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Leica's New Geovid HD-B
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<blockquote data-quote="Alan Griffith" data-source="post: 1002584" data-attributes="member: 4686"><p>Acid test for my Leica HD-B's last week during our 2nd week of the Utah general elk season. I had both a cow tag and a spike tag. Weather has been very warm for Utah elk so the've been heading into or coming out of the trees very close to the start or end of shooting light. If you weren't Johnny on the spot, you were SOL. I had been watching a Western facing hill the last 2 hours of the day with nothing but mule deer does moving. I decided to move to a spot to see across a sage flat to the West. Within minutes I spotted two elk which had just come out of the trees. Legal shooting light was over in about 10 minutes. I quickly took an initial range of 1020 yds to make sure they were in range. I then set up my Zeiss spotter to insure each was a legal animal. One spike and one cow. I then took a solid range of 1020. My HD-B's will give me dope to 1008 with the published info being 1000 yds. I kept bouncing the laser off different pieces of sage until I hit 1008/91 clicks. From there I just added two 1/4 moa clicks to get 23.25 moa. I got set up for a prone shot and sent the bullet. I saw a clean miss hit the dirt just over the bull's back. I quickly ranged again and got 950 yds. Sucker had moved in on me and I hadn't noticed in the fading light. I quickly dialed down to 83 clicks or 20.8 minutes. He was now quartering towards me and the bullet struck just to the inside edge of his right shoulder and entered into his thoracic cavity. At the shot, in the fading light, with 4 minutes left, I did not see the bullet impact nor his reaction, if their was one. I bolted another round into the chamber and started to squeeze when I noticed him do a slight hesitation to the right. Then to the left but he kept side stepping left until it caught up with him and he went over. If I hadn't had my HD-B's, i'm not sure I'd have been able to quick those shots off as quickly as possible. </p><p></p><p>A few weeks before the hunt I put together a small division 4 cheat sheet and took it to Kinkos to have it laminated. I used a luggage tag sized lamination plastic then grabbed two of their luggage tag attachment straps, for lack of a better term, and used it to attach the cheat sheet to my HD-B's. Makes converting clicks to a decimal moa format super quick and easy. Mush brain proof!</p><p></p><p>Alan</p><p></p><p><a href="http://s26.photobucket.com/user/GSSP/media/Elk%202014/20141019_083959_zps5tlk7kyd.jpg.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c129/GSSP/Elk%202014/20141019_083959_zps5tlk7kyd.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Alan Griffith, post: 1002584, member: 4686"] Acid test for my Leica HD-B's last week during our 2nd week of the Utah general elk season. I had both a cow tag and a spike tag. Weather has been very warm for Utah elk so the've been heading into or coming out of the trees very close to the start or end of shooting light. If you weren't Johnny on the spot, you were SOL. I had been watching a Western facing hill the last 2 hours of the day with nothing but mule deer does moving. I decided to move to a spot to see across a sage flat to the West. Within minutes I spotted two elk which had just come out of the trees. Legal shooting light was over in about 10 minutes. I quickly took an initial range of 1020 yds to make sure they were in range. I then set up my Zeiss spotter to insure each was a legal animal. One spike and one cow. I then took a solid range of 1020. My HD-B's will give me dope to 1008 with the published info being 1000 yds. I kept bouncing the laser off different pieces of sage until I hit 1008/91 clicks. From there I just added two 1/4 moa clicks to get 23.25 moa. I got set up for a prone shot and sent the bullet. I saw a clean miss hit the dirt just over the bull's back. I quickly ranged again and got 950 yds. Sucker had moved in on me and I hadn't noticed in the fading light. I quickly dialed down to 83 clicks or 20.8 minutes. He was now quartering towards me and the bullet struck just to the inside edge of his right shoulder and entered into his thoracic cavity. At the shot, in the fading light, with 4 minutes left, I did not see the bullet impact nor his reaction, if their was one. I bolted another round into the chamber and started to squeeze when I noticed him do a slight hesitation to the right. Then to the left but he kept side stepping left until it caught up with him and he went over. If I hadn't had my HD-B's, i'm not sure I'd have been able to quick those shots off as quickly as possible. A few weeks before the hunt I put together a small division 4 cheat sheet and took it to Kinkos to have it laminated. I used a luggage tag sized lamination plastic then grabbed two of their luggage tag attachment straps, for lack of a better term, and used it to attach the cheat sheet to my HD-B's. Makes converting clicks to a decimal moa format super quick and easy. Mush brain proof! Alan [URL=http://s26.photobucket.com/user/GSSP/media/Elk%202014/20141019_083959_zps5tlk7kyd.jpg.html][IMG]http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c129/GSSP/Elk%202014/20141019_083959_zps5tlk7kyd.jpg[/IMG][/URL] [/QUOTE]
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