300 yard shooting

[kris bassett]

Well I made it to the range this afternoon to shoot my new load at 300 yards. I'm not sure what to think? I am going to make another trip in the early morning because the mirage was terrible today with the range having soaked in the sun all day. I mostly wanted to check my drop at 300. It looks like I'm dropping about 2 moa from a 100 yard zero. I shot one group without any scope adjustment, one with 2moa on the turret and then I decided to shoot one shot at each diamond on a new target. Well, mock away lol

 

[Fuj]

Time to tune......

 

[djporter]

Some details, caliber, bullet, powder etc.. If that’s a 300 Win mag your good to go.

 

[kris bassett]

6mmbr
90gr lapua scenar-L
Viht n540
Fed gold match
3216 fps average

Shooting extremely well at 100 yards. like I said the mirage was very bad, it was hard to make sure you were actually on the bullseye.

 

[marchx]

Mirage can kill the effect. My advice: do the testing early in the morning about 7am. below me testing zero at 300m earlier this week (29degrees celsius).

 

[Bill K]

As mentioned head out early, with no wind or mirage and see how that load does. If it holds about the same, then you need to work up a better one for 300 yrd MOA.

 

[L.Sherm]

7am? I'm at the azz crack of tom I call it, 5am I'm setting targets up, shooting by 5:20 - 5:30 am

 

[L.Sherm]

My thoughts are even though mirage was bad both groups show vertical and 1 good outlier. Have you tried shooting any OCW powder tests?

 

[kris bassett]

I got up at 5:30 this morning. There was zero wind and the temperature was about 60 degrees. Not only were conditions better but I felt better. I also used some better targets. I took some pics of my setup and the range for you. All in all it was a much better session!

What ya think?

 

[JFrank]

I’ve never had any luck with those soft Protektor bags, too much roll/ movement and not enough stable tracking.
Some guys can do it, I’m just not one of them.

 

[kris bassett]

I’ve never had any luck with those soft Protektor bags, too much roll/ movement and not enough stable tracking.
Some guys can do it, I’m just not one of them.

I'm actually working on a replacement, I agree that is has a lot of roll. I'm also not sure about this bag rider? I think I liked my old one better. I may put it back on.

What do you use for a rear rest?

 

[JFrank]

I use a hard bottom thick leather bag from Protektor in the rear and Edgewood front.

 

[Bill Norris]

I use a hard bottom thick leather bag from Protektor in the rear and Edgewood front.

That hard bottom rear bag seems more stable for me as well.

 

[kris bassett]

I would like to give this a try.

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[kris bassett]

This is the information I got out of Ballistics-x.
Can anyone breakdown what all the sd info means?

 

[Owens85]

I got up at 5:30 this morning. There was zero wind and the temperature was about 60 degrees. Not only were conditions better but I felt better. I also used some better targets. I took some pics of my setup and the range for you. All in all it was a much better session!

What ya think?

If that seat that's attached swings to the other side I'd suggest using a seat that's not attached to the bench.

 

[X-Caveman]

Not that it’s a bad thing, but that’s not a benchrest setup. It’s not going to track, return to battery, etc. If it were mine, I would ditch the front bag for a nice bipod, turn the rear bag around and use it as a squeeze bag for elevation control (you may need to deflate it a bit). Needs to be a relaxed, natural point of aim with no straining, reaching, tensing up, etc. With some practice, you’ll be able to stack them close. Not competitive benchrest close, but possibly good enough for what you’re trying to do.

 

[EEP]

The SD’s in your example here (shots relative to one another on target as measured by inches/MOA) suggest what you can expect on target from those same variables given a similar sample size with no other changes in the many vairables of shooting. If you’ve got your bench manners in check, ambient conditions don’t change, rifle in same condition, the same load should produce the results on target very close to your SD. I hope I didn’t confuse you.

 

[kris bassett]

The SD’s in your example here (shots relative to one another on target as measured by inches/MOA) suggest what you can expect on target from those same variables given a similar sample size with no other changes in the many vairables of shooting. If you’ve got your bench manners in check, ambient conditions don’t change, rifle in same condition, the same load should produce the results on target very close to your SD. I hope I didn’t confuse you.

Thanks much! No confusion! Bench manners are probably my downfall lol I've never shot with a benchrest shooter. Everything I've ever done has been self learned so.......