i did some 200 & 400 yard shots with the SS5-20 on the 10/22 today with crappy wind. it was 10-15 mph quartering slightly to my right out to 200, then from 200-400 it was blowing 20mph at full value left- then right- then straight at me again- then.... there was about a 10 foot ring of plumes around my target at 400.
i busted out my scrounge-o-rama disc brake rotor to use as a target steel. i loved the sounds at 200, but couldn't hear it much at 400 (f-n wind!)
i went 9/10 at 200 with all shots in the lower right quadrant of the 10" rotor for an overall group of 8", with 6 shots inside 4", then 3 grouped tight ~3" to the right, and one just off the disc an inch from them. i held 5.5 mils high with no windage (using iStrelok for holds). i was feeling pretty cocky...
5x
20x
then i shot 20 at 400. i heard 2 distinct hits, and saw splash on a handful of others- total hits at 400= 7. considering the wind, i'm happy. i had to get settled on the gun, load the bipod, load the trigger, wait for the trees behind the target to stop waving, then squeeze off one, check for motion in the trees, shoot again, then the wind would kick up & blow my next shot 1.5 mils right. trees would stop, i'd shoot, and it would go 1.5 mils right again, so i'd hold or dial 1.5 right, get a hit, then it would switch & blow 2 mils left. there were a couple strings of 3 or 4 shots were i just walked it in, but with the wind swapping directions randomly, that just seemed irresponsible given the fact that i had the scope dialed 16.5 mils up & was holding 3 1/2 mils over that. (40 moa base time!). i couldn't get any decent pics of the target at 400 with the iphone.
then i finished my range session by trimming a dead tree at 60yds on 10x...
....and trimmed!
i see a http://swfa.com/SWFA-SS-10x42M-Tactical-Riflescope-P53713.aspx in this gun's future. i can't say that i noticed a big benefit to having 20x today, but then again, i wasn't punching paper...
rob
i busted out my scrounge-o-rama disc brake rotor to use as a target steel. i loved the sounds at 200, but couldn't hear it much at 400 (f-n wind!)
i went 9/10 at 200 with all shots in the lower right quadrant of the 10" rotor for an overall group of 8", with 6 shots inside 4", then 3 grouped tight ~3" to the right, and one just off the disc an inch from them. i held 5.5 mils high with no windage (using iStrelok for holds). i was feeling pretty cocky...
5x
20x
then i shot 20 at 400. i heard 2 distinct hits, and saw splash on a handful of others- total hits at 400= 7. considering the wind, i'm happy. i had to get settled on the gun, load the bipod, load the trigger, wait for the trees behind the target to stop waving, then squeeze off one, check for motion in the trees, shoot again, then the wind would kick up & blow my next shot 1.5 mils right. trees would stop, i'd shoot, and it would go 1.5 mils right again, so i'd hold or dial 1.5 right, get a hit, then it would switch & blow 2 mils left. there were a couple strings of 3 or 4 shots were i just walked it in, but with the wind swapping directions randomly, that just seemed irresponsible given the fact that i had the scope dialed 16.5 mils up & was holding 3 1/2 mils over that. (40 moa base time!). i couldn't get any decent pics of the target at 400 with the iphone.
then i finished my range session by trimming a dead tree at 60yds on 10x...
....and trimmed!
i see a http://swfa.com/SWFA-SS-10x42M-Tactical-Riflescope-P53713.aspx in this gun's future. i can't say that i noticed a big benefit to having 20x today, but then again, i wasn't punching paper...
rob
