Waco here. I live in western Oregon. I've been shooting all my life, and reloading, and bullet casting for 15 years. I've enjoyed all kinds of shooting except long range shooting until now. Untill just recently, I've never shot anything past 100 yards. I fell into a rifle I couldn't pass up. Rem. 700 heavy barrel, McMillan fully adjustable stock, Harris bipod, and Leupold VXIII 3.5x10x50 mildot scope.
Oh yeah. .308
The gun is a shooter. I quickly found a load it likes. My best five shot group at 100 yards is .325"
The gun will shoot in the .6's all day long.
The load is...
LC '74 brass
WLR primers
38.5 grains of H4895
SMK 168
Col 2.900"
2460fps (slow, I know) shot too good to mess with!
So, we went camping a couple weeks ago out to the high desert of central Oregon.
I work in a fab shop and made some round 10 1/2" targets out of 3/8" AR400 steel
We hung them on saw horses starting at 350 yards. This was a breeze to hit. So we moved them out to 450, then 550, then 700 and that got hard. Thank God for the ballistics calculator app I got for my iPhone.
After a bit, I hit steel at 700 ! Very excited!
Then, we moved out to 900!
Man. That's tough! 15 or so rounds later, I hit steel at 900!
To say I was a happy camper is an understatement!
I never thought I would be able to do that my first time out.
Like I said, this is all very new to me. I have already seen abbreviations and phrases I don't recognize.
Please bear with this noobie as I am sure I'll have some silly questions for you guys.
So , greetings from the great pacific northwest!!!
Waco
Oh yeah. .308
The gun is a shooter. I quickly found a load it likes. My best five shot group at 100 yards is .325"
The gun will shoot in the .6's all day long.
The load is...
LC '74 brass
WLR primers
38.5 grains of H4895
SMK 168
Col 2.900"
2460fps (slow, I know) shot too good to mess with!
So, we went camping a couple weeks ago out to the high desert of central Oregon.
I work in a fab shop and made some round 10 1/2" targets out of 3/8" AR400 steel
We hung them on saw horses starting at 350 yards. This was a breeze to hit. So we moved them out to 450, then 550, then 700 and that got hard. Thank God for the ballistics calculator app I got for my iPhone.
After a bit, I hit steel at 700 ! Very excited!
Then, we moved out to 900!
Man. That's tough! 15 or so rounds later, I hit steel at 900!
To say I was a happy camper is an understatement!
I never thought I would be able to do that my first time out.
Like I said, this is all very new to me. I have already seen abbreviations and phrases I don't recognize.
Please bear with this noobie as I am sure I'll have some silly questions for you guys.
So , greetings from the great pacific northwest!!!
Waco
