Folks,
Hello and I thought I would share a brief AAR of some shooting yesterday. Felt good to be out on the farm in the beautiful spring weather. No COVID19 there either.
SITUATION:
809yd lane vs steel yote target, 750ft D.A., 3-5mph 3 to 5 o'clock winds.
308 shooting 198gr Flatlines, doing 2780fps at the muzzle w/ very low velocity variation.
Here is the lane. Note this FP is on the side of a wooded hill for about 150 yd and it drops off steeply about 100ft down to a creek, and then goes across 650 yds of pastures, then back into woods for about 100yds. Wind is tough to judge to put it mildly. You can just barely make out a large paper poster I was shooting for groups on. Just past set back in woods is the camo'ed target, the 12" tall, x 24" wide yote from JC Steel : https://jcsteeltargets.configio.com/pd/312/coyote-38-thick?returncom=productlist&source=search
On the scope, check out my VCDL "GUNS SAVE LIVES" Sticker from the 2A Richmond Rally! Thank you VCDL for defending our Rights.
RESULTS:
Dead Yote! 3 for 3 impacts. Check out the picture:
What I liked about the picture is the nice contrast in splash between Flatlines and lead core bullets.
The Flatlines are circled in red and you can nearly see the machining on the back of the boat tail. You also see 3 impacts from lead core bullets - 130gr Berger Hybrids - but these were at 325 yds. The lead core bullet impacts were just visible to me in my scope (Premier 5-25x) whereas the Flatline impacts were not. But I sure saw the target move on impact and heard it - the 198gr Flatline is still carrying 1900 ft.lbs of energy at this range. Interestingly, the 130gr Berger's at 2950fps 6.5x47L were carrying about the same level of energy when they impacted at 325 yds, so splash energy was about the same for the two impacts.
Fun stuff and I hope you find those impacts comparison interesting.
Hello and I thought I would share a brief AAR of some shooting yesterday. Felt good to be out on the farm in the beautiful spring weather. No COVID19 there either.
SITUATION:
809yd lane vs steel yote target, 750ft D.A., 3-5mph 3 to 5 o'clock winds.
308 shooting 198gr Flatlines, doing 2780fps at the muzzle w/ very low velocity variation.
Here is the lane. Note this FP is on the side of a wooded hill for about 150 yd and it drops off steeply about 100ft down to a creek, and then goes across 650 yds of pastures, then back into woods for about 100yds. Wind is tough to judge to put it mildly. You can just barely make out a large paper poster I was shooting for groups on. Just past set back in woods is the camo'ed target, the 12" tall, x 24" wide yote from JC Steel : https://jcsteeltargets.configio.com/pd/312/coyote-38-thick?returncom=productlist&source=search
On the scope, check out my VCDL "GUNS SAVE LIVES" Sticker from the 2A Richmond Rally! Thank you VCDL for defending our Rights.
RESULTS:
Dead Yote! 3 for 3 impacts. Check out the picture:
What I liked about the picture is the nice contrast in splash between Flatlines and lead core bullets.
The Flatlines are circled in red and you can nearly see the machining on the back of the boat tail. You also see 3 impacts from lead core bullets - 130gr Berger Hybrids - but these were at 325 yds. The lead core bullet impacts were just visible to me in my scope (Premier 5-25x) whereas the Flatline impacts were not. But I sure saw the target move on impact and heard it - the 198gr Flatline is still carrying 1900 ft.lbs of energy at this range. Interestingly, the 130gr Berger's at 2950fps 6.5x47L were carrying about the same level of energy when they impacted at 325 yds, so splash energy was about the same for the two impacts.
Fun stuff and I hope you find those impacts comparison interesting.
