You switch back and forth with your spotter and let your rifle cool.
Precision rifle course rifle pick?
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You switch back and forth with your spotter and let your rifle cool.
Have you shot your .223 at 1K yet? If you can hold 1MOA out there you will be fine.
In have not taken Rob's course ( irons shooter here ) but have many friends who have , and they all enjoyed it and learned from it. Several had not done a lot of 1K shooting before and were able to make consistant hits at 1k on the second day, with 308's. if you can hit 1MOA at 1K with your set up you will be fine.
Most of the people I know used 6.5 CM, 308's ,338 Lapuas, and a few 300's .
Cat
Hi Iron Cat, I have not shot out to 1K yet, our local ranges only go out to 300yds, I am surrounded by crown land and hopefully can find a safe spot to try my luck out that far. The furthest I have shot the 223 is 450yds and I was extremely new at longer shots then and did not record the results. Once I'm off shift I will head out for a longer shoot. Hopefully this cold snap will keep the winds to a minimum.
Windy
Windy
Well. I know that they have had some shooters there that had never fired a rifle before and were making hits af 1K after instruction and wind coaching but that was with the rental 308's.
Check your 233 out as far as you can and if you feel comfortable, take it with you. You can always grab one of the rental rifles if you start having issues " out there "
Cat
"Capable of 1MOA" does not mean " shoot 1 MOA at every distance . The steel they shoot at is far bigger than 1MOA, but they suggest that the rifle be capable of that .
However , a shooter that shoots 1MOA in an Fclass match is not automatically going to win the match .
The V bull is, after all only 1/2 MOA, and as you likely realize Fclass is not a single distance discipline and scores win the match not hits.
Cat
A rifle that can shoot 1 MOA at 100 yards can shoot it at 1,000 yards.
What happens at 1,000 yards is that there's 1,000 yards full of external influences that is effecting the projectile on its flight path.
Very first tactical rifle course I ever did was with a borrowed 300 Win Mag. I'm not recoil sensitive (or rather, wasn't then, it was about 30 years back or so, and arthritis is changing that). Made for a long day. Have to a agree, a 308, 7mm-08, 260 (or it's other 6.5 relatives) will all make for a better choice. Your 223 with 75's will reach 1k, but if the wind picks up you will have a tough time. FWIW - dan
I had my course with RFMA this last weekend, took the 223. Had a lot of fun and learned a lot. The 223 did ok, my issues with it were seeing hits and misses past 500m. With mirage it was hard to see the hit marks on the plates. My shooting spot buddy was using a 300 win mag and it was really easy to see his hits. At 800, 900 and 1000m they had hit indicator lights on the plates which was the only way to tell I was hitting the target. The crew with RFMA was top notch and went out of their way to help me out.
How many rounds did you end up going through?
