Got up really, really early this morning... 530am...
Made the trek out to see a friend and borrow a scope and mount it up for shooting some ELR today. Got to play with a Preimer Heritage 5-25 Scope with a Gen 2XR reticle. (Nice scope, not a big fan of how you slip the knobs...not clear when you are slipping the knobs and when you are making adjustments... as noted later in the post, but other than that, great glass and the reticle is nice)
I like the reticle... 30 mils of travel on the scope, so with my 20moa base, and after zero I had 26.9 mils of come up with another 10 mils in the scope... total possible 36.9 mils. Just over 2700 yard theoretical make distance with the 338 Edge... not bad.
With the scope mounted, zeroed and the target camera setup we headed out to 1500yds to true our data and see what we could do.
Here is my setup for the day...
Targets are 2 square gongs... we have a 48" and a 24", here is the 24" this is before we shot at it today.
With the MET data inputed into my Shooter app on the iPhone, 12 mils was called for and .3 mils of wind... was about 75 degrees and 27.15 absolute pressure when we started. I am using a 300gr Berger OTM at 2800...(Later trued and discovered it's more like 2890fps)
First shot was center of the target about 2/10 mil high and 3/10 left of center... good enough for me, one shot/one hit... time to move on...
3 others shot as well.. We had a 260 that did well at 1500, peatered out after that, another 338 Edge and a 408 Cheytac that is just being broke in.
We then moved to 2020 yards... data called for 21 mils and 1.0 L for wind... first shot was high and left... adjusted back 1 mil and dialed another mil of hold... 2nd shot was good elevation but still 1 mil left.... hmm, something's not right.... Held 1 mil and hit the target...
Now I was confused as I had 2 mils of wind in and holding 1 more, then I took a good look at the scope... the adjustment on the windage knob for slipping the turret to reset to 0 was loose, and turning the knob didn't do anything... once I tightened the knob up and reset to 1 mils of wind, I was able to hold on and hit the target... chalk that one up to knowing your equipment.
So ending dope was 20mils/1mil wind good dope and repeatable... hitting at 2k, wasn't hard with the 338 Edge, now I have some dope to go with the rifle, I was feeling good.
Off we went to 2500yards, here is what it looks like from where we were at...
We wanted 1.5 miles, but couldn't get there so we figured out how to get to 2.5k and started in with shooting... that should have been 30 mils... I max out at 26.9, so I dialed 26 and held 4 in the scope... which was easy to do with that reticle... the mirage however, was terrible now, probably 90 or so and hot... and thru the scope you couldn't see the misses and call corrections... the camera worked great, but with it on the target, you can't see the misses... just hear them (btw... the mic on the camera works so well, that you can here the fly's buzzing around the camera...
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I tried about 6 shots, but no joy and with no corrections possible, I gave up... the other 338 tried a few times, and we think he hit the post, as it was a metal sound, but not the gong. The cheytac was tried by a couple guys,... we were persistent and just kept bracketing the target shot after shot, and finally the gong rung!!! The owner managed to hit it 2x, and with the dope figured out, I gave it a try and it took me 2 shots to hit it... wind really moves a bullet, and with the mirage so bad, you don't have a crisp clear sight picture at 2.5k, so little adjustments go a long way.
Here's the boys, don't mind the crack ;D
It was a great day of shooting, our target cam system works great... no problems at 2500 at all, need a 2nd camera focused below and wide on the ground to call misses.
The rifle ran great, it's a new gun to me and it's a shooter. The brake is loud and kicks up dust, but works very well... I could watch my own shots, the gun didn't move that much, and the kick was very reasonable... 408 not so much. Now I need to save up for my own scope, the Preimer scope is wicked, and should be for the price, and was a treat to use but I think I want the HDMR with the G2 for the price, one of the other guys had it on their gun today, and looking thru it and the premier was good... the Premier is better, but not $1500 better, but that's just me.
I've shot a mile with my 308 using 208gr loads, but this is my first time at distance with a bigger gun... what a difference, so much more confidence with the bigger pill, and very addictive... I want to try again at 2500 earlier in the morning and see if we can beat the mirage and get some hits.
