What did you do at the range today?

[doc holiday13]

Dang you guys have time to take photos. I had to chop up 5 trees to clear my range. but i did discover why old timers love wadcutters...perfect hole

 

[B_Reynolds_AK]

Hiked 4,000 ft on the night of the 13th to camp and shoot the Cold Bore Challenge over the course of the night/morning. Dinner as the sun set at just before midnight.



Then the next morning after shooting my second round, came off the mountain and drove to a different mountain range to meet up with @cronsman. Hiked another 2,000 ft to do some high angle shooting shooting. @cronsman didn’t realize that a fast twist 223 shooting 88 TMK’s was missing from his life, until now. He’s smiling, under the obligatory work required face blur.

 

[Coleredding00]

Hiked 4,000 ft on the night of the 13th to camp and shoot the Cold Bore Challenge over the course of the night/morning. Dinner as the sun set at just before midnight.
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Then the next morning after shooting my second round, came off the mountain and drove to a different mountain range to meet up with @cronsman. Hiked another 2,000 ft to do some high angle shooting shooting. @cronsman didn’t realize that a fast twist 223 shooting 88 TMK’s was missing from his life, until now. He’s smiling, under the obligatory work required face blur.


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You had no business making me this jealous

 

[Chris in TN]

Yesterday: peep sighted R513-T with my son at ~190 yards. The original dialing sight system.

Today: while the kids swam in the pond I shot .22lr (scoped) at 190 and 225 yards. Hitting an 8” plate at 225 most shots (maybe 17/20?) is gratifying.

That rifle’s scope has a SFP reticle. It has about 60moa of elevation in the reticle but at 10x only about 45 moa is really clear.

(Scope is a Meopta optika5 2-10, with the z-plus reticle. I love the center dot. Hate the rest of the reticle because it disappears in low light, but it’s a very useful plinking reticle).

Ballistic app said I needed ~69moa at 390 yards. That’s ~1.5x the 45moa I had available at 10x, so……..crank the scope down to a guesstimated 6.6x.

Pop……………ting!
Pop…………..ting!

I stopped at 2 shots. No use pushing my luck, and those were pure luck. Realistically with that ammo I’m looking at 6moa at that distance, mostly due to the velocity extreme spread. And there’s no way I could have spotted a miss with the target slightly shaded.

But yes, I went 2/2 at 390 yards with a .22lr.

Two tiny splashes at 9 and 12. 16” plate:

 

[Mule3006Elk]

Did cold/hot powder chrono testing for my new load.