shooting farther

[ffwd]

I'm visiting family in Saskatchewan this week. I had the opportunity to shoot out past 200 yds. Pretty much in my aunt and uncles yard. So great. I set up a large sight in target beside a post with a brake drum painted white. Took three shots at the paper to get on at different ranges, then on to the brake drum. Surprisingly, I had more hits at 300 yds (on the drum) than 200. My preferred load (so far) requires a half mil of elevation at 300 yds, and 1.5 at 400 yds. Only one hit out of 6 on the drum at 400, so I think I'll stick to 300 or less. Could have been the barrel was too fouled at that point.
168 gr. Bergers will punch a perfectly round hole through a cast brake drum at 400 yds. Cool.

 

[al100]

What were you shooting for a gun?

 

[mandy]

Dumb Drum

Betcha, at 400yds, that if you had put a large sheet of cardboard behind the drum you would have found that you still had a pretty good group but a lot lower than you would have thought. Allowing that you had a strong enough scope to see what you were shooting of course. Methinks!

 

[ffwd]

7mm Weatherby magnum. 168 gr. Bergers over 70.5 gr. H4831 chrono'd at 2900 fps. 3500 ft elevation

I may have had a fps variance that was vertically stringing my shots as I had 1 hit on the drum at 400, with a hit almost directly 10" lower on the metal stake that was holding up said drum. POA was the same with the 1.5 mil hash mark on the center of the drum. Again, 50 or so shots with no cleaning on a factory barrel may have had something to do with it as well. I would have liked to have had a big piece of cardboard or something to check out where they were landing, but, maybe next time.