What did you do at the range today?

[Q_Sertorius]

Another beautiful day, another trip to the range.

I started the day off with a confirmation group from my T3 .223. A couple of stragglers, but still a pretty nice group.

Then I broke out the T1X and shot 75 standing, 75 sitting unsupported, and 25 prone over backpack. Nothing remarkable. I know I should be more deliberate, but I have been having fun firing double taps. I think I need to start using different targets for the first and second shots. It’s not like 6” paper plates and pasties are expensive.
Standing.

Sitting - absolute garbage today

Prone

Then I shot twenty shots at the Carl Ross target. 15/20

I finished up at the 200 and 300 yard range shooting the 8” target from seated supported and prone over backpack. I went 20/20 at the 200 and 17/20 at the 300”.

 

[justinspicher]

I did a Kraft drill today and shot like absolute dog shit. I couldn’t seem to get comfortable, so I wasn’t very stable. Then I shot too fast, just to get it over with.

 

[Macintosh]

Recently pulled apart my heavy range gun, mixed and matched parts to make a “as light as I can get it” gun for point blank range hunting, and a second crossover gun for using around here, on trips west, and for the bulk of my practice.
Zeroed the crossover gun today. CTR action, light barrel threaded at 20”, lite mags, with a s&b scope and um rings, alterra stock. Zeroed, dialed a click right, and set the turret, and Im ready for practice season.
Still waiting on the fluted barrel to come back from threading to dial in the lw one.

 

[Mike D Texas]

Holly holy!
That’s legit 20” 300wm velocity with each of those bullets.
How’s the recoil?

Much less than the 300WM. Max charge on any of those loads was 55 grains.

 

[Tdurham7]

Went to the buddies place today and tried it out my new set up. Super happy with the results out to 400. Short range for a lot of you. Got to get out to a place that I can try it further

 

[mt terry d]

Worked on positions. Busted a few rocks.

 

[UnckleBob]

I let my son pop off about 40 rounds of 223 from my Tikka.
I tried out my Tikka 243 again. I love the very moderate recoil.

Weird thing: I used my 280AI to shoot a 3/4" group with Hornady ammo. Next, I seem to have missed the paper completely with two different factory loads. Time to make sure everything is torque'd down properly.

 

[hunterjmj]

Family went out and ringed steel for a couple hours. Was a good day. Kids love the that sound!

 

[Q_Sertorius]

Family went out and ringed steel for a couple hours. Was a good day. Kids love the that sound!

It’s addictive.

 

[Upstatepe]

Shot my new but used Browning Xbolt Max Long Range 7mm mag. I have custom built rifles that can't outshoot this factory gun.

 

[NWBLKTAIL]

Swapped scopes on my M70 243win with 8twist Mcgowen. Shots some groups and sighted back in.


Also found a new quiet place to test loads which always nice.



Gonna mess around with these 108 elite hunters some more

 

[justinspicher]

I readjusted the walk through course and put out some new targets. I have a total of ten pieces of steel out now.

 

[Chris in TN]

I had an emergency job to do this morning. Finished early. Rewarded myself with midday stress relief. Burned a box of .22lr at 125-250 yards seated then shot the 6.5cm one shot at 420 (the high hit) then one shot prone at 550 and 3 behind trek poles and arrow shafts, also at 550.

16” plate:

 

[Hondo64d]

I shot 30 rounds at the bench. 20 rounds checking .308 loads, and 10 rounds zeroing a heavy barreled AR15. Then shot another 22 rounds out of my .308 hunting rig over my multi position barricade. 3 rounds each from standing supported at 200, 300, 500, 600, 700, and 800. Took 22 rounds to get 18 hits.

John

 

[justinspicher]

I put out another steel target and had to move one of my existing targets. A deer had knocked it over.

 

[Chris in TN]

Over the last few months I had a steel plate with one mounting bolt that broke (I think the head popped off) and another that one of the chains broke. So today I pulled the plates, brought them to the barn, and repaired them - I used a screw link to fix the broken chain on the one, and on the other I just removed the other mounting bolt and replaced the mounting bolts with a 'cold shut' on each side, and used the vise to squeeze them shut. Then reinstalled them and the girls and I took turns shooting the 6.8 at 225 and 400 yards.

Also - I suspected it would happen eventually - I broke one of my arrow shafts. Not sure how it broke, probably got stuck under something in the back of the SxS. So that'll get replaced soon.

 

[Chet707]

Went out yesterday for a quick kraft drill. Second time shooting it, first time was with the 223 back in January. This time was with the m77 mkii .243.

Fired a total of 14 rounds. The first two were to try the thlr long range proficiency test and the 12 for the kraft drill. Made the same silly embarrassing mistake on both shots and didn't catch it until after they were wasted.

10" target at 594 yards, started standing with rifle and bag in hand, rifle chambered and on safe, scope caps on and un dialed. 1 minute timer 1 shot. Got into position, got natural point of aim, dialed 5.6 mils called wind at approx 4-6 mph left to right held for .5, missed high and slightly left. Saw the impact perfectly and thought that was weird maybe I hit the top of the target or stand and it deflected up. Reset and did the exact same thing a second time and expected different results(definition of insanity). Then I realized that I should have dialed 3.6 and not 5.6. On the plus side I broke both shots under time, had a good trigger press and spotted the impacts perfectly.

I then shot the remaining 12 shots at 100 yards for a kraft drill. All of the standing through seated were on a rickety bent ladder but it worked lol. All standing shots were on the outside, and got progressively tighter as I got closer to the ground (no surprise there). Total group size was centered over the aiming point so zero stays the same throughout all positions. Total group size was 2.25 inches.

I've heard before on podcast and rokslide that the average is around 3 or 4. Does anyone know if that 3 or 4 is diamond size or group size in inches?

 

[justinspicher]

I zeroed another 16” AR, had to replace a barrel…..

I also reset a few targets for Sunday Gunday with the boys.

 

[Wrench]

Played the wind.

 

[TNHighlands]

Testing 20 Ga TSS loads for turkey season at 40yds backer has alot of shots from a few guns. But, gonna be real tight if they come in close. Tss is wild