I've been tinkering with a little project for the last week. In my backyard I'm only able to shoot at 25/50 meters, but I would like to practice my milling/range estimation AND dialing my elevation for longer ranges.
So here's what I've come up with so far:
I bought different sizes of self-adhesive stickers. Representing different size steel plates.
I then printed a paper with a mil-scale on it, in .2 increments.
On the backside of the paper, at the zero line, I put a target sticker. I prepare the scale-side by putting an identical sticker on the 4 MIL line. (You would of course prepare these target before hand for use at a later time, so not to remember at what elevation the sticker is.)
In this case, the target is a 10 mm sticker, representing a 2" plate.
Milling the target I get .4 MILS, giving me a target distance of 125 meters.
I dial my elevation for that distance and take a shot at the target sticker.
If I've done both the milling and dialing correct, I should have hit the sticker on the scale-side when checking the target.
By either changing the size of the sticker, or changing the plate size it represents, I can vary my "shooting distance", while still shooting at 25 yds.
The thing I haven't figured out yet, is how to get direct hit/miss feedback when taking the shot. (Like you would shooting steel).
The obvious way would of course be to put both stickers on the same side. The problem with that though, it that you'd see/cheat if you dialed the correct elevation even before taking the shot.
Anyway... Don't know if this would be of interest to anyone, but thought I'd share. =)
So here's what I've come up with so far:
I bought different sizes of self-adhesive stickers. Representing different size steel plates.
I then printed a paper with a mil-scale on it, in .2 increments.
On the backside of the paper, at the zero line, I put a target sticker. I prepare the scale-side by putting an identical sticker on the 4 MIL line. (You would of course prepare these target before hand for use at a later time, so not to remember at what elevation the sticker is.)
In this case, the target is a 10 mm sticker, representing a 2" plate.
Milling the target I get .4 MILS, giving me a target distance of 125 meters.
I dial my elevation for that distance and take a shot at the target sticker.
If I've done both the milling and dialing correct, I should have hit the sticker on the scale-side when checking the target.
By either changing the size of the sticker, or changing the plate size it represents, I can vary my "shooting distance", while still shooting at 25 yds.
The thing I haven't figured out yet, is how to get direct hit/miss feedback when taking the shot. (Like you would shooting steel).
The obvious way would of course be to put both stickers on the same side. The problem with that though, it that you'd see/cheat if you dialed the correct elevation even before taking the shot.
Anyway... Don't know if this would be of interest to anyone, but thought I'd share. =)
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