731 yds & 734yds shooting
Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2012 3:48 pm
Hello all
Due to loads happening in my life with work, family and all that come with this I haven't been out anywhere near as much I wanted practicing longer range varminting and shooting.
Some months back a friend of mine made me some 6" 7" & 8" "Hardox" steel plates . The 6" plates have had a bashing as ive been practicing on these with the .204 & .308 with ranges from 150yds--300yds practicing shooting from sticks, prone etc , its amazing how much damage a .308 will do to a 15mm piece of steel at 250yds and the .204 does make a good little crater.
Just before Christmas I had a new Android type phone and downloaded free the "shooter " ballistics calculator ,anyway I've been itching to get out and do some longer range shooting and check out the "shooter " ballistics calculator.
Last week kids in school nice cold dry day and I've found a new location where I can practice out to 900yds , decided 900yds was too much so settled on a nice sheltered location that gave me 731yds & 734yds to target
The targets being an 8" & 7" steel plate, The "shooter " ballistics calculator had an easy or advanced setting when programed ,part of this was the % your given load would loose fps with every 0c of temp change (i got this from tinternet searching my specific powders)
Got all settled down targets all ranged there was a consistent 2 mph 3 o'clock r-l wind and the temp was -1 c it was a real nice day. I took two rifles out the Rem model 7 .204 with a 10x40 Bushnell tactical on top shooting a 32gr SBK & Sako 85 SS Varmint in .243 the PMII 5-25x56 shooting 85gr hpbt .
Started with the .243 and adjusted for wind and drop held nice and steady with bi-pod and bag then fired , I saw nothing fired again & again still didn't see any impact or splash from the bullet , i rechecked the range the wind my calculations and what ive dialed all was the same .
I had a cuppa and racked my brains what could it be, then remembered about the temp alteration on the ballistics calculator as all my loads were developed in the Summer / Autumn with temperature in the
20 C range . I had a little fiddle with the phone and put in the new Temp.
Re-dialed the new MOA given with the temp and fired saw the impact just to the left & low of the 8" plate altered 3 clicks right and 3 up again fired the time of flight seems ages at this range then to my astonishment saw the hit on the plate low left i was chuffed to bits , didn't alter scope just fire again plate hit high right 3rd shot missed plate buy 1" over the next 22 shots i managed 2/3rds hits with the .243 the misses were close .
I managed a quite a few hits with the .204 4/10 hits but very pleased with this as shooting a x10 scope and the plates did look very small through this.
I cant wait to bag a rabbit in the 700yds range .
hope you enjoyed the little read....Neil
Due to loads happening in my life with work, family and all that come with this I haven't been out anywhere near as much I wanted practicing longer range varminting and shooting.
Some months back a friend of mine made me some 6" 7" & 8" "Hardox" steel plates . The 6" plates have had a bashing as ive been practicing on these with the .204 & .308 with ranges from 150yds--300yds practicing shooting from sticks, prone etc , its amazing how much damage a .308 will do to a 15mm piece of steel at 250yds and the .204 does make a good little crater.
Just before Christmas I had a new Android type phone and downloaded free the "shooter " ballistics calculator ,anyway I've been itching to get out and do some longer range shooting and check out the "shooter " ballistics calculator.
Last week kids in school nice cold dry day and I've found a new location where I can practice out to 900yds , decided 900yds was too much so settled on a nice sheltered location that gave me 731yds & 734yds to target
The targets being an 8" & 7" steel plate, The "shooter " ballistics calculator had an easy or advanced setting when programed ,part of this was the % your given load would loose fps with every 0c of temp change (i got this from tinternet searching my specific powders)
Got all settled down targets all ranged there was a consistent 2 mph 3 o'clock r-l wind and the temp was -1 c it was a real nice day. I took two rifles out the Rem model 7 .204 with a 10x40 Bushnell tactical on top shooting a 32gr SBK & Sako 85 SS Varmint in .243 the PMII 5-25x56 shooting 85gr hpbt .
Started with the .243 and adjusted for wind and drop held nice and steady with bi-pod and bag then fired , I saw nothing fired again & again still didn't see any impact or splash from the bullet , i rechecked the range the wind my calculations and what ive dialed all was the same .
I had a cuppa and racked my brains what could it be, then remembered about the temp alteration on the ballistics calculator as all my loads were developed in the Summer / Autumn with temperature in the
20 C range . I had a little fiddle with the phone and put in the new Temp.
Re-dialed the new MOA given with the temp and fired saw the impact just to the left & low of the 8" plate altered 3 clicks right and 3 up again fired the time of flight seems ages at this range then to my astonishment saw the hit on the plate low left i was chuffed to bits , didn't alter scope just fire again plate hit high right 3rd shot missed plate buy 1" over the next 22 shots i managed 2/3rds hits with the .243 the misses were close .
I managed a quite a few hits with the .204 4/10 hits but very pleased with this as shooting a x10 scope and the plates did look very small through this.
I cant wait to bag a rabbit in the 700yds range .
hope you enjoyed the little read....Neil
