Sounds like a guy I was working with telling me all about the 950 yard running head shot he made on a moose with his Parker hale “3 hunnert mag” topped with a 4x tascolol
Last week this guy was telling me how he shot 800 meters with an open sight 303, hit just a hair low on a pretty small target with the sights adjusted to 350M
I asked him where's it hit at 350 with the sights set for 350?
"bang on"
That's a flat shootin' 303
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Another guy telling me he held top of the back on a bull moose with 7mm Rem Mag, put one right through the boiler room. His dad paced off the shot at it was 1200 yards.
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Nope, back in the day when the companies first started using the plastic tips, they stated the tips melted off, just like the lead tips.
I don't shop Cabela's. Sounds like you frequent the place.
A bonafide reason for deformed bullet tips...
https://cuttingedgebullets.com/blogs/news/case-of-the-melting-tips
Pretty sure the only one company that claimed deformed polymer tips was Hornady...They came late to the game of tipped bullets...Nosler was selling a sh!t ton of Ballistic tips for many years before Hornady decided to also join the tipped market.
They needed a leg up to try and catch the competition and with their aggressive marketing department and I'm sure more than a few bourbons came up with their "Heat shield" technology.
If you study Hornady products and their PR of such you will find they have a few other "It's rocket science" moments as well...HA !
As for lead tips melting on high velocity long shots no way...Google it.
392 yds, off a back pack rest!
Top target is my 7-08 with a custom Jury barrel, and a 3.5-10x 44 Zeiss with a Z-plex 600, holding for 400
This is my Ruger American Predator .243Win with a 4-16, Nikon Buckmaster with 3.2 Moa dialed in, at 392 yards same backpack……..
Top target is my 7-08 with a custom Jury barrel, and a 3.5-10x 44 Zeiss with a Z-plex 600, holding for 400
This is my Ruger American Predator .243Win with a 4-16, Nikon Buckmaster with 3.2 Moa dialed in, at 392 yards same backpack……..
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That was weird, but I think it’s fixed now…..
Nice 7”x10”-ish so your 1.7-ish moa 3-shot 338 wm?Game seen at extended ranges I try to get closer if I can. Target shooting on a light breeze day thought I'd see how my ~1 MOA .338 Win Mag / Nikon 4-16x groups at real long range.
, what’s its 10-shot moa as that’s the true moa, funny distance, my last session went to 626 yards, proving my Sako 90 308 peak drops with factory 168 eldm white box match 2592 fps, at 626 with a 1-8x scope, I had about 3” vertical and about 9” horizontal, little breezy also. I’ve shot many 2 shots at 600 and they always around 2.5-3”. Even got a beauty at 500, same day while working out to 600+, 3 shots at 1.75”. But I don’t take much stock in that or the .6” 3-shot on day 1 testing 8 ammo’s at 100, I found a couple factory loads I knew would shoot well enough and picked the winner and ordered some cases. Shot a couple 5 shot groups at 205 that weren’t that impressive 1.5 moa-ish, but nice and round and confirming zero exercise but I’m not that consistent a shot, don’t shoot a ton so don’t sweat the highs and lows. It’s all good data.
Lol don’t sweat the 10 shot, I don’t even know the 10 shot moa of my rig as always seem to set up in more uncontrolled conditions and haven’t done 10 at once, could be a 2 moa gun? I’m sure it’s less but not with me behind the wheel in my field range set ups, what I do know is it’s more than what I need for my goals. Cherry picking the odd 3-shot doesn’t tell me much. Just makes the sticker peck out a little when you see a gooder lol.
You may need 10 shots to get the proper zero though.
Or you can end up chasing .2 mil around at 500-600 in set up and trueing because you only zeroed to 3-shots.
Info is good, info about natural dispersion is good, and zeroing to the center of that is also good. Being as besides us the next most common reason for a miss at distance is improper zero or loss of zero. The number to know your natural dispersion is 10 and therefore to zero to center of that. Take it or leave it info. It’s not meant to rile anyone up, just edjamucate is all.
Now I know, it will save me a lot of ammo and gas down the road! Between correcting equipment issues or ultimately the trueing phase during data collection day.
I moved targets to get my heart going first. 300 yds from an improvised rest with a 6BR. 3 sighters in red. BIG gust of wind on #4 which I probably wouldn’t have noticed anyway looking at a deer, lol. 
Tried standing with the 308 but was all over hell in the wind.
Tried standing with the 308 but was all over hell in the wind.
That's OK accuracy IF you don't shoot past 150 yds.
