What did you do at the range today?

[Gstallings]

Shot my best 4 shot group today with the 6.5cm load I been developing.

 

[Decker9]

A local shoot here the other day. Guess I shoulda came up .5 moa instead of the .25 I did. Still won me a pound of powder though!

6gt on a tikka

 

[TradLife406]

About a 100 rounds today through the trainer.
Worked on seated unsupported and supported.

Unsupported was a dumpster fire. Supported I was able to minic my prone groups.

On week three of a sinus infection from hell. So I had a box of Kleenex. Reset and prep included a nose blow after each magazine

Also shot my 88 tmk load I've been working on. Thing hammers 10 inside an inch. Also this is on like 1200 rounds without cleaning. Maybe even 13 at this point. Which as a dude who cleaned every 200 is eye opening.

 

[coyboi69]

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Shot my new Nomad TI XC and Maven RS 1.2
I will never shoot without a can again.
Groups shrunk about 25%, and I didn't need ears at all. And this scope is the shit!

What grip and stock is that if you don’t mind me asking

 

[NorthIdahoDude]

I discovered that if I never find any N555 ever again, that AA4350 makes a pretty good substitute in my 7x57. 10 rounds, under an inch, from a 7.75lb scope and all rifle, essentially identical (possibly even a hair better) to what I get from N555 and 162 ELD-X's. A bit slower (2625 instead of 2675), but not enough to matter to yee olde critters. Definitely doing the happy dance for this one.




30-06 and 165 GameKings and Varget, that drilled such a beautiful 5 round group in my back yard, fell apart hard with 15 rounds at the big range - not even going to post the garbage group it made. Back to the drawing board for that one.

 

[Bater]

Sure wish Accurate 4350 was more temp stable, I have quite a bit of it that I just load for fowler‘s/fire forming loads.

 

[Matt5266]

Didn't get any reloading done but picked up my new airlock nano and found a 8lb keg of Benchmark locally for $200 from a guy.

 

[NorthIdahoDude]

Sure wish Accurate 4350 was more temp stable, I have quite a bit of it that I just load for fowler‘s/fire forming loads.

I hunt between 35 and 65 F. I haven't checked A4350 against that range personally, but I'll be surprised if that's more than 30 FPS one way or another. If I was still in BC and hunting between -20 and 75 F, yeah, this would not be my winnah.

 

[mxgsfmdpx]

300 rounds of 22 Creed and 300 rounds of 6 creed. Mix of factory and hand loads testing extreme temps and hunting ammo loads for any issues with two newer suppressors (both guns using OG-6S’s).

No fuss at 110 air temps and 120+ ground temps. Suppressors melting vet wrap and ground too hot to place bare arms on it for shooting.

 

[wyosam]

I did a little “extreme ” heat testing on my 223 and 6 dasher. It was mid 70’s, sunny and ammo in my trunk all day while I was at work. Extreme heat is relative in coastal AK I guess. Everything tested ok except my 87gr absolute hammer load which was a bit hot, though the chamber was pretty hot when I ran those through. Ran a bunch through it, mostly 108vld and 77 Matchburners to see if they walk when hot. Both stayed within normal cone when waaaay past too hot to touch. Got a little smoke off the LS wild cover on OG6s.


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[wyosam]

300 rounds of 22 Creed and 300 rounds of 6 creed. Mix of factory and hand loads testing extreme temps and hunting ammo loads for any issues with two newer suppressors (both guns using OG-6S’s).

No fuss at 110 air temps and 120+ ground temps. Suppressors melting vet wrap and ground too hot to place bare arms on it for shooting.

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I don’t think that inhabitable by humans.


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[TradLife406]

Worked on seated unsupported. Yeah that's definitely humbling. Goal was to stay inside the large diamond. I'm getting better but it still needs work. Lots of work.

Also did some seated supported off the shooting sticks with my pack in the rear then a some with no pack.

Tried kneeling supported using one upright knee in the back. Yeah it's unethical for me to even shoot at a target in this position. Wobble zone was the entire target hypothetically the odds that I won't be caught with that as my only option is very slim. But I'll keep dry firing it.

Digging the old shooting sticks I used as a kid. Electric fiber rods ranger banded together. Though I was shooting in hard pack dirt and they don't grab well. But in prairie dirt they're money. So found one limitation to their use. But they're faster than trekking poles.

Also tried adding .5 grains to my 88 223 AI load. Shot ok with no pressure signs. But my es/ds went from 11.5 to 18.5 for 10. Then tried one shot at a grain over. Smoke rolled out of the closed action and my primer was cratered bad. First time I've done that. So we keeping the 26 grains of 540.

 

[bojangles808]

last range trip I got told not to shoot TMKs on the steel targets because they were "green tip" ammo and they would damage their steel targets lol I said sir I think you are confused but whatever, your range, your rules. ppl are funny

tested out some new lots of factory loads (bone frog TMKs and ELDM 108s ) and they'lll work out

 

[Q_Sertorius]

last range trip I got told not to shoot TMKs because they were "green tip" ammo and they would damage their steel targets lol I said sir I think you are confused but whatever, your range, your rules. ppl are funny

Morons.

 

[Chris in TN]

Morons.

Our local range has magnets mounted on the firing line. Every now and then you'll find a hole in a plate where someone assumed the best of their milsurp ammo. But the magnet is a handy way to prove your ammo if anyone calls you out on it, which I've never seen happen. I figure most steel-core gets blasted in the carbine bays, not on the rifle side.

I mowed the end of the range before work this morning here at home, and this afternoon I went to shoot and before I could walk to the range, a downpour started. So I fired one shot at ~280 then two shots at 450, all prone, then 3 shots at 450, seated behind sticks/poles. All centered, maybe 1.25moa, which tickled me with it raining so hard the target was blurred. I had no idea where I was hitting at 450 until I went to paint the target. I could see (and hear) the plate swing but that was all I could be sure of.

 

[bojangles808]

Our local range has magnets mounted on the firing line. Every now and then you'll find a hole in a plate where someone assumed the best of their milsurp ammo. But the magnet is a handy way to prove your ammo if anyone calls you out on it, which I've never seen happen. I figure most steel-core gets blasted in the carbine bays, not on the rifle side.

maybe I'll bring a magnet with me then next time lol. Fortunately I rarely go there, only when visiting family, but it's a great range which is disapointing. when I checked in the RO guy asked what I was shooting I said 6cm and 556 and showed him the bone frog 77 tmks. he's all "is this green tip? you can't shoot that "and I explained to him yes it has a green plastic tip but it's not what you think in terms of green tip ammo explaing its a plastic tip on a match king cup and core bullet. He was all ok that should be fine and I thought I was good to go but I guess he asked the owner and came back around when I was packing up and said he double checked and I couldn't shoot it. 68 grain frontier was shooting well for me so I had been shooting that the whole time and only shot a 10 round groups at the end to check precision with the bone frog. I showed him on Google is TMKs green tip ammo which explained via an AI response how it wasn't but he just said sorry that what my boss told me. I said all good, your rules your range and i'm leaving anyways and just left politely chuckling to myself.