What did you do at the range today?

[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

 

[justinspicher]

Did a mag of standing offhand at 50 and 100 yards with a buddy.

 

[Q_Sertorius]

Did a mag of standing offhand at 50 and 100 yards with a buddy.

You are getting a lot of trigger time.

 

[justinspicher]

I try to shoot everyday after work. The range is literally across the street.

 

[Jamie930]

Did some load development for my AR trying Hornady 73ELD and 75HPBT.
Max load of H4895 and 73 ELD won
.8" 10 shot group at 100yds

 

[Chris in TN]

Prone this morning. From standing/slung I went prone, hit the 3moa,5MOA,7moa, swung the gun to the 70 yard ball, hit, then back to the 3moa for the fifth shot. Miss.

Hit the first 4. Missed the 5th shot. 13 seconds to first shot, 33 total. I dropped several seconds because I couldn’t see the target with the scope cranked to 2x. My mistake, but more of a problem on the range than in the field. I try to leave big game scopes set on at least 4X-6x for that reason.

 

[Austin Kaufman]

Checked dope and speed on my NRL gun. Shot 4 stages of practice off the barricade with my PRS gun, then the same stages with my 223. Finished off with 100 rounds plinking small targets between 50-150 with my 22 LR Ruger precision.


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[Q_Sertorius]

I had an excellent morning at the range today. I took my two Sauer 100s (6.5 CM and 9.3x62) and my CZ 457.

I’m still trying to find the right load for the 6.5 CM.

Today, I tried the Fiocchi 129-grain SP, Hornady 129-grain SST, Hornady 120-grain ELDM, and shot the S&B 156-grain load again.

The Fiocchi was thoroughly unsatisfactory.

The 129-grain SST was significantly better, but still not worth much of anything. I didn’t include the first shot in this group as part of the group because it was so outside the group. That was the first shot of the day with this ammo. I am assuming that was a gross error on my part.

That ammo just isn’t worth further consideration anyway.

The 120-grain ELDM shows greater promise, but not what I expect out of this rifle. Here is the 10-shot group:

And here is the 20-shot group.

The 156-grain S&B remains the best so far, with one 1.79” group and one 2.25” group.

Note also the five shots from the Sauer 100 9.3x62. I flinched badly on the third shot. This rifle isn’t suppressed yet. The blast and kick are tremendous. I was wearing ear plugs, headphones, and had a stocking cap on. I still have a bit of a headache from it. The PPU factory 285-grain is giving me 2185 FPS. I think I am going to cut it down to 18”, thread it, and count on my AB Raptor 10 to mitigate some of the side effects.

 

[Q_Sertorius]

In between 10-round groups with the 6.5 CM, I used the CZ 457 for 50-yard offhand and seated unsupported practice.

100 rounds offhand:

100 rounds seated:

Those are 6” paper plates with 1” dots and 3.5” “vitals”.

 

[Austin Kaufman]

I ran 4 mock NRL hunter stages. I gave myself 2 minutes to range(I knew where targets were) and engage the targets. I did 2 targets 2 positions, 4 targets 1 position. Ranges varied from 650 to 350. 12 and 10 inch rounds further out and 8 and 6 inch up closer. Cleaned the stages with my comp gun and then I dropped 4 shots with my 223. Ran a few PRS style stages with my comp gun off my barricade as well. Dropped a few on those.


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[Chris in TN]

So I was told to remove the contact lens from my right eye a week before my doc appointment next week to see if I'm a good candidate for cataract removal and lens replacement surgery.

First thought: I'll take a week off from shooting.
Second thought: I'll shoot weak side instead. Perfect opportunity.

I've shot .22lr seated off trek poles and prone w/bipod a few rounds every day since removing the contact (I think that was Thursday?). Prone left-handed is awkward for me, certainly slower than right-handed, but not terrible.

Today it was warm enough to get the tractor running, plus the 4-wheeler and chainsaw, and I cleared the 50 yards I needed to stretch my range from 500 to 550 yards. That's done - I chainsawed all the little trees and shrubs and then pushed it all out clean-ish with the tractor then used the sprayer on the 4-wheeler to spray everywhere that I'm worried about regrowth. Next week I'll sow some grass seed back there too.

From 550 yards, seated. The bench you see is my old 500-yard bench. Above it and to the left, the white dot is my 500 yard plate (now 550).



I went back right before dark and shot the 6.5cm prone and left-handed a few shots. With no right contact lens, dialing was a pain (had to use my reading glasses to see to dial) and it made me realize that my slightly nearsighted right eye (when I have contact in it) has been allowing me to read the scope dial. Can't do that with just my left eye.

 

[thinhorn_AK]

Just a quick 20lbs through one of my 6.5 creedmoors. Just shot out to 300 off the bench, I havn’t shot for a few weeks now.

Scythe still didn’t blow up.