What did you do at the range today?

[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.

 

[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.


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May have spoke too soon. 168 SMK's in Lapua brass over IMR4350 with CCI Mag primers. I had 10 loaded, but stopped here, not impressive at all (this is 50 yards, not 100). And frustratingly, in my backyard range, I have some unavoidable wobble left/right I can see in the scope, but I am pretty much rock solid up/down... and this walked vertically.

I will maybe try that original load in Lapua brass with better primers, but if IMR4350 and 168 SMK's don't shoot at least decent in a 30-06, I'll be kind of surprised if anything else shoots much better if given a larger sample size.

Sighs.

 

[Hondo64d]

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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Recently did much the same for my range. Haven’t had a chance to shoot off it yet though…. Maybe tomorrow…

John

 

[Austin Kaufman]

Recently did much the same for my range. Haven’t had a chance to shoot off it yet though…. Maybe tomorrow…

John

Looks awesome!! Good work!

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[CaribooBC]

CZ 600 Alpha 7.62x39 at 100m.

 

[Wprinkle]

Dug around in the bone yard and made some steel targets out of old feeder and dozer parts.
Set one ut at 940
Took 8 shots but got a hit with the .223 978 FPS at 940