I had been shooting prairie dogs for almost 20 years and my longest shot was about 400 yards when I hit an unlucky dog at 665 yards. It was May,04 I had put a 6.5-20x40 Leopold with mildot on my Ruger No. 3 .219 Wasp and was shooting dogs in S.D. I was laying on a pond dam shooting a valley about 350 yards wide when I spotted a adult dog on a large bare spot on the hill on the far side of the valley. I thought this would be a good time to play with the mildots in the scope. I didn't have any ballistic charts at the time and had just held high on anything beyond my 200 yard zero. First shot was about 50 feet short but walked it in till I connected with the 55 gr V-Max on about the tenth shot. Fast forward to May,09 first time out with my Ruger No. 1 .204 Wasp. Shooting 40gr V-Max at 4040 fps hit two at 634 yards, was up 8.5 on the scope from my 200 yd zero. After Hornady came out with the 75 and 80 gr A-max I decided to try for a 1000 yd shot. I had a Ruger No.3 rebarreled with a Shilen 7HV barrel with 8" twist. June,2012 Southeast of Zortman, Montana had a hit at 709 yards with 75gr A-Max. June, 2013 same area I had my longest hit at 915 yards. Cartridge is a wildcat of mine 30-30 case,1.900 case length, 35degree shoulder, load is 34.0gr H4350, 210M, 75gr A-Max, 3200 fps. I was up 23.0 inches on the scope from 200 yd zero. I was alternating shots with my shooting partner and connected on the fifth or sixth shot. Had shots at one over 1000 but didn't get a hit so fell short of my goal. Unfortunately that was the last time I was able to make the trip out west to shoot PD's. That 75gr A-Max does work extremely well on the coyotes here in Indiana. First pic is May 09 634 yd hit with Ruger No.1 .204 Wasp. Second pic is Ruger No.3 on the prairie June12 the day before 709 yd hit.
View attachment 1453178View attachment 1453181great shooting. nice table.
