What did you do at the range today?

[Chris in TN]

What I did at the range yesterday: walked back about 50 yards behind my bench to see if it’s possible to clear a second shooting position to get 550 yards.

I can go a little further the other way but I can’t build a new backstop. Can’t get equipment behind the existing backstop due to the rock formations back there. I could hang a big steel plate, but not necessarily right at 600 yards. It might be 575 or 625. The hill peaks at what would make about 635. But anything beyond 550 would be of value. Whether it’s worth the expense, I don’t know. I sort of have a stairstepped rock face back there and to gain any yardage I have to either find a place where a target can be backstopped by a flat rock face for safety reasons, or don’t do it. Not sure it can be done.

If I had 600 yards there’d be no need to keep paying range memberships. I do sometimes shoot 600-750-1000 there and once in a great while I’ll shoot 1250, but it’s purely for fun, not realistic hunting practice. If I could do 600 from home that would be awesome.

Leaving my yard to walk it out, I shot 3x at a ~3.5” spinner offhand at 50 yards. Hit it twice. Then while I was out walking I fired two shots at 100 standing offhand. Snapped a picture of the results (16” plate).



I’m pretty happy with that but I’d be lying if I said I could do it every time. I picked off a squirrel the other day offhanded at maybe 25 yards but I’d be pretty happy if I never shot completely offhanded at a big game animal again unless it’s within 50 yards.

 

[Wrench]

Played a game of 7-1100 yard pig shooting bird shit off of rocks.

 

[NorthIdahoDude]

Ran the first 4 rounds of 30-06 through my new Shilen AlterNut barrel mounted on my Remington 78 action. I would have loved to run more, but these were the last 4 rounds of 30-06 I had on hand (yes, I know, shame on me, LOL). These weren't even top shelf loads by any stretch, WLR-M primers (mighty hot for stick powder), a full case of some AmericanReloading powder they say is "similar to N160" (I'm not sure it is at all N160 like, LOL), some R&P brass I picked up at the range and reloaded without measuring or sorting, and some 150 AccuBond's (factory seconds) stuffed to 3.340 OAL.

Anyway, 4 rounds is no big sample size, so this could all go to hell next trip, but -- those loads weren't (even close) to the best high accuracy thing I ever loaded up either, and I typically loose about 1/4 MOA off what I can do at a real range when shooting in my backyard like this, so - I'm feeling like this barrel is gonna work out great! For round one with this barrel/setup, I could not be happier!

Also note, the 1 not touching the other 3 was the first shot from the cold/never-before-fired bore of a freshly assembled rig, and my point of aim wasn't exactly perfect, given the lack of a defined center-point in my drawn on dot.

 

[Q_Sertorius]

I sighted in my Tikka 9.3x62 on Thursday evening. It’s got a nice heavy push to it as far as recoil is concerned. I need to dial up another 0.5 mils. I also need to make sure I check that the suppressor is tightened as I keep shooting it, but apart from that, I think I have a reasonably decent rifle. I think the suppressor started to wiggle loose around shot 6, possibly while I was reloading I grabbed it wrong or something.

The ammo was slow (a bit lower than the advertised 2265 muzzle velocity).

 

[BLJ]

Found a zero shift with the Athlon on the 308 yesterday. Not great.


Shot the 22 at 50 today. Made me feel better.

 

[justinspicher]

I built some new targets for the range this week and today I went and set up a walk through for tomorrows Sunday Gunday.

 

[Q_Sertorius]

I went to the range on this cold rainy afternoon, but I left half the things I wanted to use. No Garmin, no backpack, no binocular carrier, no gloves, no coat. That sort of disrupted my plans, but I decided to go ahead and shoot what I had. I couldn’t get into the range for most of the past month due to heavy snow.

I started off shooting 50 shots offhand with my CZ 457 at a 6” plate 50 yards away. I originally had a black dot for a fine aiming point, but it fell off so I said to hell with it. I was also supposed to trace a line around the center of the plate, but I forgot my marker. I shot very fast.

After shooting the first 50 shots, I started testing factory ammo in my Sauer 100 6.5 CM. After the first five shots from the Sauer, I reloaded my .22 magazines, then shot the second 50 after the next five 6.5 CM shots. So, the target above had 100 shots taken at it offhand.

The Sellier & Bellot 156-grain SP seems the most promising option so far. I was feeling really good after the first six, but of course that could not last.

The 156-grain load outshot the 131-grain load (not even worth posting that one up). Still more testing required.

I hope to get back there later this week and try out the others.

 

[justinspicher]

I completed a walk through course today with a couple of buddies. We had 6 stations with a total of 18 targets. Distances ranged from 150-460 yards.

 

[RockAndSage]

I completed a walk through course today with a couple of buddies. We had 6 stations with a total of 18 targets. Distances ranged from 150-460 yards.

I'll bet that was some great practice. Trail setups can be a lot of fun like that.

 

[justinspicher]

I had a blast. We have been doing a Sunday Gunday for about a month now. We got everyone on track with shooting in various positions and ranging, reading wind and such. Today was the first walk through course I have set up out there with any distance. Over the course of the week I will reset the targets and have a new course next Sunday.

