My 1000 yard experience.

[Buckshot85]

I’ll try not to be long winded, but I had a great time.
A local veteran, a Marine Scout Sniper, started an outdoor class from the beginner to the experienced.
I had done some 500 yard shooting way back when with my reliable Rem 700 .243win and taken a few animals beyond 400 yards.
Fast forward to my late 50s now and my eyes and ability have weakened. So, I wanted to get some help refreshing my memory and ability.
I booked a session with this gentleman. Entire range to ourselves.
My rifle, a suppressed Barrett Fieldcraft in 30-06. Scope is a Zeiss V6 3-18x50. Ammo is Barnes TTSX 180 grain factory ammo. Atlas bipod.
The suppressor was added recently and I was struggling with getting re-zeroed and accumulating data.
Anyway, we set up at 100 yards and I had a 3/8” group. Yes!
At 200 yards, my zero distance, I had a 3/4” group. A touch high so I adjusted my turret.
From that point we walked out in pretty quick fashion 100 yard increments, 3 shot groups.
I was shooting incredibly.
Jordan, the instructor, and I talked quite a bit. He said, “you know what’s going on and obviously shot plenty. Do you mind if I grab my rifle and shoot with you?” I said, hell yeah, let’s shoot. So we took turns letting the rifles cool and shooting.
He had mentioned that most guys show up with factory ammo and find out it starts to loose stability around 800 - 850 yards. So, that’s what I expected to see. Didn’t happen. At 900 I was still shooting under 1 MOA.
At 1000 yards we could not see or hear impacts. So I kept dialing up and down to see if I could get some feedback. I was at 32.25 MOA and dialed 4.5MOA for drift.
We decide to go look. The square target is 16”x16”. The diamond is about 24”x24”.
I hit 8 out of 11 times at 1000. My shots are high lighted in yellow.
I hesitated in posting this because there’s always the experts or asshats that gotta shit on someone for something, but decided what the hell.
I had a great time and now feel like I did 20 years ago. But, no excuses now!!!! Lol.
He and I were so impressed with a pencil barreled sporter and how it shot. It was 80 and humid. The Barrett’s have a fully bedded barrel channel. We thought we’d see it start to spread with a heating up pencil barrel with a suppressor hanging off the end. Never happened.
Anyway, it was fun and very encouraging.

 

[Matt5266]

Sounds like a great time! Thats what it's all about. Congrats!

 

[Pulleye16]

Very nice!

 

[Quandary]

I am guessing you are in Wisconsin north of Milwaukee. That grass looks familiar

 

[Kyguy]

The Fieldcraft was Forbes first or second foray into selling Ultralight Arms. I can't remember it if was Colt and then Barrett or Barrett and then Colt. The whole premise for that rifle is a stock that so stiff, it's stiffer than the barrel itself, so they are fully bedded to keep the barrel from walking as it gets hot. Forbes would use the same light hunting rifles on praire dog shoots and burn out the barrels with high volume shooting because barrels are cheap.

 

[Buckshot85]

The Fieldcraft was Forbes first or second foray into selling Ultralight Arms. I can't remember it if was Colt and then Barrett or Barrett and then Colt. The whole premise for that rifle is a stock that so stiff, it's stiffer than the barrel itself, so they are fully bedded to keep the barrel from walking as it gets hot. Forbes would use the same light hunting rifles on praire dog shoots and burn out the barrels with high volume shooting because barrels are cheap.

Well, it certainly did what they designed it to.
And the Barnes ammo performed.
I noticed the suppressor was loose after the 1000 yard shots. I didn’t check before like I had earlier. Might have shot a tad better. Nonetheless, I’m glad my gear performed and it was a bucket list check off.