Dusty Stevens
Shiner
800 yard test with the first lot of Sierra 155 grain match bullets from a rifle with a 3.7 pound trigger...
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Shots 1 and 2 were from a cold, clean barrel.
Why is it cut into that shape?
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800 yard test with the first lot of Sierra 155 grain match bullets from a rifle with a 3.7 pound trigger...
View attachment 1055660
Shots 1 and 2 were from a cold, clean barrel.
Although not as impressive as Jade's F-TR record, this 200-11X F-Open target was shot on Camp Pendleton's notorious Range 117 with my .300 WSM. It is also twenty-three shots, with sighters. F-Class rifles can shoot.A very impressive and notable accomplishment !.!.!
Do you happen to have a picture of the target? (would be cool to see it)
Best Regards
Why is it cut into that shape?
Yep... he draws it like a gun !.!.!I'm more surprised it took this long before he trotted that one out... it's pretty much his one hole card for about anything.
Somebody better tell those British & Aussie Match Rifle shooters that what they're trying to do is impossible:
http://www.matchrifle.org/
I'm more surprised it took this long before he trotted that one out... it's pretty much his one hole card for about anything.
There was a report some years back in the US Teams Long Range Shooting Forum about a GB MR touring team visit to some upland range in your part of the world - in NSW? - and the resulting competition. IIRC the longest range shot over was somewhere between 1,400 and 1,500 yards and it said that the markers reported bullets (210gn SMKs and Bergers) were still supersonic at this distance which is impressive even taking the altitude and air temperature into account.
I've looked many times for this thread in more recent times, but never managed to find it again using the forum's search facility.
The MR guys and girls have long held my admiration. I'd like to have had a try myself, but living in Yorkshire I'm pretty well midway between the two UK MR venues, Bisley and Blair Atholl, it's just too much travelling.
Edit ....... just found the range I was thinking of through the Match Rifle Australia link you put up. Coonabarabran in NSW and the maximum stage distance shot in the GB V Australia MR match was 1,500 yards. Not bad for 308 Win!
Egg shape groups deserve egg shape trimming out of the foam core 2 foot square artboard. That is a work of art ain't it?Why is it cut into that shape?
The old Hornady 208s, 210 VLD & 215 Hybrid Bergers can shoot tighter than the 1200 2 MOA bullseye at 1200 yards; 1500 is a tad more problematic but it's a pain that ballistic theory often doesn't stand the test of practice.I believe it, but you would have run a Berger hybrid 200 at 2,900 muzzle V to hit 1,500 yards right at Mach. There’s a lot of transonic yardage on the way there. A 210 VLD must start even faster. That velocity is cake to reach with 155’s but I don’t know what the heavies would do to brass that warm. (155’s would be subsonic at 1,500 yards even if launched at 3,500).
Edit ....... just found the range I was thinking of through the Match Rifle Australia link you put up. Coonabarabran in NSW and the maximum stage distance shot in the GB V Australia MR match was 1,500 yards. Not bad for 308 Win!
A 3 1/2 inch ruler? What else do you measure with that?800 yard test with the first lot of Sierra 155 grain match bullets from a rifle with a 3.7 pound trigger...
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Shots 1 and 2 were from a cold, clean barrel.
Half a stack of $100 dollar bills won from a bunch of long range benchresters that bet a 308 couldn't shoot sub half MOA groups at any range past 600. The other half stack I gave back to them to pay for psychotherapy recovering from being proved wrong.A 3 1/2 inch ruler? What else do you measure with that?
Yes.Is that a target or a sanitary pad?
"Fliers".Why is it cut into that shape?