sappnasty
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Just to give the Socom model haters a range report today. I was blessed with the opportunity today to shoot at the best and longest range I have ever shot in my life. When I arrived, I was expecting maybe 200 yards at best. Here in Florida, unfortunately most ranges are limited between 200-300 yards at best. When I saw the distance, my jaw dropped....700 yards WITH steel targets. It was set up as follows....
100 yards: Paper targets
200 yards: Paper targets
300 yards: 3 1" thick steel swinging targets - One about the size of a medium pizza and the other two about the size of a softball.
400 yards: More steel similar to the ones at 300
500 yards: 2 "Buffalo" shaped steel swinging targets
700 yards: 3 3x3 square steel plates
An here is a picture to prove it...
Well, the point of this thread to finally prove a point. Several posts that I have made about my beloved Socom II are usually met with socom model haters and nothing but solid negative feedback. Well I can confidently say that I can now prove most of those skeptics or arm chair feedbackers WRONG.
I sat down and inserted the 10 round magazine into my Socom (which was already zeroed in at 100 yards)....After shooting a few of our AR's, I decided to brave it, and attempt to shoot the medium pizza sized round steel taget staring back at me from 300 yards away. Now I was really nervous to do this because I have never shot her that far before and after hearing what a
"terribly inaccurate rifle" she was after 100 yards (Accoring to the haters) I almost changed my mind. I was afraid that maybe they were right and I would have to walk away in shame with my most prized rifle that just couldn't get the job done. But I had faith in the ol' girl....
With a small sandband, I rested the rifle on the bench and I set the "fat" irons sights that are standard on the Socom (that everyone claimed would cover a man sized targer at 100) at the very top of the bright orange steel plate. I figured at 300 yards the bullet would drop a little so instead of messin' around with my irons I just KW'd it and fired off the first round....honestly I expected to hear silence...Then I grinned from ear to ear when I saw the puff of smoke, the plate swing and that gratifying DING! The next 9 rounds you ask? All the same as the first...it was the best 10 rounds I have ever shot in my life.
So now that my confidence was soaring, I decided to push the envelope and take her out to the 500 yard steel......Loaded the mag and set up the same as last time...fired the first round....nothing...second round nothing....then I though to myself that maybe I was aiming too high and not giving the rifle enough credit for what she can really do....So, I rested the front blade just above the steel plate and sent that 168 grain Sierra Match King BT whizzing down range and...PING! And the result was the same every round after till the mag was empty.
So to those of you that claim a Socom 16 or II is a "100 yard gun at best" can eat my shattered bullet fragments....I know now that I can accurately AND consistantly shoot an animal/man sized target out to 500 yards and probably farther on the right day. SO nanny nanny boo boo....you know the rest!
100 yards: Paper targets
200 yards: Paper targets
300 yards: 3 1" thick steel swinging targets - One about the size of a medium pizza and the other two about the size of a softball.
400 yards: More steel similar to the ones at 300
500 yards: 2 "Buffalo" shaped steel swinging targets
700 yards: 3 3x3 square steel plates
An here is a picture to prove it...
Well, the point of this thread to finally prove a point. Several posts that I have made about my beloved Socom II are usually met with socom model haters and nothing but solid negative feedback. Well I can confidently say that I can now prove most of those skeptics or arm chair feedbackers WRONG.
I sat down and inserted the 10 round magazine into my Socom (which was already zeroed in at 100 yards)....After shooting a few of our AR's, I decided to brave it, and attempt to shoot the medium pizza sized round steel taget staring back at me from 300 yards away. Now I was really nervous to do this because I have never shot her that far before and after hearing what a
"terribly inaccurate rifle" she was after 100 yards (Accoring to the haters) I almost changed my mind. I was afraid that maybe they were right and I would have to walk away in shame with my most prized rifle that just couldn't get the job done. But I had faith in the ol' girl....
With a small sandband, I rested the rifle on the bench and I set the "fat" irons sights that are standard on the Socom (that everyone claimed would cover a man sized targer at 100) at the very top of the bright orange steel plate. I figured at 300 yards the bullet would drop a little so instead of messin' around with my irons I just KW'd it and fired off the first round....honestly I expected to hear silence...Then I grinned from ear to ear when I saw the puff of smoke, the plate swing and that gratifying DING! The next 9 rounds you ask? All the same as the first...it was the best 10 rounds I have ever shot in my life.
So now that my confidence was soaring, I decided to push the envelope and take her out to the 500 yard steel......Loaded the mag and set up the same as last time...fired the first round....nothing...second round nothing....then I though to myself that maybe I was aiming too high and not giving the rifle enough credit for what she can really do....So, I rested the front blade just above the steel plate and sent that 168 grain Sierra Match King BT whizzing down range and...PING! And the result was the same every round after till the mag was empty.
So to those of you that claim a Socom 16 or II is a "100 yard gun at best" can eat my shattered bullet fragments....I know now that I can accurately AND consistantly shoot an animal/man sized target out to 500 yards and probably farther on the right day. SO nanny nanny boo boo....you know the rest!
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