Exciting day at the range!

View · by **gun_fan111** on Sat Oct 19, 2013 9:41 am

Exciting day today - breaking in a new 30-06 and two 1911s!

Hope my hands don't shake too much from the excitement

View · by **Rip Van Winkle** on Sat Oct 19, 2013 9:42 am

Hope your fingers don't go numb from the cold and wet. :lol:

View · by **catalyst686** on Sat Oct 19, 2013 10:07 am

Have fun, I'm headed out to rainbow.

View · by **gun_fan111** on Sat Oct 19, 2013 1:57 pm

I was indoors, so the rifle is sighted in at only 46 yards - Bambi will have to come a little closer to become dinner

Sig Tacops had a few failures to go into battery, but the officer size Citadel was a champ! She will get her front sight painted as a reward.

View · by **bensdad** on Sat Oct 19, 2013 2:50 pm

I was indoors, so the rifle is sighted in at only 46 yards

Scopes view a staight line. Bullets travel in an arc. It's sighted in at 46 and some other unknown distance (might actually be close to 100). The bullet passes through the staight line viewed by the scope twice.

View · by **farmerj** on Sat Oct 19, 2013 5:58 pm

Shot at 25 yards at one inch high, you'd be good mpbr out to almost 190 yards.

View · by **gun_fan111** on Sat Oct 19, 2013 7:23 pm

farmerj wrote:Shot at 25 yards at one inch high, you'd be good mpbr out to almost 190 yards.

I checked the ballistics chart for the load I use. Zero'd in the way I am I have:
- Zero again at 121 yards
- Within +- 1 inch out to 150 yards
- and it starts dropping fast from there

Thanks to you I read up on MPBR and will try it out next time I go through this!

View · by **farmerj** on Sat Oct 19, 2013 7:26 pm

Yoh will want to consider killzone size tok for your target. A coyote won't be the same as a deer or an elk.

View · by **bensdad** on Sat Oct 19, 2013 8:57 pm

(might actually be close to 100)

- Zero again at 121 yards

As bensdad was only 21 yds off, I'd like to nominate him for smartest guy in the thread. :ugeek:

View · by **gun_fan111** on Sat Oct 19, 2013 11:04 pm

bensdad wrote:
(might actually be close to 100)

- Zero again at 121 yards

As bensdad was only 21 yds off, I'd like to nominate him for smartest guy in the thread.

+1

View · by **Countryfried Frank** on Sun Oct 20, 2013 7:26 am

gun_fan111 wrote:
bensdad wrote:
(might actually be close to 100)

- Zero again at 121 yards

As bensdad was only 21 yds off, I'd like to nominate him for smartest guy in the thread.

+1

+21

View · by **mmcnx2** on Sun Oct 20, 2013 7:53 am

gun_fan111 wrote:
farmerj wrote:Shot at 25 yards at one inch high, you'd be good mpbr out to almost 190 yards.

I checked the ballistics chart for the load I use. Zero'd in the way I am I have:
- Zero again at 121 yards
- Within +- 1 inch out to 150 yards
- and it starts dropping fast from there

Thanks to you I read up on MPBR and will try it out next time I go through this!

An inch of drop in 29 yards(150-121) seems like alot, depending on the load 30-06's tend to be a little flatter than that.

View · by **gun_fan111** on Sun Oct 20, 2013 11:17 am

180 grains leaving the muzzle at 2700 ft/s.