175gr SMK 1000 Yard Terminal Ballistics

[Shady_Jay]

This morning we were shooting weak side at 1000 yards. The client hit the steel and I saw what I though was something flying off the center of the target. I asked if he saw it and he didn't. I couldn't figure out what the hell flew off the center of the target and then up over the height of the steel.

Later, I went down to paint the targets and saw the little bird. I laughed so hard. The bullet hit the steel the exact second the bird flew in front of the target. The grenade-like shrapnel from the copper jacketing killed the bird.

Here he is with his 1000 yard kill:

After seeing it and replaying it in my mind; it looked just like when you shoot a dove and it folds up before it hits the ground.

What's the odds?

 

[Krav69]

Re: 175gr SMK 1000 Yard Terminal Ballistics

Whoa!!!

 

[LRS_Ranger]

Re: 175gr SMK 1000 Yard Terminal Ballistics

Kinda like this...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbmED5bXsLg&feature=related

 

[blklabs]

Re: 175gr SMK 1000 Yard Terminal Ballistics

I think I have found a new way to dove hunt. I little millet under the 1000 yard steel ..... hmmmmmmmmmmmm. That is too funny and good shooting, lol.

 

[Shady_Jay]

Re: 175gr SMK 1000 Yard Terminal Ballistics

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: LRS_Ranger</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Kinda like this...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbmED5bXsLg&feature=related </div></div>

Exactly! We were talking about that afterwards. lol

 

[GardDog]

Re: 175gr SMK 1000 Yard Terminal Ballistics

NTRP-CKA has some very exacting standards for passing his courses. Having to complete a weak side 1000 yard kill with match boolits on a tweety bird in flight to "pass" was not in the online course description. Hell, I thought that the 750 yard golf ball hit was going to be difficult. Now..... let's see the next student match that.

 

[rrflyer]

Re: 175gr SMK 1000 Yard Terminal Ballistics

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: GardDog223</div><div class="ubbcode-body">NTRP-CKA has some very exacting standards for passing his courses. Having to complete a weak side 1000 yard kill with match boolits on a tweety bird in flight to "pass" was not in the online course description. Hell, I thought that the 750 yard golf ball hit was going to be difficult. Now..... let's see the next student match that.

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Go big or go home!!!!

 

[Shady_Jay]

Re: 175gr SMK 1000 Yard Terminal Ballistics

Like I tell everyone:



If you're gonna be a bear, you be a Grizzly.