Shooting roos on the run with the 308 certainly gets them out of the bull tussocks and matagari.Have a couple of 5 shot mags spare.Great practice for lazy deer strolling along into your view.
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Shooting roos on the run with the 308 certainly gets them out of the bull tussocks and matagari.Have a couple of 5 shot mags spare.Great practice for lazy deer strolling along into your view.
Haha - the two blokes i was talking about are roo shooters (well wallabies anyway)
Precision shooting and shooting for groups etc is a whole other ball game than proficient and practical shooting.
I'm going to sound like that "my dad is bigger than your dad" kid here but my dad is actually my hero when it comes to being proficient with a rifle. He shoots for a living these days, on the ground and from a chopper. He can shoot a running deer or wallaby through the neck at 70 yds from a chopper waving all over the show and quite often several in quick succession, can swing a rifle up whilst exerting himself and shoot running hares etc with boring efficiency. Yet, if you asked him to sit down and shoot some groups he would just stare at you blankly and possibly even ask "why?"
I can confirm that @dannyb is a giant among men but then again I'm a massive 5'6" and 62kg and still outperform the other builders I work with who are 20+ years younger than me.
Gave it a go this morning once the fog lifted
Clean cold barrel @405 yds didn’t quite get the breeze right though
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Then tried the standing unsupported @108 yds and I fully admit really surprised myself so fired a second shot just to see
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75 yards .270 win standing,called the shot 7 oclock 2" low it was 7 oclock 3" low and missed pig at 10 yards and another at 20!!!!!! they werent very big and fern was taller than them,shooting at glimpse of pig having kicked them out of bed.....my confidence took a hell of a hit so shot plate when got back to wagon
Leave him alone @dannyb, he's technologically handicapped and I forgot to teach him how to post pics when he asked. Not sure if he should call me a real mate anymore.
ILL FIX him...I txt photo to @dannyb its a pain in the arse for me to post photo as have to upload it onto computer to begin with....will try from phone but ...yip Im a techtard.
@Micky Duck 's plate
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bastard!!!!!!
I think he chucked the pooseventy for a blowgun. They dont work very well at 100 metres either :)
Here is @Micky Duck 's actual plate....standing shot at 75yards
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Photos backwards but we get the idea. I can confirm @Micky Duck neck shot a fast moving wallaby at 30 metres with an open sighted 45/70 a couple of months ago. The man can shoot on a good day.
so looking on phone...blue screen,where the hell is option to add a photo????
I'll give you a call mate.
Here's my target at 500m off a bipod, 8" blanking flange hanging off a traffic management sign pole.
I have a vid but no idea how to load it. Very keen to see how unsupported goes.
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you dont need to go unsupported,the challenge is all about putting it back into a hunting type situation.... try it prone over a daybag,or bipod.... you dont cart a lead sled up the hill after deer so its out.
I BELIEVE Dreamer shot unsupported 2 shots at 108 YARDS the first longer shot wasnt standing.....
So disgusted the our day I didn't retrieve the plate, 1 st shot yer beauty, fired 2 more and didn't see a hit. Back for a shot today recovered the plate so 2 out of 3 ait bad. Still a good challenge, swear I was better when I was younger, take a rabbit most times.
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That’s great shooting @Dreamer. What’s your plate size? Not that it matter since you’re in the middle. 👍
We’ll done @Micky Duck, that’s in the engine room.
As long as it’s a 200pound boar 😂
I been missing things as of late too!!!!!! as long as its not the plate LOL....
I was being a bit tongue in cheek re lead sled.....could have put,shooting bench,rifle vice, rail gun,25lb rifle and would still read the same.
unsupported shot = you plus rifle plus what you normally take hunting,the bipod is now pretty much standard for lots of folks,so its a bit of grey area as to if you still unsupported.
Think I found my missing 100m standing shot, the others were using full height home made shooting sticks, massive difference. Carry them always, doubles up as walking stick.
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Thanks @2post. The plate circle is 10 inches
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Greetings All,
It has been a lovely day so after lunch I made myself a dinner plate target (felt marker circle on paper 195mm dia) and had one shot at 100 metres. I fired sitting using a pair of sticks and the shot went 65mm high and 35mm right of center. The rifle had been roughly zeroed for this projectile, my practise load, and was shot today with a cold clean barrel. In spite of leaving my glasses in the shed and shooting over the sticks I felt pretty steady so I am asking myself.
Is the rifle shooting high because of the rough zero, the cold clean barrel or is it Grandpamac error? Would it be any different with my hunting loads? How would I go at 200 metres, 300 metres?
Honestly I don't know the answer but intend to find out.
Regards Grandpamac.
Just seen this thread.
I like this idea, its all good and well walking a shot onto a plate at LR, anyone can do that. But this is a true test of the cold bore first shot counts when in the field shooting at a deer.
I've been away on a hunting trip over the weekend. Had my 7mm SAUM, it hadnt been fired since shooting its last 2 deer a couple of months back. Anyway, late sat arvo my 'dinner plate' (red yearlings shoulder) was at 405 yards, I dialed up the required 4.5 MOA, held a very small amount for the light right to left breeze and fired.
My 'dinner plate' jumped and lurched forward into the adjacent scrub. I headed around and dropped down, and found the little red deer with a nice hole thru its nearside dinner plate, and a larger messier hole thru its offside dinner plate with a piece of lung hanging out of it. The dinner plate is now in pieces chillaxing in my beer fridge.
I was prone obviously, harris bipod, and i used my camera bag stuffed with my thick fleece gloves as a rear support under the back of the stock, just as I always do for a long-range hunting shot.
Seriously though, this dinner plate challenge is a good test of equipment and shooter. I paint 3" pink dots on my white gong plates, if I cannot hit that pink dot with a cold bore shot at 400 yards (max distance available at my local range) after pulling the rifle out of the gun bag then my equipment and/or me need some work.
I did something like this when my son in law started shooting
But used orange clay targets
Sets of nails to hold 5 clay targets spread on the range board
Made him shoot them off hand at about 25m until he could constantly hit them all
Then he would step back 10m more and do it again
He improved heaps in only a few sessions
Now he's quite capable even with my really big rifles
This is my boys dinner plate from a month ago (well it at least ended up on his dinner plate) about 80yards prone 243 win
He had never fired this rifle before and no adjustments have been made to this rifle setup in over 16 years
Says to me while getting behind the rifle should I aim for the crease of its shoulder again. Yep is my reply
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