Thread: FINALLY got my LR come ups

Happy as a pig chocker up a sow in a stye full of mud huh Maca?

I dont make a pig of myself anymore Rushy that comes with age as well!!

Having somebody set it up is something I snorted at - but this time I've seen the benefits of it being done right on. I had the correct bore attachment and a collimator used, i thought "oh yeah but". But-nothing! My cold clean shot hit low and left 3 clicks - it then settled right on. I've never seen that before

Drill and tap a block of steel and mount a rail to it. should be heavy enough to not move when clicking the turrets

A piece of 150x50 with ply screwed on each side, half-circles of the appropriate diameter for the tube to rest in, sash clamped back to a bench in this case. It can be clamped to whatever is handy at the local sports field or the range for checking things at 100m and beyond. Elastic is used to tension the scope down into the recesses and also prevent it from getting accidentally knocked onto the ground. Can rotate 90 to check windage on the same scale as elevation (see below).



This is the other end of the arrangement. The tripod gives flexibility for setting up at any distance. The bar in this case is marked up at 100mm spacings for confirming mrad at 100m.

Had a good day out today - A solid first round hit to a plate at 780m then these two on a 9" plate at 1010m. Feeling brave i tried the data off the app out to the 1200m gong and it only took 3 (for me that was 16.8 mils. Thanks again fellas - days like this improve the shooting immeasurably

Originally Posted by Dead is better

Had a good day out today - A solid first round hit to a plate at 780m then these two on a 9" plate at 1010m. Feeling brave i tried the data off the app out to the 1200m gong and it only took 3 (for me that was 16.8 mils. Thanks again fellas - days like this improve the shooting immeasurably


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Sweet shooting,thanks for the invite!

You were shooting like a man possessed. A first round hit at a kilometre followed up by another to prove it wasn't a fluke is legend mate. But I need to burst your bubble as the gong was ten inches not nine. Still under a minute of angle though. Well done.

HAHA bubble half burst - I'll meet you half way. 9.5" (it was a cold day and your targets had shrunk!!)

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HAHA bubble half burst - I'll meet you half way. 9.5" (it was a cold day and your targets had shrunk!!)

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OK I know you engineer types are tricky but how can you possibly measure something from a photograph without a reference?

That notebook is 148mm! Meh - Hits a hit I digress. I'da been happy hitting my 1m x 1m rubber board target I've been carting about lately.

I use Autocad to cheat all the time. It saves measuring up an elevation of a building if you take one measurement and then scale the photo in cad. As long as things are on the same focal plane (all you old guys who did tech drawing will know what I'm yapping on about). I just draw a line over the photo (say 148mm) and then use scale 'Scale' and the nested "reference" halfway through it.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/d...gns.targetCalc That's another program you can put on your phone that does scaling. Initially thought you had to have a 1inch square in the pic but you dont. Can be any known measurement

Good shootin

White mans magic. I feel ripped off now. I asked for that to be a 25cm gong. Still not to detract from the legendary shooting we should leave it at that.

HAHA I thought you'd put a ruler to it. If they are a bit smaller I'd say its because steel does shrink when you put extreme heat to it (like a cutting torch). He could have marked out a 10" disk and its just a bit smaller now?

My uncle once told me that welders have to factor this into making beams to keep them straight - Is this true or BS?

Shit bends as you weld it as the molten metal cools and shrinks.
Can lessen the effects but not stop it.

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