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Nut up, or shut up!

Well, Wednesday will be an interesting day. My long range shooting mentor is taking me and my "steel gun" (the afore mentioned 308 win 700 SPS varmint) to Laramie Wyoming to shoot steel to 1150! He looked at my targets from last time out and we are going long. Well, not by Zee's standards:tooth:. He sent me elevation and barametric pressure readings to put in my ballistics calculator and figure my "come ups" temp and humidity we will have to get then. The only issue with equipment so far is I don't have a 20 MOA base on my rifle. This is going to interesting to say the least! But AWESOME!
Aim higher, or get a bigger gun.
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Good fortune in your endeavor. Wind will be your greatest enemy. Distance is a constant.
A shifting or changing wind is the fun one.
This. Distance means little. The wind....now, the wind is what makes things interesting.
The best (luckiest) shot I ever made was at a pdog at 344 yards (chip shot normally), but it was in a 54 mph broadside wind.
I wish I could say it was intentional, but it wasn't. I was firing a "spotter" six or so feet upwind of him. My intent was to kill him with my second shot.
Didn't need it.
Mike
N454casull
The only way to learn how to shoot in the wind is to..........shoot in the wind.
Wind is a very important factor, even at close 100 yard range and a severe range. I can't remember but I think I was using a 55 gr. bullet with a 30 mph cross wind. I told the guy shooting after me to hold about a ten inches to the right, but he didn't.
I thought that was my line.
I never adjust the scope for wind. If you do, be prepared to chase bullets all day.
Mike
N454casull
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In all my life here on the Coast I have never seen a constant wind other than a tropical storm blowing 50 MPH. Wind is MY nemesis. His scope probably has enough adjustment to get to 1000 yards I would think, maybe not. But there's no static adjustment for a varying wind. And the worst part is while it may be 5 MPH at the bench, it could be calm or 10 MPH at the target and unless you're a wizard with reading wind flags or mirage it's a good luck policy.
Son that's somebody with nothing to do with his time but keep me in trouble with mom.
Gene, nothing wrong with a 788 Remington. Mine was the most accurate rifle I ever owned. How many matches at my club I won with that dude. I remember when I had a friend glass bed it and it went from <.5 MOA to 1.5-2 inch groups. I was sick. But I read some old Bench Rest publications written by the great Warren Page. He said sometimes you need a pressure point on some rifles. He was right. I put the pressure point back in the forend and it went back to ultra accurate. It was cheap but even though it was a rear locker, it was one accurate rifle. Yep Townsen Whelen would say it was very interesting.
Son that's somebody with nothing to do with his time but keep me in trouble with mom.
The Plain Truth!
Son that's somebody with nothing to do with his time but keep me in trouble with mom.
It actually stops here now and then, most notibly a couple days after a hard blowing cold front or in the summer at about 10 oclock at night until about 8 A.M. Other than that it's probably blowin' and goin'!!! And changin' every 10 seconds.
Son that's somebody with nothing to do with his time but keep me in trouble with mom.
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"Slow is smooth, smooth is fast, and speed is the economy of motion" - Scott Jedlinski
hehe hehe, this is going to be fun!
Sucker rod sure is handy....about as many uses as duct tape