Steel bunny at 1205 yards

[deadidarren]

G'day all Darren from Australia have not posted this before because I didn't think it was good enough for this forum although I have seen lately that it might fit .
I do this quite often with my 260 Remington Tikka tac A1 it is still factory even though the muzzle has bellmouthed .
I cannot believe they put such a small thread on the barrel scope is a Nightforce 5.5 to 22 by 56 MOAR rec this is a very expensive set up in my country at $7500 .

And this is a video because I never remember to zoom out just to show you how far it is

Cheers D

I hope this worked from memory these are 747 or 3 can't remember.

And this one is a rusty steel rabbit follow the vapour trail you will see it connect just at the right about a torso and a half right or and the same low.
love my steel plates .

 

[Bocephus]

G'day all Darren from Australia have not posted this before because I didn't think it was good enough for this forum although I have seen lately that it might fit .
I do this quite often with my 260 Remington Tikka tac A1 it is still factory even though the muzzle has bellmouthed .
I cannot believe they put such a small thread on the barrel scope is a Nightforce 5.5 to 22 by 56 MOAR rec this is a very expensive set up in my country at $7500 .

And this is a video because I never remember to zoom out just to show you how far it is

Cheers D

I hope this worked from memory these are 747 or 3 can't remember.

And this one is a rusty steel rabbit follow the vapour trail you will see it connect just at the right about a torso and a half right or and the same low.
love my steel plates .

Good job, Mate!

 

[BlueWater]

Hitting a rabbit-sized steel at 1200yds seems fairly accurate, to me. Good shooting.

I'm still "fumbling" along in the 300-500yd distances, myself. Getting back into rifle shooting after a 10+ year hiatus. But I figure the old "tortoise & hare" stories are poignant. I'll get there eventually.

 

[deadidarren]

Hitting a rabbit-sized steel at 1200yds seems fairly accurate, to me. Good shooting.

I'm still "fumbling" along in the 300-500yd distances, myself. Getting back into rifle shooting after a 10+ year hiatus. But I figure the old "tortoise & hare" stories are poignant. I'll get there eventually.

Yes we all started that way helps build character .
the one thing that still Gets Me Everytime is the wind I am hopeless at reading the wind .

 

[Kracken McGraw]

Hey, I think you shot the Easter Bunny!

 

[BlueWater]

Yes we all started that way helps build character .
the one thing that still Gets Me Everytime is the wind I am hopeless at reading the wind .

Character, eh? Yeah, okay. As good a way of looking at it as anything, I suppose. Glad to hear there's some benefit to it.

I'm only somewhat effective at reading the wind, too. Did most of my rifle shooting 10-20yrs ago, at a range that had several small hills the 200-600yd rifle range crossed. Created the devil's own problem (the wind reading). It'd go this way, then that way farther out, then swirl around at a different speed out near the gully. Impossible to know for certain, and all but impossible to time a shot correctly.

My current range is fairly flat, but has a "toilet bowl" effect of swirling wind along the tree line, which exacerbates any little blip in the wind. It can be left to right 5mph 100yds out, but then swirl back 10mph right to left quartering at 300yds, and stranger as it reaches the rise/berms near the targets. Loads of fun. At least there's the opportunity to plant a series of flags, where as my old range had no such opportunity.

They say what doesn't kill ya makes ya stronger. We'll see.

 

[David Milisock]

Character, eh? Yeah, okay. As good a way of looking at it as anything, I suppose. Glad to hear there's some benefit to it.

I'm only somewhat effective at reading the wind, too. Did most of my rifle shooting 10-20yrs ago, at a range that had several small hills the 200-600yd rifle range crossed. Created the devil's own problem (the wind reading). It'd go this way, then that way farther out, then swirl around at a different speed out near the gully. Impossible to know for certain, and all but impossible to time a shot correctly.

My current range is fairly flat, but has a "toilet bowl" effect of swirling wind along the tree line, which exacerbates any little blip in the wind. It can be left to right 5mph 100yds out, but then swirl back 10mph right to left quartering at 300yds, and stranger as it reaches the rise/berms near the targets. Loads of fun. At least there's the opportunity to plant a series of flags, where as my old range had no such opportunity.

They say what doesn't kill ya makes ya stronger. We'll see.

A couple decades ago they took up terracing all the farm fields, pretty much all done now. Played havoc with the varmint shooting in fields that had been easily used for 25 years before.

 

[Rsadams]

Very nice...

 

[deadidarren]

Character, eh? Yeah, okay. As good a way of looking at it as anything, I suppose. Glad to hear there's some benefit to it.

I'm only somewhat effective at reading the wind, too. Did most of my rifle shooting 10-20yrs ago, at a range that had several small hills the 200-600yd rifle range crossed. Created the devil's own problem (the wind reading). It'd go this way, then that way farther out, then swirl around at a different speed out near the gully. Impossible to know for certain, and all but impossible to time a shot correctly.

My current range is fairly flat, but has a "toilet bowl" effect of swirling wind along the tree line, which exacerbates any little blip in the wind. It can be left to right 5mph 100yds out, but then swirl back 10mph right to left quartering at 300yds, and stranger as it reaches the rise/berms near the targets. Loads of fun. At least there's the opportunity to plant a series of flags, where as my old range had no such opportunity.

They say what doesn't kill ya makes ya stronger. We'll see.

I hear you on that if you look closely at the video especially the zoom out you will see three Gullies , in the late afternoon as the air cools I copy a left-to-right downdraft across all three that can make things very interesting

 

[BlueWater]

I hear you on that if you look closely at the video especially the zoom out you will see three Gullies , in the late afternoon as the air cools I copy a left-to-right downdraft across all three that can make things very interesting

Yup. Updrafts, downdrafts, swirling, complete change of direction at different points along such ridges/gullies. Depending where the airflow comes in and exists from such terrain. Depending on the heat differentials. Gee, I just love wind. There aren't wind flags in existence that can show the full horror of what wind can do, sometimes.

Of course, that's half the fun, figuring all of that out.

I've often wondered if Mother Nature's sittin' out there watching, thinking "Let's see if the putz can handle thiiiiis ... shazam!" Bring it on.

 

[deadidarren]

Haha yep I have here some a 6m lengths of galvanised pipe i was thinking of putting up some wind flags on those gullys but I consider that cheating so never bothered .