A pal & I hit a ranch today that's pretty much a p-dog haven.
No pups out, but lots of fat adults. Shot an area then moved when they decided to stay down longer each time.
Shots were from 280-617 yards, with 280-360 yds on average, breeze was from 0-15 till after 2pm when it slowed down so we didn't have to hold shots into the wind.
I ran my Savage 223 build, suppressed, 24" ER shaw 1/14 tw bbl and him a TC 204 and 2 Savage builds in .223, (See I just need 1 gun)...hahaa
My max distance was 489 yards with a 50g vmax, his was 617 yards with the 204 & 46g custom bullet. We handload our own.
Both those pdogs just had a hole in them and flopped over. That far out neither bullet popped them to parts.
Started at 7am, last shot was 623pm. Pretty soon the fields will be packed full of pups for more excitement.
The .204 will do the long shot thing....just hold for breezes.
Many shots at 500-600yds were from 3-5 moa into the breezes.
He uses Athlon scopes, I use a Nikon Back x1000, 4-16x50 really like the MOA reticle on it.
All my shooting was pretty much 12x
My set up
.223 at 489 yds
204 ruger, 46g custom JHP at 617 yds
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.223 50g vmax at 289 yds
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No pups out, but lots of fat adults. Shot an area then moved when they decided to stay down longer each time.
Shots were from 280-617 yards, with 280-360 yds on average, breeze was from 0-15 till after 2pm when it slowed down so we didn't have to hold shots into the wind.
I ran my Savage 223 build, suppressed, 24" ER shaw 1/14 tw bbl and him a TC 204 and 2 Savage builds in .223, (See I just need 1 gun)...hahaa
My max distance was 489 yards with a 50g vmax, his was 617 yards with the 204 & 46g custom bullet. We handload our own.
Both those pdogs just had a hole in them and flopped over. That far out neither bullet popped them to parts.
Started at 7am, last shot was 623pm. Pretty soon the fields will be packed full of pups for more excitement.
The .204 will do the long shot thing....just hold for breezes.
Many shots at 500-600yds were from 3-5 moa into the breezes.
He uses Athlon scopes, I use a Nikon Back x1000, 4-16x50 really like the MOA reticle on it.
All my shooting was pretty much 12x
My set up
.223 at 489 yds
204 ruger, 46g custom JHP at 617 yds
[url=https://flic.kr/p/2fwYsMm]
.223 50g vmax at 289 yds
[url=https://flic.kr/p/2fwYtdG]
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