Did the early morning range thing again and this is what we came up with.
The shot of the day goes to this man. Those of you that are familiar with who he is, know him for is work. We were checking our zero at 600yds first thing this morning and a field sparrow landed on the top right corner of the target. I was spotting and saw the unsuspecting prey land. I turned you know you's attention to the new target and the rest is photos.
It wasn't his first shot of the morning and he said he had aimed for the body but he ended up clipping the back of it's neck.
I watched it flutter down infront of the target. My partner wanted to run down there and check it out but after looking through the spotting scope, I confirmed the target was not moving so we continued shooting till our guns needed to cool down. This picture is after we went down to confirm the kill. We set the bird back up on top of the target and you can actually see it through the scope on the top right corner.
From this pic, you can clearly see the 600yd target. The gongs are set up another 400yds beyond that in the field.
This is all that is left of match kings after making the 1000yd trip.
My curiousity was killing me as to how the MK and the 325gr bonded bullets would do at 100yds and this is what we gleaned from the test. The goal was to hit the plate high so that there wasn't a ton of movement.
The 325gr bonded hunting bullet went about as deep as the SMK did at 300yds.
The MK dug about another 1/8" deeper then it did at 300yds to about 3/4".
All in all it was a great day that got a little gusty towards the end of our shoot but I'll take that any day over being indoors.
