arcticcathonda
CGN frequent flyer
- Location
- Southern Alberta
Well what a better way to spend a long weekend Monday than trying your hand at 1000m shooting. Let me preface this by saying I am in no way a great shot, but man did we have fun! Spent some time trying to get on target, looking for splash and once that was dialed in we were off to the races! We were shooting a 260 Remington with some 142 SMK over H4350, and talk about some really nice bullets! I think my velocities were slightly off or I had a bad 100m zero, as the ballistics charts I calculated were off by about 3-4’.
We were shooting at a 12”x18” steel plate that had to be about ¾” thick, it worked really well and definitely no pot marks at that distance! Placed the plate hanging to begin with but misses were impossible to spot so we moved it to the sandy dust. After that things were much easier. After everything fell into place we were making hits about 60% of the time using flagging tape as wind flags at several points. What was really interesting was the 12mph cross- wind at our location was almost cancelled at 1000m by a different canyon breeze. End of the day ended with 1-2MOA of wind drift on the scope.
Learned a lot of things shooting out that far. Rifle cant can be a killer, tricking you into some poor wind calls if you are not careful. I will be upgrading to a swivel bipod and a cant level in the coming days to help fix that problem.
Anyways, I am hooked! Had a bunch of fun and took a new guy out. The physics and math tickled him silly not to mention being able to spot bullet trace through the air and watching it “fall onto the target” Needless to say he is also hooked. It is really nice to have someone else spotting misses and watching wind through a larger FOV optic like the binoculars we used. Really not sure if a spotting scope is needed, perhaps some sharper binoculars will do us fine. At the end of the day it was like we were speaking the same language for wind and elevation holds, some odd mix of mumbles and grunts. Funniest part of the whole day was watching my girlfriend who until now was milling about taking photos step up to the gun and slowly squeeze off a shot. Thinking she missed it began to get up, while the rest of us heard the PING 1 second later. Some pictures of the day:
IMG_1014 by SAndrewBaisley, on Flickr
IMG_0965 by SAndrewBaisley, on Flickr
IMG_0967 by SAndrewBaisley, on Flickr
IMG_1003 by SAndrewBaisley, on Flickr
IMAG0214 by SAndrewBaisley, on Flickr
IMAG0222 by SAndrewBaisley, on Flickr
IMAG0223 by SAndrewBaisley, on Flickr
We were shooting at a 12”x18” steel plate that had to be about ¾” thick, it worked really well and definitely no pot marks at that distance! Placed the plate hanging to begin with but misses were impossible to spot so we moved it to the sandy dust. After that things were much easier. After everything fell into place we were making hits about 60% of the time using flagging tape as wind flags at several points. What was really interesting was the 12mph cross- wind at our location was almost cancelled at 1000m by a different canyon breeze. End of the day ended with 1-2MOA of wind drift on the scope.
Learned a lot of things shooting out that far. Rifle cant can be a killer, tricking you into some poor wind calls if you are not careful. I will be upgrading to a swivel bipod and a cant level in the coming days to help fix that problem.
Anyways, I am hooked! Had a bunch of fun and took a new guy out. The physics and math tickled him silly not to mention being able to spot bullet trace through the air and watching it “fall onto the target” Needless to say he is also hooked. It is really nice to have someone else spotting misses and watching wind through a larger FOV optic like the binoculars we used. Really not sure if a spotting scope is needed, perhaps some sharper binoculars will do us fine. At the end of the day it was like we were speaking the same language for wind and elevation holds, some odd mix of mumbles and grunts. Funniest part of the whole day was watching my girlfriend who until now was milling about taking photos step up to the gun and slowly squeeze off a shot. Thinking she missed it began to get up, while the rest of us heard the PING 1 second later. Some pictures of the day:
IMG_1014 by SAndrewBaisley, on Flickr
IMG_0965 by SAndrewBaisley, on Flickr
IMG_0967 by SAndrewBaisley, on Flickr
IMG_1003 by SAndrewBaisley, on Flickr
IMAG0214 by SAndrewBaisley, on Flickr
IMAG0222 by SAndrewBaisley, on Flickr
IMAG0223 by SAndrewBaisley, on Flickr
