7mm-08 @ 400 yrds

sealhunter

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So the plan today was that I would shoot "the gong" (Homemade of course :D)
at 400, 500 and 600 trds with the 7mm-08.

Aside from the fact that I wanted to record it, and obviously my camera is not good enough for a decent vid, my gong was the s**ts too!

So I only got 400 yrds.

But tomorrow I will have another Gong made, this time it will actually 'GONG' !!! :D

Shooting 140 gr TTSX for first 5 rounds, and 140 gr TSX for the last 5 rounds.
Bullets are sitting on Varget and CCI large Rifle primers.

Conditions,...light breeze left to right..


I'm not a great target shooter as you will see from my group, but I will shoot to 500 yrds on an animal and feel my groups are good enough for that.

At 600 yrds, the groups aren't too bad, but I won't let fly at an animal at that range...not enough confidence and I need to switch up bullets, so just paper at 600.

Anyhow, here's the crappy vid..

Vid should get better in 15 min or so, but here it is..


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If you want something that the bullets won't go through, you should cover your next pan with the hide of a big alberta buck, I hear it is so tough that bullets will just bounce of it.
 
Good enough to kill a moose or elk with...:cheers:

I bought one of these armour plate gongs from a CGNer for $60, works pretty good...

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archie_james_c said:
Very nice. What position exactly? Im assuming thats your Sako 7-08?
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Yeah...

The difficult part is that the gong was moving with the wind and after the couple of good flip arounds, I guess I could have waited a bit for it to settle.

I could see it moving from the wind and the 2 0r 3 bigger hits and could follow it moving . but for 6 or 7 shots,..I didn't se it move, though it was hit...
Perhaps the fact that it already moving from the wind, I just didn't differentiate the moving when I hit it...

My eyes need surgery...
 
sealhunter said:
I know nothing about metals...I thoght it was strong...:rolleyes:
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Strong but brittle. Steel will bend and dent before a bullet goes through it, cast iron simply breaks apart and cracks, you'll notice that the bullet holes actually took little chunks from the pan in the center. Compared to shooting at old chemical barrels that show jagged edges on the backside of the hole where the bullet dented the metal backwards before breaking through.
 
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