I happened to get a free morning that wasn’t raining and did a fast range trip to try to zero a test piece for a feature. As it’s light – and the ammo for it is light – I elected to take the SIG P322 along for the ride.

The range was deserted and I quickly set about my tasks. With a pair of groups shot, the turn of a screwdriver and I had success with the “object of the exercise.” With a little time to spare, I stapled up a fresh B-8 repair center and loaded a magazine for the P322.

To add to my previous ‘bench’ testing of the gun, here, I attempted to load the magazine up to 20 rounds. I got to 19.

I plead old age.

No matter. The only ammo I brought was the “Got Ammo?” package of CCI Blazer, the “200 Round Pour Pack,” featuring a 38-grain lead round nose bullet. They advertise the velocity at over 1,200 fps – and, out of a rifle barrel, I have little doubt it makes it.

I’ve not found this to be the “accuracy load” for any gun yet, but it’s reliable, it seems consistent in report and recoil, and it shoots at least as good as any bulk packed 22 LR ammo I’ve tried.

Having the “almost full” magazine loaded, I made a stab at a 10-shot group. This was using a range bag and bench for support and the target was 25 yards away … this wasn’t the close backstop on the ‘rimfire range.’

Both groups, the first one high and right; the second is a bit low and right. The three shots in the upper right (barcode)? -- Those are from five yards standing, the last rounds fired.

I found vertical stringing in the group, which was high and right of the bull, as shown. The group was around four-inches high and 3 ½” wide – by no means terrible.

With nine rounds remaining, I held below the bull – with light between the bottom of the 9-ring circle and the top of that bright fiber optic front sight. I worked to make my grip consistent as I could. This gave me nine hits in a group 2 3/8” high by 1 ¾” wide.

Yep, still a bit of vertical dispersion, but vastly more rounded. That tells me that it’s my grip.

For a field pistol and bulk ammo, this is very nice accuracy. The trigger helps, without doubt. Getting used to the feel of that “more slender than a P320” grip module likewise helped.

Why a 10-shot group? I don’t shoot 3-shot groups because the results can be biased far too easily. Five-shot groups are better, in fact they’re a standard, partly because five tells you vastly more than three.

Ten shot groups become an endurance contest. A good many guns don’t hold ten rounds and you have to break concentration (and often lose your consistent grip) to reload. Still, this exercise told me a lot about (1) my hold and (2) the gun and the ammo. I’m liking that second group. The first was simply a “loose nut behind the sights.”

That little 3-shot group in the “bar code” at the top of the target? I always finish the range session with some strict precision work, a small mark at fairly close range. I held the top of the front sight just over the top of the barcode at fifteen feet.

Failed to find -- and use -- targets in a promotional kit from SIG Sauer.