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<blockquote data-quote="Dave King" data-source="post: 52069" data-attributes="member: 3"><p>Ian</p><p></p><p> I had a chance yesterday to try a new "sniper" mover system. The target speed was set to "walk" speed, about 3 MPH with a 90 foot track. The target itself is 12 inches wide and 48 inches tall (as you know, tall has no bearing on a mover). We shot at 240 yards on an oblique of about 60 degrees first so the mover effect was small but the target got pretty skinny. We then moved to directly in front of the target at 300 yards and did some shooting then went back to 600 yards. The wind was very cooperative and it only took 2 MOA to zero the wind out of the mover problem. We were getting a high percentage of hits in the calm wind. The lead we used was 1 to 1.5 MIL (POA to POI) depending on distance to target and shooter characteristics. We shot the "trap" method most often as it's hard to track a narrow target.</p><p></p><p> On the 240 yard shots we could get head shots (about a 6 inch width) with relative ease and the 300 yard shots were fairly easy too. The 600 yards shots got to be very problematic if there was a change in wind.</p><p></p><p> The mover traveled in both directions on a autoreturn rail. The wind problem would show up as misses on the mover in one direction and hits on the leading edge while moving in the other direction. The moral is:</p><p></p><p> "If ya gotta run when someone is shooting at ya, run directly across the line of fire AND into the wind, and run FAST, VERY FAST".</p><p></p><p> I like shooting the movers!!!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dave King, post: 52069, member: 3"] Ian I had a chance yesterday to try a new "sniper" mover system. The target speed was set to "walk" speed, about 3 MPH with a 90 foot track. The target itself is 12 inches wide and 48 inches tall (as you know, tall has no bearing on a mover). We shot at 240 yards on an oblique of about 60 degrees first so the mover effect was small but the target got pretty skinny. We then moved to directly in front of the target at 300 yards and did some shooting then went back to 600 yards. The wind was very cooperative and it only took 2 MOA to zero the wind out of the mover problem. We were getting a high percentage of hits in the calm wind. The lead we used was 1 to 1.5 MIL (POA to POI) depending on distance to target and shooter characteristics. We shot the "trap" method most often as it's hard to track a narrow target. On the 240 yard shots we could get head shots (about a 6 inch width) with relative ease and the 300 yard shots were fairly easy too. The 600 yards shots got to be very problematic if there was a change in wind. The mover traveled in both directions on a autoreturn rail. The wind problem would show up as misses on the mover in one direction and hits on the leading edge while moving in the other direction. The moral is: "If ya gotta run when someone is shooting at ya, run directly across the line of fire AND into the wind, and run FAST, VERY FAST". I like shooting the movers!!! [/QUOTE]
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