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.

 

[TradLife406]

Backyard pack drop to prone drills.
Well until my neighbors started milling around lol. Last thing I need is the cops showing up asking why I'm dry firing.
Did pretty good though. Around 16 seconds from "target" to the shot.

 

[NorthIdahoDude]

Tested 8 rounds of 2 different loads in my Rem78/Shilen 30-06. This is a continuation of my seemingly never-ending quest to get H4350 to not suck in one of my guns. The new thing this time around is Federal 215M (Magnum+Match) primers, which are (in theory) a lot hotter than the CCI LR or BR2 primers I've been using. In backyard chrony testing, I got actually substantially lower velocity with the 215M, but vastly lower ES and SD.

180 Sierra GameKing (the old school soft point boattail)
H4350 (an apparently extra-fast lot, given that I get a lot more than book velocity out of my loads)
Lapua Brass
Federal 215M primers (new for me)
3.244 OAL (.050 off the lands in my gun)

Group one was 53 grains of powder; did not chronograph, but GRT has been pretty dead on for this load, and so almost certainly in the very low 2700-something range (2715 or so) This looks kinda promising actually. 8 rounds does not a proof make, and .42 mean radius is mediocre, but it's not awful either, so that's good. Hasn't fully finished off being a round group yet, but looks like that's what it wants to do.




And this one is 55.3 grains, i have chrnoy'd this one, and it's right at 2827 FPS (+/- 4.5 FPS - yes, 9 FPS ES). This is a composite of a 5 and a 4 shot group overlaid - I had one flier (upper right), that I honestly didn't feel like was me, so I'm counting it. Mean Radius isn't as tight either, so this looks a bit too hot. If I tweak my Ba value in QuickLoad to get it to match my velocity at 53.3 grains, it says I'm up around 64 KPSi range, which is hotter than I'd want to leave it anyway.