I had the opportunity to take a few friends out to the Mojave desert to do some shooting over Easter. We were mostly shooting orange clays. We set out some clays at a variety of distances between 50 and 150 yards/paces. We were all doing ok shooting off hand and having fun. After taking a lunch break, we resumed. But this time we placed some clays out about what we estimated by our golf yard paces to be about 230-250 yards or so into a dry lake bed onto two rubble hills. The clays were visible, but not real easy to see. We were resting the rifle on my range bag and sitting in a chair. After a little practice, I got to where I could solidly bust about one clay each clip, with the other rounds hitting very near.
I won our little shooting match when I broke two clays solidly in one clip of 8 rounds. My buddies were doing well to maybe get one clay every 2-3 clips, and that was not happening all the time. We had a blast and went through almost 2 whole spam cans that afternoon!
Anyway, that is the farthest distance I've ever shot my M1. Is hitting clays at 230-250 yards resting on a range bag decent shooting? I was real happy with it! I'm just wondering if the rest of you folks who regularly shoot these fantastic rifles would be satisfied with this level of accuracy!
I won our little shooting match when I broke two clays solidly in one clip of 8 rounds. My buddies were doing well to maybe get one clay every 2-3 clips, and that was not happening all the time. We had a blast and went through almost 2 whole spam cans that afternoon!
Anyway, that is the farthest distance I've ever shot my M1. Is hitting clays at 230-250 yards resting on a range bag decent shooting? I was real happy with it! I'm just wondering if the rest of you folks who regularly shoot these fantastic rifles would be satisfied with this level of accuracy!