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308 FN SPR @ 400yd Movers with 178gr Amax's

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Gunny Sergeant
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Minuteman
Apr 15, 2009
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Pittsburgh, PA
Shot moving targets today at 400yds with the FN SPR 20" 1:12. Load was 178gr Amax. Hornady brass, 44gr Reloader 15, and Wolf LG primers @ 2650fps. Got a group of guys today and we all shot movers at 400yds then moved back to 1K after everyong had their fill of shooting movers. Got good leads at 400yd for this load and it matches up with Mil-Dot ballistics calculations.
Walking pace of 2FPS was one MIL exact at this yardage and 7.5moa was the come up.
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Buddy was also shooting his AR with a Tijicon on it, not sure what load he was shooting. Might have been stardard SS109's.
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Load and rifle performed excellent today, also got a nice NRA wind flad up today.
The rifle was dead on a 37moa up and was holding off one Mil for wind.
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Full Value wind at 1000yds. That flag was stiffer than Jerry Sanduskys at a junior league football game.
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5 shot group at 1K out of the FN with the 178's. First two shots was high, almost shot out the spotter disc. Adjust and dropped three in to "X" ring.
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2 guys are Hide Memebers along with myself.
Any other Hide members in the Pittsburgh area are welcome to come shoot. Pm me and I will get you my contact info. As you can see we shoot a large range of stuff and the more guys the more fun it is. The range is in the Beaver Falls area which is aprrox 45min west of the Burgh.

I would like to get a few more guys that like shooting long range and tactical style stuff. Movers, unknown range, you name it we will probaly shoot it.

Good group of guys to shoot with and a good knowledge base to learn from.

Terry
 
Re: 308 FN SPR @ 400yd Movers with 178gr Amax's

I have a FN SPR sitting in the safe, I should did it put someday and give it a whirl, have heard good things of them.
 
Re: 308 FN SPR @ 400yd Movers with 178gr Amax's

Love My FN SPR 20". Every guy that has shot it wants to buy it off me. One guy shot a 2 3/4" group at 1K with it a few weeks ago. They are great rifles for the $$$. Will have another in the safe before the end of the year.

Terry

This is my SPR, with a 6.5x20 Leupold MK4 M1 turrets. Yes MOA!

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Re: 308 FN SPR @ 400yd Movers with 178gr Amax's

Impressive! Wish i could make it up there sometimes, i also have FN SPR from Mike, 24" tho. I haven't had a chance to stretch her legs tho, Living in northern Virginia i am limited on distance. Gotta know someone to stretch out to 1k and unfortunately haven't met them yet of you gotta pay an arm and a leg to use a range that has 1k capabilities. Keep us posted on your results, looked like a nice day out on the range, the heat has been killing us down here in the DC area for the past 2 weeks, this week should be nice for shooting!

Regards,
Ben Y
 
Re: 308 FN SPR @ 400yd Movers with 178gr Amax's

Great Shooting!!! That is Awesome! I need to find a good 1k range around San Antonio so I can test out my toys... Most I can get right now is 300 yds.

Good Shooting!
 
Re: 308 FN SPR @ 400yd Movers with 178gr Amax's

Find it hard to believe there are no guys in this area that are hide members that would not love to shoot this range. Even if your not local and want to travel and shoot on the weekend your welcome to attend. Just shoot me a pm.

Got a couple guys at my club but they keep backing out. I guess they are all bull shitters that don't want to put it on paper. They can shoot great out to 500m but the crap starts to fly after that.

Regardless of how you shoot it's a good time with a group of good guys.

Terry