Long Range Rimfire Setup
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This thread is useful only as an historical record. Rimfire PRS was hardly a thing eight years ago and many of the rifles and optics currently recommended and in use didn't exist back then.
Any update that's worthwhile should have its own thread. Let this one rest.
Any update that's worthwhile should have its own thread. Let this one rest.
How is the original post not still relevant? It's a valid discussion even if it was dormant. Yes it got dragged back to the top, but people have been responding to it.
The idea of a precision rimfire hasn't changed, if anything it's only gotten more popular. Why would you want to discourage that? Also, why start another thread of the same thing if people are contributing?
The idea of a precision rimfire hasn't changed, if anything it's only gotten more popular. Why would you want to discourage that? Also, why start another thread of the same thing if people are contributing?
You imagine my observations represent a desire to discourage it now.
The point was that the idea of precision rimfire as a shooting discipline was largely unknown eight years ago when this thread began and so was hardly a valid discussion of what's relevant today.
Of course if anyone wants to continue to add to this thread, I'll make no further comments that can be somehow construed as discouragement.
The point was that the idea of precision rimfire as a shooting discipline was largely unknown eight years ago when this thread began and so was hardly a valid discussion of what's relevant today.
Of course if anyone wants to continue to add to this thread, I'll make no further comments that can be somehow construed as discouragement.
Well most of the stuff that was relevant then is obsolete for many years now! CZ is one of the prominent rifles used in all forms of PRS matches. Three models later and then enter Vudoo and Rim X plus others. Everything including optics and ammunition is in a completely different place now than back then plus all the new models that are available as of late! Completely new game with totally new products available that were not around then. So the thread is obsolete as nothing is relevant any longer.
deadman, Livin' in the past are we ? I look to posts for 'INFORMATION' - NOT 'HISTORY'. It's very disappointing to open a thread and find it's 8-years OLD !!
In the " NEW CGN " Maybe there can be a "History" section, or Colour these ancient post in Yellow (For deteriorating Value).
In the " NEW CGN " Maybe there can be a "History" section, or Colour these ancient post in Yellow (For deteriorating Value).
I dont really know what to say. Sure, prs as an organized event may be a relatively new thing, but the idea of long range shooting isn't. Of course there are new models of rifle/optics etc.
The op wasn't about "what is the latest best thing", just what are you using.....
Not everybody is shooting the latest model of x rifle.
I have a relatively new model of scope on a rifle I bought 15ish years ago, and have been shooting it out to 450 yds. Is that not relevant to the original question?
How many entries in the various challenges on this forum are brand new models?
Start a new thread if you want, it's no skin off my nose.
Have a great day gents, and a good shooting season.
The op wasn't about "what is the latest best thing", just what are you using.....
Not everybody is shooting the latest model of x rifle.
I have a relatively new model of scope on a rifle I bought 15ish years ago, and have been shooting it out to 450 yds. Is that not relevant to the original question?
How many entries in the various challenges on this forum are brand new models?
Start a new thread if you want, it's no skin off my nose.
Have a great day gents, and a good shooting season.
-or- you could just read the date and time on the "started by" banner before opening the thread and just move on if it's too ancient for you.
not sure why I set this rig up but once I no longer needed an acreage friendly coyote/beaver pester I sold my old cz 452 varmint .17 hmr which did 5 shot dime size groups at 100 and kinda missed it, so bought an savage a17 semi-auto as my only 'fun' gun as I'm a hunter only so if it can't go pest or fill the freezer etc. then I have no use for it....anyway, figured it could do fun range time but double up as a coyote calling or trailer pest rig and as it turns out it might end up a bc turkey rig as they have rimfire allowed....
