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[ptonsparky]

Never think about shooting ranges. We just haul stuff out to the pasture & shoot. 1/2 mile. Not that I can hit anything at that distance.

 

[jrannis]

started on top left....with a 62 grain berger benchrest bullet.
for benchrest, you load the cartridges at the range, right on the
shooting line. you'll vary the powder during the day, as the temperature
changes.

rifle was a sako 6 ppc -w- 36x leupold scope. fire formed casings,
hand matched. barrel was a shilen stainless 6mm benchrest barrel.

the target was a particularly nice section of a BR-100 target.

there are ten targets like that one on a card. a perfect score is
a 50 shot quarter inch group, with different aiming points for
each shot. the innermost ring is .25" larger than the bullet diameter.
so, if you can shoot 50 shots without breaking the innermost ring,
that is a perfect score.

it's just about as difficult as bowling 50 strikes in a row, with a 1
pound ball, in a high wind, looking at the pins thru a beaker of
boiling water... a 36x scope amplifies heat waves coming off the
ground on a sunny day, and for that matter, heat waves off of
a hot gun barrel..... in the summer, the mirage thru the scope can
get so bad it's difficult to even find the target.

randy

That is a nice challange.
I thought we really were doing something at the range in the Corps when we where hitting Delta targets at 500 yards with just iron sites and ball ammo.

 

[Fulthrotl]

That is a nice challange.
I thought we really were doing something at the range in the Corps when we where hitting Delta targets at 500 yards with just iron sites and ball ammo.

um, you *were* doing something..... doing head shots on a dime
at 100 yards isn't nearly as difficult as what you were doing....

with a good target scope (leupold 36x BR) the crosshairs will neatly
quarter a .22 caliber bullet hole at 100 yards. the windage and elevation
adjustments are micrometer style, and can move the point of impact
exactly 1/4" at 100 yards, per click. usually i'll put a pen mark on the
target off to one side, and aim for that, so i don't shoot out my aiming
point.

but iron sights at 500 yards? you hit something with that, and they might
very well clang when you walk.....