I just got back home from my holiday break out with family in Manitoba. It was a lot of fun, got to do some hunting, target shooting and relaxing.
On the note of shooting, my brother and I finally got to do some much needed long range shooting. We decided to start some load development with the 338 LM at 450 yards in the local gravel pit. Needless to say we found our load and were hunting for a place to stretch its legs a little further.
In our search for longer distance, we found a nice 1000 yard sloping field and decided to warm up with the 308. Our target was a margarine lid on a 4x4 piece of half inch plywood. Sorry no pictures of the ‘range/field’ we were using, forgot the camera. Anyways, we dialed up the 308 and squeezed off a couple of rounds. To our surprise they were on target, although soon began to climb after a few rounds warmed up the gun and us. Unfortunately we only had 11 rounds between the 2 of us and our first sets were used to get us ‘dialed in’.
Normally we shoot at paper, but when the weather broke we grabbed the guns and ran for the hills to try and get in a little fun while the wind was down. We each took a 3 round set out of the last of the ammo we had, then decided to go check the target to see what we had done.
So for those of you who shoot at plywood on a regular basis, you might be able to help us in confirming/denying what we think happened. Here is a picture of the piece of plywood cut from the target.
How many bullets do you think struck this? I figured it might help to post a picture of the back of the target.
It seems to be split a little wider on the one hole than the other. And yes we measured the holes’ size, the one on the left measures just under 0.3” wide and the right one measures approximately 0.4” wide.
Although we are anxious to try our hand at 1000 yards again, it will have to wait for a little while. At least until we can get more components to make some more rounds up. And yes, we appreciate that repeatability is king among long range shooters. But this was fun and 'may' never be repeated although we will certainly keep trying.
On the note of shooting, my brother and I finally got to do some much needed long range shooting. We decided to start some load development with the 338 LM at 450 yards in the local gravel pit. Needless to say we found our load and were hunting for a place to stretch its legs a little further.
In our search for longer distance, we found a nice 1000 yard sloping field and decided to warm up with the 308. Our target was a margarine lid on a 4x4 piece of half inch plywood. Sorry no pictures of the ‘range/field’ we were using, forgot the camera. Anyways, we dialed up the 308 and squeezed off a couple of rounds. To our surprise they were on target, although soon began to climb after a few rounds warmed up the gun and us. Unfortunately we only had 11 rounds between the 2 of us and our first sets were used to get us ‘dialed in’.
Normally we shoot at paper, but when the weather broke we grabbed the guns and ran for the hills to try and get in a little fun while the wind was down. We each took a 3 round set out of the last of the ammo we had, then decided to go check the target to see what we had done.
So for those of you who shoot at plywood on a regular basis, you might be able to help us in confirming/denying what we think happened. Here is a picture of the piece of plywood cut from the target.
How many bullets do you think struck this? I figured it might help to post a picture of the back of the target.
It seems to be split a little wider on the one hole than the other. And yes we measured the holes’ size, the one on the left measures just under 0.3” wide and the right one measures approximately 0.4” wide.
Although we are anxious to try our hand at 1000 yards again, it will have to wait for a little while. At least until we can get more components to make some more rounds up. And yes, we appreciate that repeatability is king among long range shooters. But this was fun and 'may' never be repeated although we will certainly keep trying.