so the long range hunt set up then...not prs set up....hunt, went like this, I had a leupold 2.5-8x36 cds-zl sitting around, at some point I had korth put the cds-zl put onto the vx3 once that turret was available, and so I sent it back to korth for a 100 yard parallax adjust just for this hmr, my favourite round for the coyote/beaver pesting was the cci 17 grain TNT as it was a little tougher than the v-max and I shot coyotes will all of them and it was the perfect one, plus it always seems to shoot lights out and it shoots plenty good enough out of this savage as suggested by others who had tested
so, weaver 1" low detach top mount old school rings put that scope a sliver off the barrel and beauty low alignment, I did have to shave down the very back end plastic piece on the back of the action just a bit to clear the eye piece...thats how snug this set up is, maybe 1/16" clearance over barrel, perfect, and so I chronographed this '2550' fps rated ammo at a little over 2600 fps from that 22" barrel of the base model savage a17....and the bc is .100, so I had a cds-zl turret made up for it as why would have it sitting there without the ability to dial up for fun in plinking or pesting or hunting? the scope is 1.25" off the bore ctc and so I ran the ballistics and sent off for a turret, looks like a 130 yard zero gives me a 1.1" high to 1.1" low (2.2" total) mpbr from 2 yards to 148 yards....and it will dial to a little over 300 yards at my elevation, so korth whips up a cool turret that says 1.3 on the zero and then shows 1.5, 1.75, 2 (200 yards) and then markings to go just past 3 (for 300 yards) and I confirmed zero at 130 the other day....then set up at 200 and dialled to the 2, and put 3 on the bull in about 3" group, 2 right on the bull, one pulled or whatever....anyway, not bad for a rimfire semi-auto, I slapped some 10 kmh wind data on the stock and now have a proper long range turkey/coytote hunting pesting plinking rimfire, weighs 6 lb 10 oz bare scoped rifle, not a bad little set up
it's not the latest trend as I'm sure intended by this thread...the ffp/mil prs type trainer set up for .22 lr long range training...but it lends perspective to the hardcore hunter types and how to set up for actual hunting rigs into the ranges they can kill stuff when driven by mortals...same as the prs guys only killing to 600 vs the ranges they prs at....the natural laws that govern the killing/hunting stuff vs the range stuff apply to both the centerfire and big game as the rimfire small game
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so the long range hunt set up then...not prs set up....hunt, went like this, I had a leupold 2.5-8x36 cds-zl sitting around, at some point I had korth put the cds-zl put onto the vx3 once that turret was available, and so I sent it back to korth for a 100 yard parallax adjust just for this hmr, my favourite round for the coyote/beaver pesting was the cci 17 grain TNT as it was a little tougher than the v-max and I shot coyotes will all of them and it was the perfect one, plus it always seems to shoot lights out and it shoots plenty good enough out of this savage as suggested by others who had tested
so, weaver 1" low detach top mount old school rings put that scope a sliver off the barrel and beauty low alignment, I did have to shave down the very back end plastic piece on the back of the action just a bit to clear the eye piece...thats how snug this set up is, maybe 1/16" clearance over barrel, perfect, and so I chronographed this '2550' fps rated ammo at a little over 2600 fps from that 22" barrel of the base model savage a17....and the bc is .100, so I had a cds-zl turret made up for it as why would have it sitting there without the ability to dial up for fun in plinking or pesting or hunting? the scope is 1.25" off the bore ctc and so I ran the ballistics and sent off for a turret, looks like a 130 yard zero gives me a 1.1" high to 1.1" low (2.2" total) mpbr from 2 yards to 148 yards....and it will dial to a little over 300 yards at my elevation, so korth whips up a cool turret that says 1.3 on the zero and then shows 1.5, 1.75, 2 (200 yards) and then markings to go just past 3 (for 300 yards) and I confirmed zero at 130 the other day....then set up at 200 and dialled to the 2, and put 3 on the bull in about 3" group, 2 right on the bull, one pulled or whatever....anyway, not bad for a rimfire semi-auto, I slapped some 10 kmh wind data on the stock and now have a proper long range turkey/coytote hunting pesting plinking rimfire, weighs 6 lb 10 oz bare scoped rifle, not a bad little set up
it's not the latest trend as I'm sure intended by this thread...the ffp/mil prs type trainer set up for .22 lr long range training...but it lends perspective to the hardcore hunter types and how to set up for actual hunting rigs into the ranges they can kill stuff when driven by mortals...same as the prs guys only killing to 600 vs the ranges they prs at....the natural laws that govern the killing/hunting stuff vs the range stuff apply to both the centerfire and big game as the rimfire small game
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