How far have you shot your M14 ...

Otokiak

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I'm curious how many of you have shot out real long distance and hit your target? Animal? Any pics of targets or animals? I'm talking 600 - 1000 yards or more? I know they say 600 is nothing for a 7.62 but curious who's tried?

Otokiak
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Just 100 so far , i had it zerod then added usgi sights , and havnt had the time to resight it yet .

Hoping to get out to 300 in the next week or so and would Love to get it to 600-700 but without a scope i dont think that will be possible for me .
 
Was hitting 12" gongs at 300 yards, irons used, with no problems last week. ;) Cant see a problem with 600-800.... if you can SEE what your shooting ;)
 
Have shot with irons on a 12" gong to 300m and scoped to 500m although I am not as consistent as I would like to be with this rifle. Hoping to stretch it out a little more soon though and hone my M14 skills.

Regards,
 
500m with irons, any shooter error transfers to a big miss.
Right now I would take a poke at a large game animal up to 200m max from a stable shooting position.
 
Tried 600 meter's up at Stave Lake after plinking at Mission's 300 meter range were I zero'd it. Although it sucked when you missed cause it was to hard to see being the fact that I was by my self & batting 50/50 with an optic shooting a 2 feet by 2 foot gong.
 
300 yards. I posted a pic of a benchrest target with my new bolt.

Now I plink at the 15" gong with open sights from sitting position or prone position. No rest. Sometimes I hit, sometimes I miss. It's not the rifle, it is me.
 
JRW (QOR) said:
500 so far, the drop is 24 inches zeroed at 100. Itching to get it out to 800 or more one day.
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Seems unlikely given my 700 LTR zeroed at 100 requires 14 MOA dialed in on my MK4 3.5-10X40 Leupold using Norma 168 gr BTHP match to make centered groups on target at 500 yds. 14MOA X 5 = 70" Six feet of drop not two. If anything my bolt gun gets better performance than a gas gun and 168's retain more velocity out there. And guess what. The bullet really starts falling then.

You see fellas thats why we use scope bases that have MOA built into them for long range. By the time the old 308 makes 1000 yds most scopes lack the internal adjustment to dial in that much drop unless they are mechanically offset to use all of the adjustment. That's also why we know people are bulls**tting when they claim to make 700 yd kills with scopes that lack target turrets. You won't even see an animal in the eyepiece holding high enough over it to compensate for the drop.

It's possible to make hits with an M14 at 1000 yds but it took some work by smart guys to get it there.
 
600meters at Volkes with my LRB. Gonna swap out the piston for the Sadlak NM grooved one and see what it'll do through the chrono with my bolt gun ammo - 175gr SMK - and then see what it'll do out to 1000m
 
Seafury said:
Seems unlikely given my 700 LTR zeroed at 100 requires 14 MOA dialed in on my MK4 3.5-10X40 Leupold using Norma 168 gr BTHP match to make centered groups on target at 500 yds. 14MOA X 5 = 70" Six feet of drop not two. If anything my bolt gun gets better performance than a gas gun and 168's retain more velocity out there. And guess what. The bullet really starts falling then.
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Hmm, that was what I measured. 24 inches. I zeroed both my Rem 700 and the M14 at 100. I then took the target (4'x4') to 300, drop with both was 12 inches. I then took the target out to 500, drop was another 12 inches. Both rifles. 145 gr Serbian.

I log all my shoots. This is exactly what I measured:

100-200: 11 clicks
100-300: 24 clicks
300-400: 36 clicks
100-400: 60 clicks

When I tested by AIA Enfield, the drop was 12inches from 100-300.

I have to re zero both again before the precision shoot, will test that again.
 
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