I ranged it yesterday. 161 metres.
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Took 5 rifles out for a dinner plate shoot this morning, weather perfect , no wind to speak of. I went to a spot i could get 400 yds but the trees have grown a bit so only managed 325 yds which for this was good enough. I used my day pack and bush shirt rolled up under the butt for support similar to field shooting. 1 shot from a clean cold bore for each.Attachment 200686Attachment 200687
As you can see the 223 was quite a bit low but the rest were all good. Last time i used the 223 i hit a small (6 inch ) gong at 200 yards twice so not sure what was going on but after the dinner plate challenge I re sighted it in and it was 2 MOA low, now it is about 1.6 inch high at 100 yards. Certainly pays to check your zero on a semi regular basis otherwise you could get caught out.
Nice @Mooseman it can be a bit of an eye opener eh.
Greetings All,
It dawned fine, clear and calm again in HB today so time for another crack at the challenge. Today the subject was my T3 6.5x55 shot sitting at 198 metres using my Pole Cat sticks. As far as I can remember the rifle was zeroed for the current load at 200 metres. The shot was dead on for windage and 90 mm low, just inside my 195mm circle. The circle was a little hard to see through my 6 power scope so I will fatten up the line for next time. Any shots I take in the field are likely to be sitting with the sticks so some testing is on the cards for any impact shift between the bench and them. This is a good and interesting test which I will repeat every range session from now on. Photo is from the shootong position with the cell phone zoomed up as far as it will go.
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Gonna give it a go with the 44 and red dot ,then with the peep sights fitted,should be interesting..
Greetings Again,
Finally worked out how to whittle down the size of my photo's so here is my dinnerplate target.
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Not a dinner plate shot, but that’s were it ended up. Barrel was fouled on the drive down.
Cold bore 561 yds. Off my Molly Me.
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I’m fortunate enough to be able to verify on a 1m x 1m plate at 565 or 615 yds.
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the strap wont effect a thing UNLESS you put pressure on it.....loads of early safari type rifles had sling mounted there,had a barrel band on them for it...has advantage of sitting lower on your shoulder when slung.
I have three gongs set up permanently on farm and if I have rifle with me I'll randomly stop and do a quick drill, prone but unsupported at a 6" gong at 260yds, then a 10" gong at 440 and one at 530 off a rolled up jacket or whatever I have available at the time, hit the 260 100% of the time, 440 nearly everytime and the 530 I'm reasonably consistent on it's just the wind that plays games with me shooting a .333 BC 243 bullet
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Finally got a day without wind try this. Random ranges from high points on the farm.
My 6 year old had to have a go too…wasn’t keen to just have one shot though! Haha. Pretty proud of his efforts, takes ages to get on target but does well.
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Interestingly, I was checking my 6.5 PRC last week on a gusty day and thought it was shooting to the left so adjusted for that. Probably should have left it given these results…
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Took my 223 , 6.5x55 and 300 WM out today for a try at the standing 100 yds, surprised myself although the 300 WM was low I new I was low when I touched off. Its a bit hard as all my rifles are high at 100 yds so I was trying to compensate by aiming a little lower, pretty happy with the results.Attachment 201264
Took the 6.5 prc out this morning, havent shot it in ages and would be over a year since I shot it over 200y I think.
Picked out the dinner plate gong at the range at 475y 10deg up and lay on the sharp frosty gravel in the driveway bipod and no rear bag.
First round hit high center, second round same.
Possibly shooting a bit high because bipod on hard ground or no rear bag or combination of both but I wanted to see what would happen just throw it on the ground and shoot.
In the feild if shooting any sort of distance I would be trying to build a better position and using clothing or pack or whatever to get some better support.
Don't do a lot of off hand shooting (apart from under 30 or so yards bush shooting) Here's my dinner plate challenge, 147m offhand holding a spotlight and trying to climb out of a side by side, right in the sweet spot :)
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Only just seen this thread and it has been a good read. Hopefully will get out soon and give this a go but have recently had a chat with a mate about my max range. Have a 308 that I can put 3 shots into 1 hole with at 100m in a paddock then took it out to 400m(shooting uphill, into the sun and up a gully with a x wind). Ended up firing 2 shots into about 2" at that range(bang on elevation but didn't allow for wind) so was pretty chuffed. Ended up taking a 660m~ shot about a month or so later which i missed . That reinforced my self imposed limit of 500m with that rifle which is what I am going to do the dinner plate challenge on when I get the chance to see if I am competent or if I need to reduce my max range.
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245m....yeah you hit it in the neck LOL....
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The mighty Rossi puma with the trs red dot..dead deer all day long!
10 shots standing, mixed ammo, military ball/150 and 180 grain reloads. Target is 30 cm in diameter, sp a bit bigger than a paper plate?
Very good shooting.:thumbsup:
Earlier this week I finalised in theory a 6.5*55 load using sierra 140grain gamechanger bullets and today with fair weather conditions I went to Rotorua NZDA 300metre range to test it. Strelok predicted 2 1/4 moa elevation off my 220 metre zero. Labradar confirmwd MV @ 2764'/sec. I was very pleased with the proof group of 25mm - 0.29moa shooting prone off pack; no sling and my left fist supporting the toe of the stock. Rifle Schultz and Larsen Victory and scipe @ 12X
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I also rechecked my zero for my go to Sgk sbt 140 load at 300m and it gruipwd .57moa. :) Pleasing.
It's a perishable skill shooting offhand. I've been devoting more time to it after following this thread. It's not all downsides either - you get less felt recoil than when you're prone (my opinion). I actually got away with my old field target air rifle position using my 45-70. Just don't hold it for more than say 10 seconds tops. Take a rest and try again, close your eye and check if you're naturally on or do you need to adjust your feet?
I built a tall target to check drops against strelok.
3 @405m, over a pack and with a very light l-r wind. strelok predicted 90cm drop - looks pretty good to me.
Finally got to the range again to try this out. Did a zero session for both my rifles then tried this, so not clean bore, and a bit of heat mirage going on. I had both rifles set to 5x. As is evidenced by the left plate (completely missed with the .308) I don’t do a lot of standing unsupported shooting, I prefer a quick drop to the knee, which I did on right hand target.
This is 100m with a bit of headwind. Anything out to 200 I’m happy to shoot off the knee, but any further out I usually have time to go prone and shoot off my pack.
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