I'm on a group text with some old hunting/shooting buddies and one of them linked us a video for a neat challenge. They call it the "test your limits" or "blackjack" 500 yard challenge and I spent some time watching them last night.
In the videos I saw, this challenge is done primarily with very heavy custom bench rest guns, shooting dialed in hand loads, with very stable rests/crazy weighted bipods, etc. I thought it would be fun to take a everyday hunting rifle out and see how it could do on this challenge.
I loaded up this morning and grabbed my gongs/stand and some fence wire, got setup on public land AZ and started videoing.
The challenge is to hit 12", 10", 8", 6", 4", and 2" gongs at 500 yards. If you hit all the targets you get what they call a "blackjack". I have my Tikka .223 dialed in and ready for my AK moose hunt in two weeks, so that rifle got the call this morning.
I didn't have a 10" gong handy, but the white portion of my 12" gong is 10". So I shot at that gong twice as my 12" and 10" shots. Also, one of my 6" gong wires had fallen off the stand by the time I hiked down and got setup. So I shot at the 8" gong twice for my 8" and 6" gong shots.
In the video I mentioned that the cactus was 473 Yards, when I laid down and ranged the 12" gong they were actually at 436 Yards. I wasn't going to try and move back to 500 as I already had a good shooting lane through the brush cactus and to make the shots, so I went with it.
Common field hunting shot, shooting off backpack, bino harness for rear rest. Factory Tikka .223 shooting factory Black Hills 77 TMK's, 20" barrel, Maven RS1.2 scope in UM rings, and of course the RokStok!
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In the videos I saw, this challenge is done primarily with very heavy custom bench rest guns, shooting dialed in hand loads, with very stable rests/crazy weighted bipods, etc. I thought it would be fun to take a everyday hunting rifle out and see how it could do on this challenge.
I loaded up this morning and grabbed my gongs/stand and some fence wire, got setup on public land AZ and started videoing.
The challenge is to hit 12", 10", 8", 6", 4", and 2" gongs at 500 yards. If you hit all the targets you get what they call a "blackjack". I have my Tikka .223 dialed in and ready for my AK moose hunt in two weeks, so that rifle got the call this morning.
I didn't have a 10" gong handy, but the white portion of my 12" gong is 10". So I shot at that gong twice as my 12" and 10" shots. Also, one of my 6" gong wires had fallen off the stand by the time I hiked down and got setup. So I shot at the 8" gong twice for my 8" and 6" gong shots.
In the video I mentioned that the cactus was 473 Yards, when I laid down and ranged the 12" gong they were actually at 436 Yards. I wasn't going to try and move back to 500 as I already had a good shooting lane through the brush cactus and to make the shots, so I went with it.
Common field hunting shot, shooting off backpack, bino harness for rear rest. Factory Tikka .223 shooting factory Black Hills 77 TMK's, 20" barrel, Maven RS1.2 scope in UM rings, and of course the RokStok!
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