Long Range Rifle/Scope/PRS question(s)

Walkalong said:

It will be interesting to see what happens as the barrel speeds up.

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Or if you change powder lots, or ambient temperature increase/decrease, or (fill in the blank)

The fact is, the node is usually pretty wide and forgiving. That seems to be the case with my 6BRA anyway.

Good shooting, as always

Yes sir...GIGO-Garbage In Garbage Out. My Kestrel and Applied Ballistics is constantly being updated with Chrono readings and temperatures. My first match was 30 and snow, Last month was 95 and sun...same load shoots differently in the weather.
and I know if I can't read the wind, I hold the left side of the target unless it's really blowing hard. (or right side of target if it's a right to left wind day)

Walkalong said:

I haven't been in a good place lately, and I need to fix that. A day at the range competing and having fun with good folks was a big help, even if I did kind of suck.

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Without a doubt.

As long as a guy keeps the right attitude that there are more measures of “success” than their score, it’s pretty damned hard to have a bad day at a PRS match.

Sorry you didn't perform up to your personal standards, but still jealous of the opportunity to shoot. With travel and work, it's been weeks since I've pulled a trigger other than dry firing.

Great pictures; thanks for posting them.

@Walkalong

Could be worse' you could be here breathing a bunch of smoke.

I'm about to get access to a longer range (~1,200 yds) again after a bit of a drought, and am planning on replacing my trusty RPR in 6.5 with a new wee 6mm of some variety.

The rifle will be kind of basic, Origin in a KRG Bravo, and I was planning on getting a PPC bolt head and barrel in 6mm ARC since I already load it for an AR and have been really enjoying it. After talking to the folks at Northland shooting supply yesterday, I'm looking at other 6mm chamberings as they stated that they had barrels in the more common chamberings like 6mm GT, BR, Dasher, and Creedmoor on the shelf wherea an order made now is probably 18-20 weeks out.

Curious what everybody is using these days, are BR/Dasher variants still the go to, or is the GT making inroads due to the supposed much improved feeding? Have folks had good luck getting GTs to feed? I'm a bit paranoid about feeding as when I used to shoot occasional local matches, I saw what seemed like a lot of points dropped to poor feeding rigs. It looks like I can get GT brass and decent dies right now, so that's another plus given supply issues.

Part of me thinks I should just go 6mm Creedmoor and load it down a bit to the range I want to be in. If this is off topic for this thread, let me know and I can start another.

Around here, most of the BRA/Dasher shooters are still shooting BRA/Dasher, but a lot of 6.5 creed shooters shifted to GT as they upgraded into a competitive cartridge, and a lot of 6 creed shooters have shifted to GT to improve barrel life.

I have Creeds and a Dasher, but I bought a barrel last year to be chambered for GT - I just haven’t gotten around to having it spun up yet. 6BRA and Dasher feed fine, so don’t let that be a deciding factor for you.

Personally, I firmly believe if a guy isn’t shooting one of the six 6mm cartridges BRA, Dasher, GT, x47L, XCII, or Creed, they’re doing something self-defeating. And frankly, I’d usually count that as only 4 cartridges: BRA, Dasher, GT, and Creed.

Gtscotty said:

I'm a bit paranoid about feeding as when I used to shoot occasional local matches, I saw what seemed like a lot of points dropped to poor feeding rigs.

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More often than not, with the custom actions most guys are shooting, the only misfeeds happening are shooter induced by short stroking the bolt, or clutching on close and double feeding. No cartridge is immune to either.

I just made the same decision and went Dasher as I bought a barrel that came with dies and a bunch of brass, and was a prefit for my action- a Lone Peak Fuzion.

One guy told me 6BRA, another Dasher, and I think the consensus on here was 6GT. I was leaning hard toward GT before I got the deal I did. The guy I got the barrel from is a pro-level PRS shooter, helped develop 6GT, and has stayed with it.

I’m a Dasher guy but the GT has a few starting advantages over the Dasher in my opinion:

You don’t need to block the mags on the GT
Factory Brass and Aftermarket Brass
Factory loads to start with

it’s a solid round but I had my heart set on a Dasher to begin with. I wouldn’t shy away from the GT personally if I was building a new build. Dealers Choice basically

Thanks for the kind words, it was a pleasure talking and shooting with you today. We had an exceptional squad which makes a day of shooting all the more pleasant. I hope that we meet on a range again soon.

I really dislike shooting off the front of that helicopter. You have a much better position on it than I have ever been able to get.

Walkalong said:

I timed out on too many stages, and wasn't steady enough on some

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hey I forgot to dial back to my zero stop this morning...I had dialed in for testing this morning, then dialed even more in for the first stage...and couldn't figure it out until the 3rd stage...
wasn't my day today lol...way too many mental mistakes

I was 1 mil off...zeroed at 100 yards, 1 mil is my dial for 300 yards...I rolled out early that morning and confirmed hits at 300 yards on steel as the 100 yard line was full...
dope was good- great, head to shooters meeting and never dialed back..mental mistake for sure
no excuses there, normally I do dial right back to zero after every string.
Just have to do better in 2 weeks is all, and I wrote "dial back to zero" at the top of my dope cards for the next match