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Shooting 100 yds vs. 400 yds
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<blockquote data-quote="lonegunman762x51" data-source="post: 984535" data-attributes="member: 44486"><p>A 9" group at 400yds will still hit vitals. Recoil and a hot barrel might have something to do with your groups. I'd work on cold barrel 400yd shooting and shooting from off of a backpack, sticks or kneeling and prone supported.</p><p> </p><p>Since you are shooting factory ammo and high quality ammo is expensive, I'd work on setting up and firing a three shot group from various positions with a cold gun and my hunting gear. Learning reloading from the ground up and developing a sub-moa load before you go on this trip might be a little tough. </p><p> </p><p>When you mention the crosshairs being a bit large for your target, is the target you are shooting at similar in size to Dahl sheep vitals or a 2" spotter? I have a couple of different Leupold scopes and they all work fine and have nice clear optics. </p><p> </p><p>Everybody on the internet shoots 1" groups at 400yds and reloads with a standard deviation of 5 or less FPS. Consider it the 9" wanger of shooting. My all time favorite from LRH is someone's comment that a 250gr bullet going 2850fps from a 338 Lapua has far better ballistics and drops far less than the exact same bullet going the exact same speed from a gun with the exact same twist barrel from the exact same builder only chambered in 338 RUM. </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Just my opinion.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="lonegunman762x51, post: 984535, member: 44486"] A 9" group at 400yds will still hit vitals. Recoil and a hot barrel might have something to do with your groups. I'd work on cold barrel 400yd shooting and shooting from off of a backpack, sticks or kneeling and prone supported. Since you are shooting factory ammo and high quality ammo is expensive, I'd work on setting up and firing a three shot group from various positions with a cold gun and my hunting gear. Learning reloading from the ground up and developing a sub-moa load before you go on this trip might be a little tough. When you mention the crosshairs being a bit large for your target, is the target you are shooting at similar in size to Dahl sheep vitals or a 2" spotter? I have a couple of different Leupold scopes and they all work fine and have nice clear optics. Everybody on the internet shoots 1" groups at 400yds and reloads with a standard deviation of 5 or less FPS. Consider it the 9" wanger of shooting. My all time favorite from LRH is someone's comment that a 250gr bullet going 2850fps from a 338 Lapua has far better ballistics and drops far less than the exact same bullet going the exact same speed from a gun with the exact same twist barrel from the exact same builder only chambered in 338 RUM. Just my opinion. [/QUOTE]
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