To start, I think that I like my Modern Varmint more each and every time I shoot the thing, and today is no exception! The thing is just a dream, and hadn't been feeling the love lately, as it has just been riding in the sprayer with me. So today, once the field work was done I decided to finally try out my 24" gong from Range Rabbit. After building a quick and dirty stand, out to the field I went! Did a quick zero confirmation on my freshly mounted ACOG, and then had at it with my oh-so-accurate PMC Bronze 55gr FMJ-BT.
I decided to go big, so the first salvo of rounds was launched from 570 metres. I had a ~10 km/h wind at about 50 degrees to me, and the target being 24" @ 570m is about 3.6 moa. Being a mediocre shooter, I did not expect a whole lot, particularly using Kentucky windage for the horizontal adjustment. I was quite surprised and happy to hear the gong ring for 8/20! Also it turns out the TA31 chevron reticle is reasonably calibrated to my rifle and round. Good to know.
So, feeling quite confident, I backed er up to 770 metres for my second salvo of indirect fire at my now 2.7 moa target. After 20 shots, and not hearing a single ring of the gong, I figured I should go check it out. I mean, with those mad sniper skillz, surely I had to have hit it. And I did! A whopping 4/20 lightly scratched the paint, so that was pretty awesome.
After that I moved on to shoot standing at smaller steel, also from Range Rabbit. As a point of pride, I did NOT shoot out a chain while shooting long range... only while sighting in
All in all, going 12/40 at long range left this shooter in a pretty good mood, though in retrospect that does sound a lot worse than it felt at the time
I'm sure many of you would have heard freedom ring a few more times than I did, but oh well, I'm happy. So, who else got out today?
Oh, and here is my show of an ATRS and gong:
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P.S. to all the farmers out there, that ###y Certified Faller wheat seed in the background will be for sale next spring... you know you want it!
I decided to go big, so the first salvo of rounds was launched from 570 metres. I had a ~10 km/h wind at about 50 degrees to me, and the target being 24" @ 570m is about 3.6 moa. Being a mediocre shooter, I did not expect a whole lot, particularly using Kentucky windage for the horizontal adjustment. I was quite surprised and happy to hear the gong ring for 8/20! Also it turns out the TA31 chevron reticle is reasonably calibrated to my rifle and round. Good to know.
So, feeling quite confident, I backed er up to 770 metres for my second salvo of indirect fire at my now 2.7 moa target. After 20 shots, and not hearing a single ring of the gong, I figured I should go check it out. I mean, with those mad sniper skillz, surely I had to have hit it. And I did! A whopping 4/20 lightly scratched the paint, so that was pretty awesome.
After that I moved on to shoot standing at smaller steel, also from Range Rabbit. As a point of pride, I did NOT shoot out a chain while shooting long range... only while sighting in
All in all, going 12/40 at long range left this shooter in a pretty good mood, though in retrospect that does sound a lot worse than it felt at the time
I'm sure many of you would have heard freedom ring a few more times than I did, but oh well, I'm happy. So, who else got out today?Oh, and here is my show of an ATRS and gong:
P.S. to all the farmers out there, that ###y Certified Faller wheat seed in the background will be for sale next spring... you know you want it!
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,lol, that's pretty impressive at those ranges for sure, sounds like you had a good time!
