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Well only managed to get out once. It was rainy, cold and windy. Didn't set any records, but always good to get out.

Unlim - Kimber 82G, bench, I see it a 125

Sporter - Marlin 39a w/peeps, bench w/bags -- usually I'll try to shoot from a position. It was nasty and I was lazy, so shot off the bench and used bags so OK to DQ me. Thought I'd post a good target from an old shooter. This 39a was made in 1953, the last year for Ballard rifling IIRC and I was having fun! Scored an 82.

Going to be gone for a while fellas, might not be back in time for next month. Congrats to all on the great shooting!
 

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Good shootin' shootr! Enjoy your vacation.

Hoping that this one will prove both accurate and consistent...otherwise I might have to send it on its way. Those Boyd's stocks sure are comfortable though...almost like a McMillan. FWIW, I think you can get yours to shoot consistently as well, just need to tune your magazine for better feeding. I have a buddy that owns one (just a basic model with heavy bbl, syn. stock, and accutrigger) and it has proven to shoot quite well.

BTW, Happy Easter guys!

:)
 
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Nope Maverick I lost the password and can't get it back. I don't even remember the email address I used to get that id. I named this new id after a guy who I chat with on a gun chat room online. His name is carl and he owns a sako model 41 in 338 lapua besides many other sweet guns. Lol. It's a nick name I gave him a long time ago.
 
Why don't you post a picture on here on that 17 hmr MKII TR when you get it? Dude 22s and 17 hmrs are way to easy for me to do bullseyes with at 25 yards if they are scoped and if I have them on a table or bench while shooting. I can do bullseyes all day with 22 and 17hmr rifles at 25 yards.
 
Why do you need 20 power on a 17 hmr when those are only good for 25 yards?
 
Need had nothing to do with it. :D But the added magnification should come in mighty handy for spotting those needle holes at 50-100yds (without need for a spotting scope).

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You're joking...right? I plan to shoot at 15-200yds. or better, and will probably play around at the 300yd line (though wind will wreak havoc at this distance).

FWIW I still haven't had the chance to attempt 300yds. with my .22LR (either weather, wind, or schedule), but i'll probably take the new M-93R17-TR out there when I do. You guys will be the first to hear about it...be it good bad or indifferent.

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I just heard the fall rate is real bad on a 22 in 100 yards
so I thought they wouldn't be good at 100 yards or more. I heard 5.56x45mm is the most accurate at 100 yards.
 
I wish I could buy one of them in 22 the short action one but I owe to much on credit cards and I already have a rifle. Lol. It just would be sweet to own and use a rifle that is that trick for that cheap and the ammo would be cheap. 17hmr ammo is to high so I like 22 better. I only get 674 a month and most of it goes to my credit card bills. After that 200 of it goes to me for spending on whatever.
 
carlsako, the .22LR certainly has a "rainbow trajectory", but that doesn't prevent one from utilizing it at 100yds. (even on small game/varmints) to good effect. Much past that, things get a bit more tricky. Good ammo is the most important aspect, as most standard velocity .22LR will go subsonic at about 75yds. and the fastest will peter out at about 110yds or so. Subsonic match fodder is the only way to go for "long range" plinking, because what it lacks in velocity/trajectory is more than made up for with precision and not having to worry about transonic deviation.

The .17HMR provides a bit more effective range, and does so whilst staying supersonic for more than double the distance of .22LR (though it does so at the expense of a significant loss of energy at longer ranges). Ammunition cannot really be considered to be more costly, because it equals all but the best .22LR, which is on average more costly. It simply occupies a different spectrum of use...in other words: my .22LRs are going nowhere.

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I shot my Marlin 795 at 300 yards the last time I was at the range Mav. Once I took a few shots to get the drop right and the drift right I was hitting a group of maybe 18" or so. But I was shooting off hand when I did it. Not bad but not great either.
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I'd not call that bad, particularly firing off-hand. I'll be firing prone with bipod, so hopefully I can best your performance and get it down to a standard sheet of notebook paper (honestly I'm hoping for a bit better than that)...we'll see.

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Maverick I hope you can show me a picture what you can do with your new 17 hmr at 100 yards. Have you ever done any videos on youtube?
 
I'll be more than happy to post up a few photos of targets (btw next month's match is planned for a 50/100yd. shoot), but I haven't a video camera (and honestly have little interest in one) so I haven't done any YouTube videos. Furthermore I'm not one to retain paper targets (most of my LR shooting is done on steel), otherwise i'd post a photo of 100yds. with a .22LR.

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The 795 is so light it's easy to shoot offhand Mav. I can't do that with all my .22's especially if they're heavy.
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Same here, I tend to do better with a modest weight rifle when shooting offhand. I recently got out the Remington Model 12 and was surprised how well it did offhand, despite the mediocre ammo (was using Aguila Super Colibris) and sights (stock open sights with a fairly short sight radius). It handles better than my Stevens 87D (though this will probably stay my primary squirrel hunting rifle because of accuracy and the ability to be scoped), which doesn't do too bad either.

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Hehehe, that's a good story. Who wants to get squirrel guts in their barrel anyway?!? :D

To be perfectly honest nothing like that comes to mind at the moment, but we all have a lack of concentration from time to time. I can tell you with confidence that I have missed my fair share of easy shots due to sheer stupidity (an engaged safety most often being the culprit).

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Great shooting, Jeff. You nearly eeked out a perfect score!...which means we have a 3-way tie.

:)
 
Woo Hoo! Work computer's finally back up and running, so I finally have access to scanner again. Of course, now I can't blame my lack of productivity on the POS they had me working on in the meantime, but that's another story.

Same rifle as always:
Savage Mark II
Nikon 6-18x40 Buckmaster
Shooting off a Harris Bipod
Wolf Match ammo
at 50 yards



Carlsako, as others have said, 22s can be plenty accurate out to 100 yards or farther and the 17s even farther. You just have to mindful of the significant effect wind will have on it. Having a canted scope base helps a lot too, my 10-22 couldn't reach 100 meters without one.
 
I have a savage mkII FV and it doesn't seem to get the accuracy that all of you seem to get out of your rifles. Wolf match generally groups over an inch on average at 50 yds, and a box of eley match just around an inch (5 shot groups.) I tried to take myself as much out of the equation as possible (i.e. used a ton of sandbags to stabilize the rifle and I basically only touched the trigger) and those were pretty much standard results. Any tips on what I can do to "accurize" it a bit?
 
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