Hugger-4641
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Had a great day with my two Sil's and a friend of thiers.
Took them to my club's range and we had it to ourselves all afternoon.
Was able to help them all get hits out to 650yds with thier rifles and a few of mine.
None of them are extremely gun savy, but my youngest Sil (youngest daughters husband) is an avid Coyote hunter. None of them were accustomed to shooting past 300yds and it showed when they moved to the 400yd target.
So my oldest Sil (my oldest daughter's husband) is in for the week from New Mexico, brought his Axis II 30-06 and his new 110 in 300wsm.
He bought the 300wsm on a whim and didn't realize how hard ammo is to find for it. So I found some brass and dies at LGS and had to work up a load for him the other day. Fortunately I found an accurate one pretty quickly with H4831sc and 178eldx. We zeroed his rifles 1 1/2" high at 100yds just like I normally do mine and my other Sil's.
So he starts on the bench with the 30-06 using his factory Precision Hunter and gets out to 300yds fine, but struggles at 400, which I knew was coming because he didn't want to try dialing in, he just wanted to hold over. So after figuring out his hold over at 300 and 400yd, I advised him to let the 30-06 cool and try the 300wsm. Of course, same story with it.
While this is going on, my other Sil is pretty much going thru the same thing with his M&P Sport II and Axis 22-250 . He's a couple benches over with the friend spotting for him. So I've set up my tripod in between thier benches and convinced them to take a break and let me and the friend shoot a couple times while their guns cool. So I get out my X-Bolt 300wm, which I've already doped out to 600 and have written on back of my lense cover. I proceed to stand behind my tripod and nail each gomg out to 300, then start dialing and ringing each shot out to 600.
They suddenly were interested in learning how to do that.
So we spent the rest of the afternoon figuring out thier dope for each of thier rifles and a couple of mine.
To top it all off, we had to stop occasionally and let deer get out from in front of the targets. Drove them nuts that they couldn't shoot one, but I made sure they knew they weren't getting me kicked out of my club over a deer.
Wish I had video of some it, but it was a great day I know they're gonna remember it for some time.
Took them to my club's range and we had it to ourselves all afternoon.
Was able to help them all get hits out to 650yds with thier rifles and a few of mine.
None of them are extremely gun savy, but my youngest Sil (youngest daughters husband) is an avid Coyote hunter. None of them were accustomed to shooting past 300yds and it showed when they moved to the 400yd target.
So my oldest Sil (my oldest daughter's husband) is in for the week from New Mexico, brought his Axis II 30-06 and his new 110 in 300wsm.
He bought the 300wsm on a whim and didn't realize how hard ammo is to find for it. So I found some brass and dies at LGS and had to work up a load for him the other day. Fortunately I found an accurate one pretty quickly with H4831sc and 178eldx. We zeroed his rifles 1 1/2" high at 100yds just like I normally do mine and my other Sil's.
So he starts on the bench with the 30-06 using his factory Precision Hunter and gets out to 300yds fine, but struggles at 400, which I knew was coming because he didn't want to try dialing in, he just wanted to hold over. So after figuring out his hold over at 300 and 400yd, I advised him to let the 30-06 cool and try the 300wsm. Of course, same story with it.
While this is going on, my other Sil is pretty much going thru the same thing with his M&P Sport II and Axis 22-250 . He's a couple benches over with the friend spotting for him. So I've set up my tripod in between thier benches and convinced them to take a break and let me and the friend shoot a couple times while their guns cool. So I get out my X-Bolt 300wm, which I've already doped out to 600 and have written on back of my lense cover. I proceed to stand behind my tripod and nail each gomg out to 300, then start dialing and ringing each shot out to 600.
They suddenly were interested in learning how to do that.
So we spent the rest of the afternoon figuring out thier dope for each of thier rifles and a couple of mine.
To top it all off, we had to stop occasionally and let deer get out from in front of the targets. Drove them nuts that they couldn't shoot one, but I made sure they knew they weren't getting me kicked out of my club over a deer.
Wish I had video of some it, but it was a great day I know they're gonna remember it for some time.
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