined spaces. On the top of the carbine were peep type folding irons. On the rifle, there was a vertical grip on the