What did you do at the range today?

[justinspicher]

Yesterday I did some more tripod work with a buddy, we shot at 350-360 yards at various plates. I shot 20 rounds for the session.

 

[Steve300xcw]

Tossed some h1000 behind 108 eld's for the 243. I'm really liking what that looks like. Course this new barrel really likes my old load of rl22 and a 105bthp....

Played with the sweede a bit more. Seems to like 143's over the 147's

Even took the time to do some donuts

 

[Ishootgunssometimes]

Practiced in some snow and wind.

7 saum
175 EH @ 2700 fps
500 yd
2.9 mil up
0.5 mil right

Forced myself to stay at 8x as well.

 

[Roadrunner1]

Went out at 5am took 3 rifles, two to develop loads and one to check zero. Set up with one light at the target and another light at the bench, was done in 45 minutes and it was still dark when I got home.

 

[KY_coop]

Last weekwent out and shot some different loads for the nrl rifle. 147 eldm's turned a not super accurate barrel into a shooter for this year! Also a 6 arc group after i added a swfa 3-9

Today went out to the range again to walk a buddy out to 500 with his new seekins. Also finished some 162gr load testing for my 284 win. Had some 180gr rds left in the box so shot them to make sure the scope was close. ( just reassembled the rifle)

 

[justinspicher]

Swapped some suppressors around and checked poi vs zero. Nothing crazy.

 

[Chris in TN]

Swapped some suppressors around and checked poi vs zero. Nothing crazy.

I sort of did that yesterday - I'd removed the can from the kids' 5.56AR so I could use it on my 6.8 for a couple days. Remembered why I don't hunt with it anymore (the side charging 5.56 upper has ruined me on conventional charging handle guns, for hunting deer) and stuck it back on the 5.56. Shot three shots to check. Still dead on at 225.

Also, this is hardly a full proper test, but the kids shoot enough of the 5.56/77TMKs for me to set my powder dispenser up to throw charges instead of weighing each one. I did that the other day then used those thrown-charge loads to check zero. Previous average velocity was 2575'. Three shots with the thrown charges were 2583, 2587, and 2561. That's 23.0 of Benchmark in 1x AAC brass. Not a sufficient test, but more than enough to make me comfortable for the last week of deer season.

 

[Hunt4lyf]

Been hitting the indoor range a lot lately, mostly a Ruger American 22 but I work in a centerfire most days also.

My old savage 25-06, 100 gr TTSX, 10 shots pretty quick, that one high shot pissed me off, I pulled the shot which made the group just under 2”, otherwise it would’ve been 1.25” which is what that rifle shoots consistently.



I’ve been using the 22 to get in reps since it’s cheap and it shoots pretty good.

50 yds off the bench



I’ve been shooting a lot off hand, normally 50 rds at 50 yds averaging 85% in a 7 moa circle, this time I shot a 7 moa circle at 100 yds averaging 62% in the circle, so I’ve got some work to do.