Wasn’t sure I’d get this in due to my schedule, but decided to head down to the family ranch to make it happen this weekend. MER 500.
The gun:
- Sig Cross Sawtooth 18” 6.5 Creed
The gear:
- Gunwerks Elevate 2.0 bipod
- NF NX8 2.5-20x
- LS Wild bag
- Filmed with Swaro ATC
- Why the brake? Going to hunt sheep in Canada in 6 weeks, so no can. Otherwise, my Scythe Ti lives on it.
The target:
The ammo:
- Palmetto’s 140 gr Sabre Black tip. Average MV of 2515 (I put a few more rounds over the chrono after snapping the pic).
The shot:
- Day 1: Calm, cool morning after hours of wind all night. 63* and slight breeze at my back. Set up steel at the bottom of the canyon and found a place I could shoot down from. Ended up being 513 yards. Correction was 12 minutes. **HIT!**
Day 2:
Spend most of the morning thinning out prairie dogs and once I had managed 125 of them, I decided it was time to let the AR barrel cool haha. I had my steel with me and set up the target. Drove to an outlook and ranged it at 535. Temp was warmer at 80* at around noon. Correction was 12.9 minutes. Left to right wind at about 5 MPH, I ended up holding left edge of the plate and sent it. **HIT!**
The brake makes spotting shots easy at the bench, but I hadn't shot with this in the field prone prior to this weekend. It really sends dirt/debris back in my face. I have a 338 diameter Hellfire 3 port brake I might toss on this just to see if helps mitigate this. I really don't need a brake for this rifle, but spotting impact is nice. Again, after my sheep hunt, the suppressor goes back on this permanently haha.
The gun:
- Sig Cross Sawtooth 18” 6.5 Creed
The gear:
- Gunwerks Elevate 2.0 bipod
- NF NX8 2.5-20x
- LS Wild bag
- Filmed with Swaro ATC
- Why the brake? Going to hunt sheep in Canada in 6 weeks, so no can. Otherwise, my Scythe Ti lives on it.
The target:
The ammo:
- Palmetto’s 140 gr Sabre Black tip. Average MV of 2515 (I put a few more rounds over the chrono after snapping the pic).
The shot:
- Day 1: Calm, cool morning after hours of wind all night. 63* and slight breeze at my back. Set up steel at the bottom of the canyon and found a place I could shoot down from. Ended up being 513 yards. Correction was 12 minutes. **HIT!**
Day 2:
Spend most of the morning thinning out prairie dogs and once I had managed 125 of them, I decided it was time to let the AR barrel cool haha. I had my steel with me and set up the target. Drove to an outlook and ranged it at 535. Temp was warmer at 80* at around noon. Correction was 12.9 minutes. Left to right wind at about 5 MPH, I ended up holding left edge of the plate and sent it. **HIT!**
The brake makes spotting shots easy at the bench, but I hadn't shot with this in the field prone prior to this weekend. It really sends dirt/debris back in my face. I have a 338 diameter Hellfire 3 port brake I might toss on this just to see if helps mitigate this. I really don't need a brake for this rifle, but spotting impact is nice. Again, after my sheep hunt, the suppressor goes back on this permanently haha.
