Good day for long range shooting!

FrogFire7

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My brother in law and his friend came up to shoot today. Buddy had never shot past 800, so we put a plate up at 1025. Conditions were perfect... His first shot was about 2 minutes high with his new rifle (25-06) that they'd been working loads up for. He connected on shot 6, I think. He also had a 243 he played with at 400 and 600 and hit extremely well.

Brother in law brought a 6 creed and his dad's 7 RM that'd he had worked on after his dad passed. Got on target after 3-4 rounds with those guns as well. His dad never got to shoot long range and would have been super proud.

I just missed edges of the plate the first 3 shots and then got on target with my 6.5 creed, which is fairly well dialed in. Was on target the second shot with my .22-250! It's a fast twist, sporter profile barrel from x-caliber, shooting the 75 eld-m. Typically shoots a ragged hole at 100, and I've shot it out to 800 a few times so I wasn't too surprised.

All day, we never held more than a minute and a half for wind, which was really nice for the guy that hadn't shot a lot of distance, since I mostly just "play" with long range and am not great at calling wind yet.

All in all, real fun day shooting distance! 🙂
 
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you can really appreciate those light wind days, we see so few of them that when it happens here central SD I jump up and get everything set up and start shooting. today I was hoping to get 4 rifles dialed in to 600 yards but looking out my window the windsock is straight out from the south east so no sense wasting ammo
 
My brother in law and his friend came up to shoot today. Buddy had never shot past 800, so we put a plate up at 1025. Conditions were perfect... His first shot was about 2 minutes high with his new rifle (25-06) that they'd been working loads up for. He connected on shot 6, I think. He also had a 243 he played with at 400 and 600 and hit extremely well.

Brother in law brought a 6 creed and his dad's 7 RM that'd he had worked on after his dad passed. Got on target after 3-4 rounds with those guns as well. His dad never got to shoot long range and would have been super proud.

I just missed edges of the plate the first 3 shots and then got on target with my 6.5 creed, which is fairly well dialed in. Was on target the second shot with my .22-250! It's a fast twist, sporter profile barrel from x-caliber, shooting the 75 eld-m. Typically shoots a ragged hole at 100, and I've shot it out to 800 a few times so I wasn't too surprised.

All day, we never held more than a minute and a half for wind, which was really nice for the guy that hadn't shot a lot of distance, since I mostly just "play" with long range and am not great at calling wind yet.

All in all, real fun day shooting distance! 🙂
My experience with CALLING the wind is about the same as Herding BUFFALO...you can herd a buffalo.... ANYWHERE IT WANTS TO GO! Never tried calling the wind....but I've definitely sworn at it a larger number of times!
 
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