Funny thats what dad said too......Keep pulling that press handle.
Funny thats what dad said too......
Yeah heat can definitely be an issue, especially after the wind steals your pop-up.Tables can be hard to shoot of off especially cheap ones lol. Same with hoods. Even on the ground with a bipod helps to load it up. The wind up there is probably crazy, it just looks like it goes back and forth with that terrain.
Slowing down properly will help keeping the ammo temp consistent should help, even the round in the chamber could get heat soaked trying to make a shot. Big 7s do not hard and are fun on steel for sure.
If you're ever out here you're welcome to join us!Wish I could have been there with you guys, looks like a great day all round!
I actually just bought one! Gonna take some cleaning and a drop in floor mat (mostly used at work to haul green wast), and a bigger truck to pull it up Saddle, but I wanna use it for exactly that.We were out practicing for an upcoming antelope hunt on Thursday. Rancher says to expect shots out to 300, so we're stretching it a bit further. I set 4 pieces of steel out at unknown distances, then we practice lasing and shooting from different field positions while wearing the kit we'll hunt with. Basically a rehearsal & practice. Makes for a great way to "test" out the stuff you're planning on using, before finding out the hard way. Thursdays episode a good friend of mine learned that "when shooting kneeling and resting on the UTV bumper it's important to maintain your I relief distance, at least when using a .300WSM".
Luckily it only usually takes one repetition to sink in, and the blood didn't start to flow immediately.
Last rendition I learned that securing my tripod to my backpack in such a way that it takes an extra 5 minutes to get your 1st shot off, just isn't going to work...
Loonwulf,
You might want to look into something like my MSPA1 (Mobile Shooting Platform, A1 modification added plywood) which doubles as a utility trailer to fly under the wife's radar. here it keeps us out of the ticks/chiggers, there it will help with the rocks. It gives you about 18" of shooter height while prone to see over chit.
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It will also free up some space in your rig.
Heck of a hike!He is out West….just a liiiiiitle bit further West .
Stay safe.
"Bout an hour off"..........I have heard people talk about MOA in the store, people I'd bet a good bit that they didn't know what MOA meant in the real world. Had one guy say "MOA" so many times I thought I'd choke. So I asked him, if he was one degree off target and his target was 100 yards away, how far apart would his POA and POI be. He had no clue what I was talking about so we moved on to other topics. You start talking 500 yards + and hitting that steel is such a great feeling. Love that smile on his face.
Reminds me of one time my dad and I went to the rifle range at the old gun club with my Python and his .38 Official Police to do some 100 yard plinking. Problem was I'd grabbed a couple boxes of midrange match wadcutters I'd rolled up to take a newbie shooting (who chickened out on me, but that's another story) so we were sort of "howitzering" in those weak bullets, having to aim about a foot or more over our target. Got a lot of laughing done that day. Wish I'd taken pictures.
Ment to thank you earlier for rhe wind chart....but i forgot.....View attachment 1024377cool that you get to shoot with your dad, I missed that opportunity. A friend told me recently that long range success is sometimes knowing when not to shoot. Wind has cycles like the waves, predominant and secondary, get a flag and time the cycles. Oh yeah here's a wind chart givin to me by short range WR holder Rick Graham
Ment to thank you earlier for rhe wind chart....but i forgot.....
THANKS!
I was actually trying to use it this last trip.....still much more learning to do....
Hope you guys get it all worked out, and best of luck on your hunt!Loonwulf,
Based on your terrain, I'd probably be painting my steel black. That's some tough conditions for white. I use predominately white, because I'm on a darker background. Lately I've been using black and white, but use the black to represent a "kill zone", white's "technically" a miss. Went out back again this morning with one of our hunting party to practice. He's going to have to change up his rig....results were not good. He said while dry firing in his basement it looked like the way to go...
White on black:
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4 steel out to 600 (a little beyond what we expect to see on our hunt)
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Sitting with bipod:
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He's going to change it up, more dryfire, and we'll go out again WED after work, Friday we drive out to hunt. It's another one of those, "you're never as ready as you'd like to be" things. $500 a day and a $380 tag, so I'd rather not screw it up. Spending time sitting, either bipod or tripod really, really, makes me appreciate prone!
Did just that yesterday.
Ive been taking my dad up to shoot at longer and longer distances over the last month or two.
Hes purchased his own rifle and raided my stuff to equip it, been watching YouTube for tips and tricks, and we've been discussing shooting "long" range (For which my experience is limited at best, and he's pretty well exhausted what help I can give).
He doesn't really have a grasp of how the ballistic app on his phone works, so we're still using mine, but otherwise he's pretty self-sufficient in terms of setting up and making a shot now.
So.....now we're just working on shooting.
Neither of us is any good at gauging wind....I need to put out some little flags also, a theres a noticeable swirl in the bowl and the wind will change direction from gust to gust. Most of the misses we had were trying to figure out the new wind hold.
My gun wears a MIL scope and his has a MOA, so I didn't try to measure his misses, but Strelok pretty well called the vertical correction, tho we were consistently low so were holding top 1/2 of the plate.....still most of our misses were off left or right.
anyway fun day mostly watching him bang away.
oh we spent about 40rnds trying to hit with his AR, and neither of us managed to actually catch the plate, but 2 rounds when thru the 2x4 holder......that was an exercise in frustration......
loaded up....light day only 5 rifles (2 muzzleloaders that needed sighting for this upcoming weekend)
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the "range" and other randomness
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so...get out and shoot!
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You're right I should have used a different color, I don't generally have too much issue with the white on that background but I managed to put it directly in front of a grayish plant, And with the mirage and the greater distance, I know I took a couple of shots at the plant before I realized I was actually aiming off plate.
That bright pink splotch in the middle was actually pretty easy to see except the mirage moved it around quite a bit.... Next time I'm out I'll take some black as well as the white and pink..