Thought Saturday would be a good day to go out and do a little shooting since I haven't been out in a while, couple the cold temps with the stiff wind, it was a good day to practice. I don't have any rounds loaded up for the .308, and i'll be sending it off to the holy grail of gunsmiths soon for some work, no point in doing any load development since things are going to change on it.
The wind was holding between 8 and 11mph full value (Kestrel 4000 told me so), and gusts were hitting 14-15mph, nice thing was was that it was constant across the entire distance to shoot. It sucks when you're doing some long range shooting and the wind is doing one thing at one yardage, and the complete opposite, or at least just something different at another yardage.
I had my zero set for Remington CBee22's for the backyard, and I wanted to get my SK Standard Plus zero (affordable match ammo @ $5/box) so I can start doing some squirrel sniping again now that deer season is over. Set my target box at 50y and got the zero dialed in, and punched two groups. The second group I took my time on and waited on wind conditions for each shot. The group is a fluke, I got lucky on one group with the wind the way it was. The rest of the groups that I shot were more like group 1.
After I set my zero I moved back to 150 yards to check my dope chart, and see what Exbal was saying. Exbal was correct on the wind, but several minutes off on the elevation, need to work on that. I printed 2 groups that turned out to be dead on with the windage correction, and my elevation correction that I had determined in a previous outing this past summer was correct rather than exbal. At 150y the extreme velocity spread from round to round really starts to show. I need to order some Eley Tenex, run it over the chrono, and then do this test again to remove the velocity variation from the equation when it comes to MOA group size at long range for the .22.
Next I drove back to 200 yards and got setup. By this point the sun was starting to get low on the horizon, and the wind was dying down. Exbal called for 8.5moa wind, but since the wind had died down a bit, I dialed for 5 and sent my rounds. The 27moa that exbal called for, and my drop chart for 175m (191y) weren't quite enough. I needed another 3moa that my scope didn't have in it, so I just held over 3moa and send the remaining 4 rounds for the final group. You can see the 1 group of 5, the 1st round of the 2nd group printed just above, and to the left (out of view), I held over and sent the last 4. 3 hit in the group you see, one went high and just barely nicked the steel somewhere and made the strangest "zing" i've ever heard.
Overall, I was pleased, the steel rang quite nicely for being hit was subsonic .22lr rounds. I was happy to hold average of 2moa at those distances with the wind being the way it was. I need to get a better can of paint. I used to have some great paint, but it suffered a .308 round from 800 yards when the shooter (not me) forgot to dial in the elevation change from 700 to 800 yards. I believe with better paint I can get a better coat on the steel to better see my impacts, at 200 it was hard to see some of the strikes.
I'm going to get a 20moa base ordered sometime soon and get that on so I can try 250 and perhaps 300 yards just for gits and shiggles. I'll likely try those with Eley just to see exactly how good it can do.
Branden
The wind was holding between 8 and 11mph full value (Kestrel 4000 told me so), and gusts were hitting 14-15mph, nice thing was was that it was constant across the entire distance to shoot. It sucks when you're doing some long range shooting and the wind is doing one thing at one yardage, and the complete opposite, or at least just something different at another yardage.
I had my zero set for Remington CBee22's for the backyard, and I wanted to get my SK Standard Plus zero (affordable match ammo @ $5/box) so I can start doing some squirrel sniping again now that deer season is over. Set my target box at 50y and got the zero dialed in, and punched two groups. The second group I took my time on and waited on wind conditions for each shot. The group is a fluke, I got lucky on one group with the wind the way it was. The rest of the groups that I shot were more like group 1.
After I set my zero I moved back to 150 yards to check my dope chart, and see what Exbal was saying. Exbal was correct on the wind, but several minutes off on the elevation, need to work on that. I printed 2 groups that turned out to be dead on with the windage correction, and my elevation correction that I had determined in a previous outing this past summer was correct rather than exbal. At 150y the extreme velocity spread from round to round really starts to show. I need to order some Eley Tenex, run it over the chrono, and then do this test again to remove the velocity variation from the equation when it comes to MOA group size at long range for the .22.
Next I drove back to 200 yards and got setup. By this point the sun was starting to get low on the horizon, and the wind was dying down. Exbal called for 8.5moa wind, but since the wind had died down a bit, I dialed for 5 and sent my rounds. The 27moa that exbal called for, and my drop chart for 175m (191y) weren't quite enough. I needed another 3moa that my scope didn't have in it, so I just held over 3moa and send the remaining 4 rounds for the final group. You can see the 1 group of 5, the 1st round of the 2nd group printed just above, and to the left (out of view), I held over and sent the last 4. 3 hit in the group you see, one went high and just barely nicked the steel somewhere and made the strangest "zing" i've ever heard.
Overall, I was pleased, the steel rang quite nicely for being hit was subsonic .22lr rounds. I was happy to hold average of 2moa at those distances with the wind being the way it was. I need to get a better can of paint. I used to have some great paint, but it suffered a .308 round from 800 yards when the shooter (not me) forgot to dial in the elevation change from 700 to 800 yards. I believe with better paint I can get a better coat on the steel to better see my impacts, at 200 it was hard to see some of the strikes.
I'm going to get a 20moa base ordered sometime soon and get that on so I can try 250 and perhaps 300 yards just for gits and shiggles. I'll likely try those with Eley just to see exactly how good it can do.
Branden
