Hoping for a 1600yd P-Dog

[105amatt]

Well, I am heading out for p-dog land tomorrow. By my estimates, the ground we are headed for may provide up to a 1600 yard shot. I am probably just getting my hopes up, but the 6.5x284 is tuned up and ready. I will report back when I return.

-Matt

 

[dareposte]

Re: Hoping for a 1600yd P-Dog

How exactly do you range a P-dog at 1600 yds?

 

[Jimmym40a2]

Re: Hoping for a 1600yd P-Dog

I have hit one at 1630. Have fun!

 

[105amatt]

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I figure a couple ways, one Mr. GPS unit, two if I am at one end of a section and the dog mounds are almost at the other side of the section that is around 1600. Then there is the old walking some bullets in on them trick.

-Matt

 

[105amatt]

Re: Hoping for a 1600yd P-Dog

Thanks Jimmy, I will!

 

[airborne6.8]

Re: Hoping for a 1600yd P-Dog

Walk them in like mortor fire. Splash out.

 

[raptor99]

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Sounds like a good way to junk out your 6.5x284. It won't take long to shoot the throat out in a dog town. I seen a guy go through a 300wm barrel and a high dollar custom AR trying to hit one at over a 1000yds.

Besides, like one of the guys said its mortors not shooting. When you can dial it in and shoot it and hit it in the fist or second shot then you should be able to brag about it. Until then its just luck.

 

[TimK]

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Uh, can you see a dog at 1,600 yards?

 

[One-Eyed Jack]

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Dan Kinneman shot a dog at over 2,500 yards in Green River, WY a few years ago. IIRC, he used a 300RUM. He had it stuffed and displayed humorously in his store -- the critter is flipping the bird with one paw. Dan spent several days scouting dogs and finding a good spot to shoot, and drove some rebar into the ground to anchor his shooting table. At that range he wasn't shooting at one particular dog, rather he was shooting at a group of dogs that was sunning themselves around the same mound. Wind is a huge factor at that range, so he was there at sunrise each morning, when there was little wind, to try for a dog.

Good luck with the shoot, it's not an easy thing. When I was in WY for a dog shoot on private land, we were in a hilly area and a shot beyond about 800-900 yards was impossible because of the terrain. My longest hit was 710 yards with a GAP 223 (80SMKs at 2850fps) and S&B 3-12x50 PMII. I think I needed 3 or 4 shots to get the dog.

 

[105amatt]

Re: Hoping for a 1600yd P-Dog

Well, the trip did not go as planned. The farmer double booked his place for the weekend and we got shafted. We where able to find a couple other spots to shoot, but there wasn't the distance that the other place had. I was able to roll a few at 600. Bye the bye, I have shot a p-dog at 1020, so I don't think I am desperate enough to fuck up my barrel, thanks anyway.

 

[aussiegolf89]

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I have hit multiple p-dogs at 550yds with a savage model 10 chambered in .204 ruger. I think 1000yds with a .338 lapua mag would be somewhat easy as long as the wind cooperate with me..

 

[105amatt]

Re: Hoping for a 1600yd P-Dog

Yes, the wind is my biggest frustration out there. It can gust from 15 to 30 in a blink of an eye, but I bet if we connected with a shot every time it wouldn't be as fun

. My buddy has the same savage that you are talking about, it has blown up a whole herd of p-dogs too, this year he set a personal best with that particular gun at 536 yds. Long shots or lots of shorter shots, its hard to beat a day in p-dog town

-Matt

 

[GUNZ n AMMO]

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if he can make hits by doing what he's trained on, it's not LUCK. Luck is when you shit and find gems... here in Las Vegas we have plenty of BLM land that you can shoot almost unlimited distance, no P-dogs just cayotes. What velocity you have on your rounds? and what barrel and length? Good luck on the P-Dogg hunt at ultra long range distance...

 

[dar1246]

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Hit one at 1390 yard last year and a buddy of mine shot 30 times at it and miss. Conditions was perfect though.

You will have a good time.

 

[2bfarming]

Re: Hoping for a 1600yd P-Dog

No better practice.