My best 3-shot group do-date!

[mpthole]

Hey all -

I just had to share this with some folks. The picture below is of my best 3-shot group ever! The target is a 5.5 inch Shoot-n-See. The shot was taken from 485 yards as measured by my laser range finder. The gun was my Rem 700 in .308, shooting Fed Gold Medal Match 168 gr HPBT.

As you can see, two of the shots hit the target. The third is just outside the target to the left. It formed an almost perfect triangle just over 1.5 inches center-to-center.

Guess I should have taken the 1/4 click of left windage off!

 

[Art Eatman]

Excellent!

Now do it again.

, Art

 

[Warbow]

Nice shootin'! What kind of scope are you using?

 

[mpthole]

Thanks guys! I hope to do that again soon, but will have to get there again before the corn gets too high. The day that I shot that group I ran a new ballistics chart using the JBM website. That new chart made all the difference... my old chart was way off.

Anyway, the scope is a Leupold Mark 4 M1, fixed 10 power with a mil-dot reticle and luminous posts (installed by Premier Reticles). The rings and mounts are all Leupold Mark 4.

Here's a picture of the rifle.

 

[HankB]

Groups are usually FIVE shots . . . TEN in benchrest competition.

How many holes are being covered by your hand?

 

[Master Blaster]

I think thats great shooting if it were at 100 yards it would be one hole.

I am not a great benchrest shooter, I concentrate more towards the practical aspects my self. For me I usually shoot at 100 yards (longest at my club), and I live in a populated area so there are not any fields to shoot in. I dont post my groups because of smug comments like the one above.

Very few folks are actually capable of those one hole 10 shot groups and often they have a few thousand dollars in rifle equipment and years of practice and load development to do it.

Then there's folks on the internet who OF COURSE DO IT ALL THE TIME WITH BOTH EYEs CLOSED.

 

[RevDisk]

Nice shooting. Personally, I prefer variable scopes rather than fixed, but to each their own. Impressive for a near 500 yard shooting.

Keep workin it, there's always room for improvement.

 

[Wildalaska]

Excellent!

Who painted your stock?


WildgoodshootinAlaska

Wildgood

 

[yankytrash]

Charts, CHARTS?!?

So, using the chart, shooting a 1.5" group at roughly 500 yards, aren't you shooting a negative moa?

Mighty fine shootin....I'm happy with that group at 200 yards

 

[mpthole]

The stock is an older McMillan A4(?) model... I think. I'm guessing it came that way from McMillan. I bought the rifle as-is about two years ago, from a police sharpshooter in IN. He told me he had it through several schools and had won a couple of matches with it.

I'm going to post some of my 200 yard groups tonight or tomorrow... 5-shot groups this time.

As far as variable vs. fixed power scopes... I like both I guess. I have a 6.5-20x50mm Leupold on my Barrett and the variable power is nice in some situations. I try to shoot it at 10x or less (the mil-dots on that scope only subtend at 10x) because that way I figure it more resembles the picture I'll see when looking through my Rem 700 - but also allows for quicker recovery so that I might actually be able to see my hit/impact. The 20x option is nice for helping spot for my buddies when they're shooting and all we have out in the field is our rifles and no spotting scope.

This weekend I may have the opportunity to try that group again. Hopefully Friday evening will be as calm as this past Saturday.

 

[M2 Carbine]

Very nice group for almost 500 yards.

A few months ago a friend shot an inch and an eight group and I shot a one inch group with his 7mm Mag at 300 yards.
Almost makes me want to get a 7 Mag.

 

[Dave P]

Then there's folks on the internet who OF COURSE DO IT ALL THE TIME WITH BOTH EYEs CLOSED.

Yeah, that's not too bad for only 500 yrds, but my buddies cousin can do that with his 22 at 1000 yrds! And he can't even spell "intenet"!!

Dave

 

[Mike Hull]

Great group for the range. Good looking rifle too.

 

[mpthole]

Here's a picture of a 5-shot group I did at 200 yards the day before the 500 yard group.

 

[JohnKSa]

I'm thinking a few of the folks who responded didn't notice that this group was shot at 485 yards.

 

[HankB]

That's a respectable 5-shot group at 200 - looks to be just over an inch CTC. Do you usually get horizontal stringing, or is it just a crosswind thing?

 

[mpthole]

It was a cross-wind thing. The group that I shot immediately before that group posted above, one was directly on the center of the target and three were within 3/4" of the center for a 4-shot 5/8" group ... the fifth shot (actually the first I took of the string) was the cold bore shot and about 2 inches low and 2 inches left.