RockAndSage
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I'll bet that was some great practice. Trail setups can be a lot of fun like that.
What did you do at the range today?
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I'll bet that was some great practice. Trail setups can be a lot of fun like that.
justinspicher
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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.
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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.
I’m going to try Win244 next.
RockAndSage
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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.
Baer, as in Les Baer? I see the 1911 mags. But thought you were talking about your AR. Now I’m curious
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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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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.
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
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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.
He vastly improved from yesterday. The focus for today was getting into positions efficiently.
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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.
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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.
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.