Made the trek out to see a friend and borrow a scope and mount it up for shooting some ELR today. Got to play with a Preimer Heritage 5-25 Scope with a Gen 2XR reticle. (Nice scope, not a big fan of how you slip the knobs...not clear when you are slipping the knobs and when you are making adjustments... as noted later in the post, but other than that, great glass and the reticle is nice)
I like the reticle... 30 mils of travel on the scope, so with my 20moa base, and after zero I had 26.9 mils of come up with another 10 mils in the scope... total possible 36.9 mils. Just over 2700 yard theoretical make distance with the 338 Edge... not bad.
With the scope mounted, zeroed and the target camera setup we headed out to 1500yds to true our data and see what we could do.
Here is my setup for the day...
Targets are 2 square gongs... we have a 48" and a 24", here is the 24" this is before we shot at it today.
With the MET data inputed into my Shooter app on the iPhone, 12 mils was called for and .3 mils of wind... was about 75 degrees and 27.15 absolute pressure when we started. I am using a 300gr Berger OTM at 2800...(Later trued and discovered it's more like 2890fps)
First shot was center of the target about 2/10 mil high and 3/10 left of center... good enough for me, one shot/one hit... time to move on...
3 others shot as well.. We had a 260 that did well at 1500, peatered out after that, another 338 Edge and a 408 Cheytac that is just being broke in.
We then moved to 2020 yards... data called for 21 mils and 1.0 L for wind... first shot was high and left... adjusted back 1 mil and dialed another mil of hold... 2nd shot was good elevation but still 1 mil left.... hmm, something's not right.... Held 1 mil and hit the target...
Now I was confused as I had 2 mils of wind in and holding 1 more, then I took a good look at the scope... the adjustment on the windage knob for slipping the turret to reset to 0 was loose, and turning the knob didn't do anything... once I tightened the knob up and reset to 1 mils of wind, I was able to hold on and hit the target... chalk that one up to knowing your equipment.
So ending dope was 20mils/1mil wind good dope and repeatable... hitting at 2k, wasn't hard with the 338 Edge, now I have some dope to go with the rifle, I was feeling good.
Off we went to 2500yards, here is what it looks like from where we were at...
We wanted 1.5 miles, but couldn't get there so we figured out how to get to 2.5k and started in with shooting... that should have been 30 mils... I max out at 26.9, so I dialed 26 and held 4 in the scope... which was easy to do with that reticle... the mirage however, was terrible now, probably 90 or so and hot... and thru the scope you couldn't see the misses and call corrections... the camera worked great, but with it on the target, you can't see the misses... just hear them (btw... the mic on the camera works so well, that you can here the fly's buzzing around the camera...
)I tried about 6 shots, but no joy and with no corrections possible, I gave up... the other 338 tried a few times, and we think he hit the post, as it was a metal sound, but not the gong. The cheytac was tried by a couple guys,... we were persistent and just kept bracketing the target shot after shot, and finally the gong rung!!! The owner managed to hit it 2x, and with the dope figured out, I gave it a try and it took me 2 shots to hit it... wind really moves a bullet, and with the mirage so bad, you don't have a crisp clear sight picture at 2.5k, so little adjustments go a long way.
Here's the boys, don't mind the crack ;D
It was a great day of shooting, our target cam system works great... no problems at 2500 at all, need a 2nd camera focused below and wide on the ground to call misses.
The rifle ran great, it's a new gun to me and it's a shooter. The brake is loud and kicks up dust, but works very well... I could watch my own shots, the gun didn't move that much, and the kick was very reasonable... 408 not so much. Now I need to save up for my own scope, the Preimer scope is wicked, and should be for the price, and was a treat to use but I think I want the HDMR with the G2 for the price, one of the other guys had it on their gun today, and looking thru it and the premier was good... the Premier is better, but not $1500 better, but that's just me.
I've shot a mile with my 308 using 208gr loads, but this is my first time at distance with a bigger gun... what a difference, so much more confidence with the bigger pill, and very addictive... I want to try again at 2500 earlier in the morning and see if we can beat the mirage and get some hits.
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