As Big G says, guys don't try this at home.
DISCLAIMER
First off, I do not have a video camera and no metal
targets at 1,000 yard to sight in on. My 1000 yd spot
requires walking all the way and crossing a few fences
so no metal plates for sight in. Maybe in a few weeks
I will decide which video system to get, then I can try this
thing correctly with a white paper target and a colored egg
setting flush against the paper like a X in the ten ring.
So I realize that the method I used today could not be official
because it could be a skipped bullet, etc., etc.
That being said -- now the story
I thought about it all day at work Monday and was certain I was
going to go for the 1,020 yd on Tuesday conditions permitting.
Got up and started loading the truck and sent Shayne a text to
meet me at Rocky Top. Conditions were absolutely perfect.
No wind and cloudy. My floating dot in the March was very clear
at 25X and no parallax. I walked three eggs over to a spot that
lazered 1,020 yds in a spot of very short grass. On the way I picked
up a hedge apple to serve as a sight in target. I had a set of walky-
talkies and Shayne confirmed the eggs were visible. The walk involves
crossing two fences and is not a straight line. Took close to an hour to
make the trip. Now we are ready.
Conditions have gotten even better and the dot in the March is just
slightly smaller than the egg at 25X. I had up to 60-X but 25X was about
max to get back on the egg to see splash.
I dialed the elevation to 23 MOA and I was a little low and right with the first shot
on the hedge apple. I dialed it in and 25 moa was dead on. I took
maybe 5 sighters on the apple making a click or two of adjustment and
then my last two shots hit the same spot.
I told Shayne to watch the let egg and I touched shot #one off.
Hit really close at 8 o'clock. I quickly reloaded the BAT and held
just off the egg at 2 o'clock. Touched off #2 and was able to get
back on the egg in time to see white shells fragments in the air.
EGG DOWN
I repeat: DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME
Now I do not claim to have centered the egg. Maybe the bullet slid
along the ground like a torpedo and centered the egg.
What can't be denied is the egg exploded on second shot at 1,020 yd.
I told Shayne to crawl under the Bat and get it while it was hot.
4 or 5 shots and his egg disappeared off radar. We were spotting for
each other with a March 8-80X so it was HIGH DEFINITION.
Beautiful sight.
We shot a total of 14 times including sighters.
Shayne took no sighters.
Six shots on hedge apple
Six shots by Shayne on egg
Two shots by me on egg
Shayne behind spotting scope
Shots were made with
BAT 6 BRX
115 DTAC's
Vectronix Terapin range finder
Just before sunset of a beautiful day
DISCLAIMER
First off, I do not have a video camera and no metal
targets at 1,000 yard to sight in on. My 1000 yd spot
requires walking all the way and crossing a few fences
so no metal plates for sight in. Maybe in a few weeks
I will decide which video system to get, then I can try this
thing correctly with a white paper target and a colored egg
setting flush against the paper like a X in the ten ring.
So I realize that the method I used today could not be official
because it could be a skipped bullet, etc., etc.
That being said -- now the story
I thought about it all day at work Monday and was certain I was
going to go for the 1,020 yd on Tuesday conditions permitting.
Got up and started loading the truck and sent Shayne a text to
meet me at Rocky Top. Conditions were absolutely perfect.
No wind and cloudy. My floating dot in the March was very clear
at 25X and no parallax. I walked three eggs over to a spot that
lazered 1,020 yds in a spot of very short grass. On the way I picked
up a hedge apple to serve as a sight in target. I had a set of walky-
talkies and Shayne confirmed the eggs were visible. The walk involves
crossing two fences and is not a straight line. Took close to an hour to
make the trip. Now we are ready.
Conditions have gotten even better and the dot in the March is just
slightly smaller than the egg at 25X. I had up to 60-X but 25X was about
max to get back on the egg to see splash.
I dialed the elevation to 23 MOA and I was a little low and right with the first shot
on the hedge apple. I dialed it in and 25 moa was dead on. I took
maybe 5 sighters on the apple making a click or two of adjustment and
then my last two shots hit the same spot.
I told Shayne to watch the let egg and I touched shot #one off.
Hit really close at 8 o'clock. I quickly reloaded the BAT and held
just off the egg at 2 o'clock. Touched off #2 and was able to get
back on the egg in time to see white shells fragments in the air.
EGG DOWN
I repeat: DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME
Now I do not claim to have centered the egg. Maybe the bullet slid
along the ground like a torpedo and centered the egg.
What can't be denied is the egg exploded on second shot at 1,020 yd.
I told Shayne to crawl under the Bat and get it while it was hot.
4 or 5 shots and his egg disappeared off radar. We were spotting for
each other with a March 8-80X so it was HIGH DEFINITION.
Beautiful sight.
We shot a total of 14 times including sighters.
Shayne took no sighters.
Six shots on hedge apple
Six shots by Shayne on egg
Two shots by me on egg
Shayne behind spotting scope
Shots were made with
BAT 6 BRX
115 DTAC's
Vectronix Terapin range finder
Just before sunset of a beautiful day
