What did you do at the range today?

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


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Gonna mess around with these 108 elite hunters some more
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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.

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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.

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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.
 
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?
 

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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

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Shot another kraft drill today. This time with a tikka t3 7mm rem mag. The rifle weighs around 10.5 lbs and is "easy" to shoot prone. I wanted to compare positional shooting magnum versus lighter cartridge and see how i did.

The three prone shots are "sub half inch" and on the point of aim. Anything other than prone really shines a light on the recoil.

The other target is from the .243 a couple days ago. Same scope, same suppressor and very similar weight.
 

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Saturday I shot 105 loads through my 223 trainer. Most were from the PRS barricade shooting 10 round stages at 330-650 yard targets. Shot a few stages modified prone off pallets as well. Today I did some load development and then shot two quick stages with the 223 again.


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Shot 40 rounds of 6 CM, and 50 rounds of .223 at plates from 200 - 400.

Met two other club members. One of them his first time at this range. We talked about scopes, and I showed him a couple of SWFA scopes. The other fellow had a 240 Weatherby Mag, which I thought was an oddball choice but he seemed to like it.
 
Spun on a new 6CM barrel on my Tikka, so I did some load development today. H4350 and N555 are my tried and trued but gave some Superformance, Hunter, and 4831SC a go along with a few of the new 107TMKs. Superformance had a big ES of over 120fps but still gave a great group.
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Shot 60 rounds from the 223 trainer. A few off PRS barricade, the rest off of the tripod and prone out to 650 yards. Low winds made for a great time to shoot. It’s been super windy here. A few days ago I was holding 4.5 mils of wind to hit the 650 yard targets with the 223.
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Some lighter varmit load testing. Might make a coyote trip this spring.

60 gr vmax and 55 gr NBT 25ish gr of varget. Ten rounds were 1.6" with the vmax and 1.1" with the NBT. They'll work
 

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I put out five more pieces of steel for my walk through course. Today I’m flagging shooting positions.

That's got to be some of the best practical shooting situations you could ask for, in this walk-through course. Are these intended to be unknown distances for the people shooting the walk?
 
That's got to be some of the best practical shooting situations you could ask for, in this walk-through course. Are these intended to be unknown distances for the people shooting the walk?
Yes. All distances are unknown. I try to make them challenging, but not difficult. I also try to make them as close as possible to replicating shot on game in the field.
 
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