Went out this morning with a setup (rifle, scope, bullet/load) that is semi-stable, which is a first after a looong period of development.
I'm fairly new to this LR thing unlike a lot of you. My prone needs a lot of work, and I suck at wind. Today wasn't too challenging as the wind was about 5-8 mph, 12 o'clock.
Shooting 208 Amax's out of my 22" 300WM, we set up first at 1100 yds. Using dope acquired from my last trip out with this setup (Oct.), I dialed in my elevation and put the first round on the upper right of the plate. Next round was about 4" away.
Dialed out .2 mil of elev. and held a little left and the next two rds. hit about 6" vertically from each other on the bottom/left of the plate. I was thrilled. 4 shots/4 hits.
My partner set up to shoot and found that the SF on his scope had broken. Not good. He said the gong looked like a Q-tip under a microscope. I told him that I wouldn't make him watch me shoot all day, but I would like to move out to 1300, since I've never shot that far.
Dialed in elev. from JBM (I just added the difference from 1100 to 1300 as JBM says my 1100 should be 8.3 mil and in reality it's 7.8). First shot hit just right of center at the bottom of the plate. Dialed in another .1 and the next two hit about 8" apart right in the center of the plate.
3 shots/3 hits. Needless to say, I'm quite pleased.
Here's where we shoot:
The white rectangle near the small tree is a 4'x8' piece of plywood at 500 yds. that we use for load development. We never got a chance to shoot at that today. The red arrow is pointing at the gong. It's starting to get really small.
We have room to move out and when my partner gets his scope back, we'll try for 1500 and then 1 mile. Might have to make a bigger gong. What size do you guys use for these distances?
Thanks for letting me share.
John
I'm fairly new to this LR thing unlike a lot of you. My prone needs a lot of work, and I suck at wind. Today wasn't too challenging as the wind was about 5-8 mph, 12 o'clock.
Shooting 208 Amax's out of my 22" 300WM, we set up first at 1100 yds. Using dope acquired from my last trip out with this setup (Oct.), I dialed in my elevation and put the first round on the upper right of the plate. Next round was about 4" away.
Dialed out .2 mil of elev. and held a little left and the next two rds. hit about 6" vertically from each other on the bottom/left of the plate. I was thrilled. 4 shots/4 hits.
My partner set up to shoot and found that the SF on his scope had broken. Not good. He said the gong looked like a Q-tip under a microscope. I told him that I wouldn't make him watch me shoot all day, but I would like to move out to 1300, since I've never shot that far.
Dialed in elev. from JBM (I just added the difference from 1100 to 1300 as JBM says my 1100 should be 8.3 mil and in reality it's 7.8). First shot hit just right of center at the bottom of the plate. Dialed in another .1 and the next two hit about 8" apart right in the center of the plate.
3 shots/3 hits. Needless to say, I'm quite pleased.
Here's where we shoot:
The white rectangle near the small tree is a 4'x8' piece of plywood at 500 yds. that we use for load development. We never got a chance to shoot at that today. The red arrow is pointing at the gong. It's starting to get really small.
We have room to move out and when my partner gets his scope back, we'll try for 1500 and then 1 mile. Might have to make a bigger gong. What size do you guys use for these distances?
Thanks for letting me share.
John
