76 miles No ammo

[swampratt]

I went to shoot yesterday to get my drops at 200-300 and 400 yards.
I forgot my ammunition for my 5.56 AR.
At least I had my 30-06 and my 18" barrel .308 I got the drops for the .308 but the 30-06 needs a barrel cleaning as I have been shooting 155 A-Max and also shooting cast loads in it.
It shot terrible yesterday at 200 and 300 yards I shot a couple at 400 and normally it will shoot under 4" I got over 12"..

Not every day turns out swell.

But the .308 held tight in the 25 MPH winds.
Really wanted to test the AR and the trigger mods.

 

[adamsredlines]

Thats a bummer man...it happens though.
At least you had SOMETHING to shoot even thought it didnt do as well as you had hoped.

 

[swampratt]

Yea at least I did not just have to drive back home empty handed.
I mostly needed drops for the .308 as the bullet does not follow the advertised BC at all.
It is a 155 A-Max and seems to fly better than the numbers predict.
100 yard zero.
10" down @ 300 yards and 25.7" down at 400.

With my Tasco target varmint 6-24 scope that makes it 1 mil @ 300 on 10 power and 2 mil at 12 power at 400 yards

My 200 yard is 1/2 mil at 12 power.

I did not go for 500 yards, got tired of walking.

I actually circle the impacts on the paper walk back to shooting area and look through the scope and find the circled area and adjust power until a mil dot lines up with impact point.

That has worked really well for me

 

[FreeSpiritBalloon]

Where did you go that was 76 miles away? Not Banner Rd, I guess. Sounds like a little lead fowling will spread out the group size. Following with interest as I hope to get into medium and long range shooting someday but don't even know where the good ranges are. You can't take too many different firearms to the range.


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[swampratt]

I went to a friends property in Asher.
Copper fouling will do it also. It is a mix of the 2 I would bet. got some pretty blue coming out of the barrel as we speak.

I only shot 2 rounds each from the .308 at 300 and 400 yards, Off the top of my car for a rest.
Each of the 2 rounds were sized in a different die.
Testing which die was better.. kind of a draw.
Wind really blew the 400 yard, still in the 3" area and the 300 yard was .900" center to center.. just 2 rounds though.

This savage .308 is not too picky.