What did you do at the range today?

[JohnJohnson]

Shot another 400 rounds of 9mm today. 240 through my Kuna and the other 160 through 3 different neglected pistols.

 

[PKR]

Verified zero on one rifle after swapping out rings. As well as some truing on data for that set up out to 1K.

As well as got to try out my new Tikka 6.5 PRC with NX8. Gotta say I’m really digging this gun and glad I went with it over the 300wsm I was considering. Also I really like the NX8.


Sighting in, prc 2 shots, then adjusted down and left, 2 more shots, factory 147 Hornady shot great out of this gun. Almost makes me not want to reload for it.


Then immediately took it out to 1100 and made a 3rd round impact. Grossly underestimated the wind, lol.

 

[TradLife406]

Ran 100 rounds through the Kimber Pro comp.
Cut the center out of the target at 15 yards.
Gun is too much fun.

 

[Austin Kaufman]

Did some load development with the 223 and some new bullets and then shot a few stages with the PRS gun for practice.


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[Matt5266]

Put together a load to try in my 243. Well see how the new 107 tmk shoot in my Tikka. (Pic of it and its baby brother the 77 tmk in a 223)

 

[Matt5266]

Well the wind was pretty bad and target was slightly moving about. Add in my suck factor as a shooter and groups are not great right now. Plan on loading 10 more of those and maybe drop a half grain and load 10 of those. And see when its no so windy. Last shots started trending right but wind was blowing to the left. So kinda wierd. Maybe it was me?

 

[Q_Sertorius]

Well the wind was pretty bad and target was slightly moving about. Add in my suck factor as a shooter and groups are not great right now. Plan on loading 10 more of those and maybe drop a half grain and load 10 of those. And see when its no so windy. Last shots started trending right but wind was blowing to the left. So kinda wierd. Maybe it was me?

What load are you using? In which rifle?

 

[Matt5266]

18" Tikka T3X 243 WIN 1:8 twist supressed

Can't remember exactly avg MV but it was right around 2850

Virgin Starline brass
Winchester LRP
41.5 Grain H4350
COAL 2.94"

 

[Tanner]

Gave @RancherJohn some real wind calls.

 

[RancherJohn]

Gave @RancherJohn some real wind calls. View attachment 1054319

Hell of a spot for a stain.

 

[Tanner]

Hell of a spot for a stain.

We’re all adults here, it’s part of life every month…

 

[Chris in TN]

We watched a historical fiction sort of movie last night with lots of muzzleloaders. Today after church the kids and I dragged out the old T/C Hawken and I demonstrated to them how unreliable caplocks could be when you'd fogged them with oil before the last time you stored it and then didn't fully remove the oil.

(Translation: I got lazy and it bit me in the butt with 3 misfires before it hang-fired the 4th try). After it finally fired once, it was smooth sailing from there on, until the wife came home and asked why her kitchen smelled like rotten eggs.

 

[Austin Kaufman]

Ran some more PRS stages with the 6 creed and the 223 this morning. 30 rounds on the creed and 50 on the 223. Beautiful morning with absolutely zero wind.


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[Q_Sertorius]

Getting ready for my next trip to the range.

 

[RockAndSage]

Getting ready for my next trip to the range.

Your 9.3 is magazine fed? What's the make/model?

 

[Q_Sertorius]

Your 9.3 is magazine fed? What's the make/model?

The Tikka M695 and Sauer 100 depicted there are both 9.3x62.

The Tikka is the more customized of the two right now. It weighs 10#, .2 ounces. It has custom bottom metal from PR Precision.

The Sauer is 8#, 14.4 ounces.

I had Karl Feldkamp trim them each to 18”.

 

[Austin Kaufman]

Shot 25 rounds out of the 6mm ARC this morning from the bipod and tripod out to 650. Loving the alpha brass for the ARC.


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[NorthIdahoDude]

Got annoyed and pissed off that my newly re-barreled Mauser in 7x57 isn't shooting particularly well. Earlier tests were about the same as this, and close inspection of the old bedding, I saw some cracks, so I just got through re-bedding it front and rear last week. I fully encased the recoil lug area, and then bedded where the rear tang sits on the bottom side only, ensured that no metal-to-metal contact between bottom metal and action was happening, barrel is free floated, etc. So, I was hoping for something happier today, but no joy.

This was N555 + 162 ELD-X in Norma brass; the same combo that hammered 15 rounds into a 0.84 MOA on my last outing with my Tikka 7x57, so I was expecting it to at least be not totally awful here. If I overlaid this group with the other group of 5 I shot in the same gun/same load today, it's closer to 2.25 MOA.

Obviously a number of things left to try, but I've honestly never had a gun that had already been reasonably bedded shoot like this, that I later got smartened up to shooting great, so I'm honestly pretty bummed at this point.