Thanksgiving Long-range shooting photos

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Zak Smith

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I had a buddy come out from NC for two days of long-range shooting, and got a bunch of the local crew out on Thursday and Friday. Temps were mostly in the teens with morning highs in the 20's. Guns were the usual assortment of 308, various 6.5's, 338LM, and I had a couple 50BMG rifles in for testing.

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Must have been fun, especially laying prone on that cold, cold ground. Thanks for posting the pictures.
 
Looks fun - No better way to celebrate the freedoms we have to be Thankful for but out on a rifle shoot. Poor NC boys must have had the shivers - hope you gave them some warmup juice when they got back to your place.
 
For the long-range rifles, I use the Eagle Drag Bag, which is well padded and has external pockets to hold all the ancillary junk that goes along with those rifles (ammo, brass bag, tools, suppressor, rear bag/sock, data book, etc). They make it easy to throw 8 rifles in the bag of the car for a trip and not worry about anything. For the AR's and other stuff, I just use whatever random case I happen to find-- the cheap ones work well enough. I have some made by Assault Systems (now Elite Survivial Systems). They're just decently made nylon cases.

DMK,

At our usual spot on the public land, we hike out full-size IPSC steel plates, and smaller plates, and usually place them from about 500 yards out to 1000-1500 yards depending how motivated we are. Here's a sight-picture photo from last year of a target at about 1520
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WEG,

I went to adding an obvious copyright mark on my photos because people started stealing them and using them without permission.

salty,

The guy from NC was wearing long johns and literally 4 jackets. :D


Guns in photo #2, close to far:

Tubb 2000 in 6.5 Creedmoor with USO SN3.
AI-AW in 6.5x47 Lapua with S&B 3-12x50mm PMII.
AI-AWSM in 338LM with S&B 5-25x56mm PMII.
TRG-42 in 338LM with USO SN3.
Surgeon 308 with USO SN3.

The black one in photos #3 and #4 is a Dakota action in 338LM with a Nightforce.

The tan rifle in the last 3 photos is the Safety Harbor 50BMG with a Nightforce.
The other 50 is the Ultralite with a Leupold 3.5-10x40

-z
 
That looks very cold. I saw where you were recently in New Mexico, where it was, presumably, warmer. I would like to know if you find that your rifles experience changes in point of impact.
Mauserguy
 
With a good rifle with a 100-yard zero and a thermally-stable load (one that doesn't change muzzle velocity as the temp changes.. or doesn't change much), all you need to take into account is the change in atmospheric density-- which comes mainly from ambient temperature and station pressure (humidity is technically in there but has a very small effect). This is done by using different downrange data cards for the different conditions. For example, for every 1000' in altitude (or density altitude) or approx 15 degrees F, I need to adjust my point of aim at 1000 yards by about one 0.1-mil click. I normally pick a data card which has the right set of data for the expected conditions.
 
Hey Zak, out of curiosity, how was that Safety Harbor doing in terms of accuracy? Did it even come close to the AIs?
 
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There's a target in there 'eh? :D

Looks like a fun time, I wish we had the sort of space available locally to try some shooting like that.
 
Accuracy testing on paper will commence shortly-- out there we were just shooting steel. There's no fair comparison until (if) the 50BMG "match" ammo arrives. Comparing M33 ball to hand-crafted reloads isn't isn't really fair.

Soybomb, you can see it 3.5 mils right of center, 1 mil below center. White with a green dot in the middle.

-z
 
Very true. Walter's a good guy; someday if I had the money I might pick up one of his repeaters. Still hoping and wishing for the gas-operating semi though.
 
The pictured reticle is the S&B P4. I have since moved to the P4-Fine, which has line thickness about 50% of that one. The major hash marks are every 1 mil, the minor ones every 1/2 mil.

Here's a photo of the P4-Fine, on some targets at 650-700 yards. The scope magnification is probably around 6-8x in the photo (can't remember).
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I have a D70 and been trying to take photos of some various acogs and just can't seem to get it right.
 
I think it's probably easier with a P&S vs. a DSLR, because you can watch the LCD. You need to get the eye relief "just right" and it align left/right/up/down. It's much harder with the DSLR.

-z
 
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