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My 6.5-.284 stretched it's legs a bit.....
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<blockquote data-quote="goodgrouper" data-source="post: 114523" data-attributes="member: 2852"><p><strong>My 6.5-.284 stretched it\'s legs a bit.....</strong></p><p></p><p>Uncle B and I got to spend a few awesome days hunting chucks this weekend and we spotted a few <em>WAAY</em> out there that I decided to take a crack at. </p><p></p><p>Temperature was a cool 50 degrees so the chucks weren't staying put very long. We had only a few minutes to find them, range them, get out the appropriate gun, dial in, and shoot.</p><p></p><p>I got the 1328 yard chuck on the third shot after using one of those to foul the barrel and get a sighter out. The 1556 yard chuck was perched atop a huge boulder with no backstop for 200 yards further out so every shot that went high actually looked like it was 6 feet low. I finally figured out where I was missing and dumped him on the 5th or 6th shot. This is currently the farthest living thing I have shot with the 6.5-.284. The previous record was 1508 two years ago. It has rung my 15" gong at 1 mile many times but a moving target is much harder to hit even if it is 200 yards closer!</p><p></p><p>Here is the pics. I apologize for the ugliness of the guy behing the rock!</p><p> <img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v358/goodgrouper/1328yardshot.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> </p><p> <img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v358/goodgrouper/1556yardshot.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> </p><p>(All ranges were found with a Swaro 1500 rangefinder ranging from the chuck's impact point back to the shooting bench.)</p><p></p><p>So much for the man who told me a few months ago that the 6.5 was done at 1000 yards! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="goodgrouper, post: 114523, member: 2852"] [b]My 6.5-.284 stretched it\'s legs a bit.....[/b] Uncle B and I got to spend a few awesome days hunting chucks this weekend and we spotted a few [i]WAAY[/i] out there that I decided to take a crack at. Temperature was a cool 50 degrees so the chucks weren't staying put very long. We had only a few minutes to find them, range them, get out the appropriate gun, dial in, and shoot. I got the 1328 yard chuck on the third shot after using one of those to foul the barrel and get a sighter out. The 1556 yard chuck was perched atop a huge boulder with no backstop for 200 yards further out so every shot that went high actually looked like it was 6 feet low. I finally figured out where I was missing and dumped him on the 5th or 6th shot. This is currently the farthest living thing I have shot with the 6.5-.284. The previous record was 1508 two years ago. It has rung my 15" gong at 1 mile many times but a moving target is much harder to hit even if it is 200 yards closer! Here is the pics. I apologize for the ugliness of the guy behing the rock! [img]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v358/goodgrouper/1328yardshot.jpg[/img] [img]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v358/goodgrouper/1556yardshot.jpg[/img] (All ranges were found with a Swaro 1500 rangefinder ranging from the chuck's impact point back to the shooting bench.) So much for the man who told me a few months ago that the 6.5 was done at 1000 yards! [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img] [/QUOTE]
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