The 6.5 Creedmoor, the 260 done right....

Jeromeo said:
Uh oh, I think you caught him.


Before handheld ballistics programs or the help of a chronograph, I shot out to 800m at genessee quite successfully for about three years. However; I did have a friend with a spotting scope to help. Not exactly rocket science to hit a coffee can at 800m, even for caramel.
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cdn shooter said:
Ok, well that's a weird way to shoot a can at 800....what do you use for calculating distance to target?
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That one was easy, the can was nail to a big tree just on the side of the lake across from my cabin (range finder was givin 810 yards), in prone position on sand bag, i started to shoot and my bullet hit the water like 200 yards before the target, so did crank elevation , took another shot, was around 50 yards from the target crank the elevation more, got just on the fringe of the lake, crank more, one more shot, no more water splash, it was on the dry, my wife was looking tru the Swarsosky SS and on the sixth shot she told me the coffee can had moved, i shot 14 mores times and 10 of those shots ended in the can, this is old school fun shooting... JP. For information this is a family lake with only 4 houses on one side, there no danger doing that, completly wild on the shooting side...
 
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caramel said:
That one was easy, the can was nail to a big tree just on the side of the lake across from my cabin (range finder was givin 810 yards), in prone position on sand bag, i started to shoot and my bullet hit the water like 200 yards before the target, so did crank elevation , took another shot, was around 50 yards from the target crank the elevation more, got just on the fringe of the lake, crank more, one more shot, no more water splash, it was on the dry, my wife was looking tru the Swarsosky SS and on the sixth shot she told me the coffee can had moved, i shot 14 mores times and 10 of those shots ended in the can, this is old school fun shooting... JP. For information this is a family lake with only 4 houses on one side, there no danger doing that, completly wild on the shooting side...
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Hahaha right on! Must not be a breath of wind at this spot if you have zero holdoff....what about spin drift?? Must be about .75 moa out there which equals a miss if unaccounted for.
 
cdn shooter said:
Hahaha right on! Must not be a breath of wind at this spot if you have zero holdoff....what about spin drift?? Must be about .75 moa out there which equals a miss if unaccounted for.
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I was after supper and the lake was a mirror, the only water mouvements you could se were the speckeld trouts jumping for flies, 0 wind, 0 drift, 0 everything... JP.
 
caramel said:
That one was easy, the can was nail to a big tree just on the side of the lake across from my cabin (range finder was givin 810 yards), in prone position on sand bag, i started to shoot and my bullet hit the water like 200 yards before the target, so did crank elevation , took another shot, was around 50 yards from the target crank the elevation more, got just on the fringe of the lake, crank more, one more shot, no more water splash, it was on the dry, my wife was looking tru the Swarsosky SS and on the sixth shot she told me the coffee can had moved, i shot 14 mores times and 10 of those shots ended in the can, this is old school fun shooting... JP. For information this is a family lake with only 4 houses on one side, there no danger doing that, completly wild on the shooting side...
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For someone who seems to routinely punch 0.3 MOA groups you sure waste a lot of ammo getting on target. A printed off ballistic table from a free online ballistic computer with atmospheric conditions set to ISA would at least get you a hell of a lot closer on the first shot...
 
blueoval56 said:
For someone who seems to routinely punch 0.3 MOA groups you sure waste a lot of ammo getting on target. A printed off ballistic table from a free online ballistic computer with atmospheric conditions set to ISA would at least get you a hell of a lot closer on the first shot...
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I always waist a lot of ammo to shoot, i respect those new applications and calculations but as an ingener, (did work with numbers all my carrer), it is part of my shooting, shooting a lot, at the range i see guys who shoot 20 rounds in half a day, they seem to enjoy themselves but it is not my cup of tea, i will bring 5 rifles and go 250-300 rounds all togheter sometimes much more... JP.
 
caramel said:
I was after supper and the lake was a mirror, the only water mouvements you could se were the speckeld trouts jumping for flies, 0 wind, 0 drift, 0 everything... JP.
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You have somehow eliminated spin drift? Please explain further. Sounds like a great place to shoot though, congrats.
 
caramel said:
I always waist a lot of ammo to shoot, i respect those new applications and calculations but as an ingener, (did work with numbers all my carrer), it is part of my shooting, shooting a lot, at the range i see guys who shoot 20 rounds in half a day, they seem to enjoy themselves but it is not my cup of tea, i will bring 5 rifles and go 250-300 rounds all togheter sometimes much more... JP.
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Call me crazy, but the whole reason I go through all of the meticulous steps required in this precision dog and pony show is to hit what I'm aiming at... the first time.

Everyone has their way I guess.

P.s.- I'm sure your fellow "Ingeners" would appreciate if you spelled it Engineer. Common courtesy for next time :)
 
I always hit what i'm aiming at after... When i am perfectly zero, always make this mistake from french to english... JP.
 
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