 

[Woolley Bugger]

Discovered that neither 2.7 grains nor 2.9 grains of Accurate Nitro 100NF behind a 147 grain plated RN bullet will cycle the action on my Glock 17. I’m hesitant to go above 3 grains because that’s over the limit for some comparable bullets, despite achieving speeds of less than 900 fps.

I’m going to try Win244 next.

 

[RockAndSage]

Discovered that neither 2.7 grains nor 2.9 grains of Accurate Nitro 100NF behind a 147 grain plated RN bullet will cycle the action on my Glock 17. I’m hesitant to go above 3 grains because that’s over the limit for some comparable bullets, despite achieving speeds of less than 900 fps.

I’m going to try Win244 next.

Winchester 231 has been my go-to for decades for 9mm, .40, and .45. It's a tremendously versatile pistol powder, with a ton of load data out there.

 

[Pookie]

50yd zero on G 11.5/NX8/Hux Can, 210rds through Baer. The Baer has had zero stoppages or malfunctions and is just a dream to shoot. I can stack rounds unsupported with irons at 30yds with that thing with very little effort.

 

[43.6N]

50yd zero on G 11.5/NX8/Hux Can, 210rds through Baer. The Baer has had zero stoppages or malfunctions and is just a dream to shoot. I can stack rounds unsupported with irons at 30yds with that thing with very little effort.

Baer, as in Les Baer? I see the 1911 mags. But thought you were talking about your AR. Now I’m curious

 

[Austin Kaufman]

I built a prs barricade for my personal range last week. Put it up during the week and on Saturday my wife and I shot 150 6 creeds and 200 223s out of the trainer. Pretty nice having that addition to shoot from. Went out before church Sunday and shot 50 more from the creed, and 30 more this morning. Have an NRL match this weekend and then PRS the following. Been pretty fun getting into more matches.


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[Pookie]

Just finished letting my little girl shoot my new AR...she dumped 30 rounds and wanted to keep going. Being new to AR’s, I had no idea they would be this fun to shoot. My daughter loves it too. We are about 70 rounds lighter now. Good times

 

[elsb0048]

Went out originally intending to try for first round hits from more seated positions and maybe try for an opportunity to shoot in a steeply angled situation.
2950' elevation, ~35F. Calm to slight (5mph?) wind mostly quartering from behind me.

Forgot my shooting sticks and so ended up shooting prone of a pack mostly so I could film to track impacts on the tripod.
The snow was a little unexpected but it woulda been nearly a 2hr trek to turn around for the lower elevation shooting spot.

Missed high on my first shots at both 400 yds and 570 yards by maybe ~.2-.4mil? . I thought I had my drops sorted out to true velocity OK from my last couple range days getting out to 680 & 440 so I'll have a little figuring out to suss out what went wrong here. Honestly this is only my 3rd or 4th time ever shooting past 300 yds so could be lots of errors on my part.

Wondering if it's common to get bad ranges in bright snowy conditions? I'm using a leica CRF 2400-R.
I seems possible that I or the rangefinder have a hard time distinguishing the white plate from the white background or something more sophisticated there. I was scanning a little bit vertically but didn't think to actually write down the adjacent ranges 'above' and 'below' to check against later.

I rechecked my zero at 110yds after trying first round hits at the longer distances.
mean POI is ~.1-.15 mil lower than recent checks, the last couple zero checks have been ~.3-.5inch low and I'm 0.9 inch low here.

 

[justinspicher]

I went back out today with a buddy and we re-shot my walk through course. We did two rounds/target, six station for a total of 18 rounds.

He vastly improved from yesterday. The focus for today was getting into positions efficiently.

 

[Chris in TN]

The focus for today was getting into positions efficiently.

Heck yeah! The last 1/4moa of accuracy, reticle type, cartridge choice, ammo trajectory, and a whole bunch of other stuff, will almost never matter as much as figuring out the best option among the options at hand and making it happen.

On that note I got a resupply of CCI SV for the .22lrs Saturday night so that's my focus for the next few days.

 

[Chris in TN]

So I have a drill I’m doing that I can do 30’ from my front door.

I have a set of 3 spinners for .22LR. With them stuck at 50 yards they’re about 3moa, 5MOA, and 7moa. Then I have a hanging rubber ball at 70 yards. Maybe 4.5-5MOA? I haven’t measured the ball.

Did it just now before I head to work - starting with rifle slung and trek poles/arrows in hand, poles collapsed already, from standing ‘go’, 29 seconds to first round on the 3moa spinner, then the 5MOA, then the 7moa, then back to the 3moa, then I have to swing the entire gun and rest about 15 degrees to shoot the 70 yard ball. 51 seconds total, 5 hits for 5 shots.

I’d like to have some smaller targets and may do that soon, but this .22 is realistically a 2.5MOA gun (~1” at 40 yards) and if I go much smaller I’ll be pushing things.

I don’t want my follow up shots to be on bigger targets, I just want them on different aiming points, and that’s what I have for now.

The other day I did the same drill prone. I had a different scorekeeper with me (my 9yo) and he stopped the timer at my first shot - 9 seconds, hit, on the 3moa spinner, from standing to prone w/bipod. Much faster, but prone is only so useful in brush.

I’m hitting the 7moa target offhand about 60% of the time. That’ll likely never be my strong point.