Thread: Fun shoot tomorrow - rate yourself?

A deer silhouette with a 150mm gong in the hilar zone. One shot cold bore (not quite true cold bore on our range, rifles must validate at 100M before moving back).

Rate your skills at 480M . . . . Wind is forecast as 9 km/h from 45 degrees but coming over a row of big trees that run north/south on the edge of the range - makes it a bit tricky and those trees humble a lot of shooters!

You'll actually get two shots at the deer but only the first one counts, and there will be other gongs to play with if you want to fire more shots.

My hunting weight 6mm CM is shooting a very consistent 0.9 moa/10 shots just now. I'd rate my chances at about 50/50.

How would you rate yourself . . . .

How did it go?

Well, the wind. We started with 9km/h at 90 degrees but while we were running it the wind went "a bit puffy" and then within 15 minutes settled again at 9 km/h at 45 degrees (I get this data from the airport met station, about 900M away.).

One of our very experienced shooters ( he's done a lot practical style stuff, and is currently night shooting) was within one click of getting the 100M MOA 5 shots in the aiming point challenges done, and there were another couple of nice groups. My 100M effort had a flier, possibly shooter induced, I was having issues holding nice position.

The 8 of us went back to our 500Y mound, which makes it 480M to the gongs. The deer was set up with a 150mm gong. No shared wind calls allowed. Our best shooter as per above went first, shooting his heavy 280 AI, ding went the gong. I went next with my 6mm CM, a hunting weight rifle, 18x scope. 3.4 mils elevation, wind, what you doing? . . . puffy that's what, but with plenty of mirage which at least allowed it to be seen. Given this was a "hunter challenge" I didn't piss about, took a hold, watched it maybe 20 seconds, allowed 0.7 mil for wind and made a hit.

And that was it, one of the other hunter class guys got a second round hit. We were missing two or three of our top Practical shooting guys, the hit rate would have been higher if they'd come along.

Sorry no photos but I'm not too keen on putting stuff like this in the public domain.

Originally Posted by Tentman

Well, the wind. We started with 9km/h at 90 degrees but while we were running it the wind went "a bit puffy" and then within 15 minutes settled again at 9 km/h at 45 degrees (I get this data from the airport met station, about 900M away.).

One of our very experienced shooters ( he's done a lot practical style stuff, and is currently night shooting) was within one click of getting the 100M MOA 5 shots in the aiming point challenges done, and there were another couple of nice groups. My 100M effort had a flier, possibly shooter induced, I was having issues holding nice position.

The 8 of us went back to our 500Y mound, which makes it 480M to the gongs. The deer was set up with a 150mm gong. No shared wind calls allowed. Our best shooter as per above went first, shooting his heavy 280 AI, ding went the gong. I went next with my 6mm CM, a hunting weight rifle, 18x scope. 3.4 mils elevation, wind, what you doing? . . . puffy that's what, but with plenty of mirage which at least allowed it to be seen. Given this was a "hunter challenge" I didn't piss about, took a hold, watched it maybe 20 seconds, allowed 0.7 mil for wind and made a hit.

And that was it, one of the other hunter class guys got a second round hit. We were missing two or three of our top Practical shooting guys, the hit rate would have been higher if they'd come along.

Sorry no photos but I'm not too keen on putting stuff like this in the public domain.

Surely someone has achieved your 5 shots into 1moa on zero by now!

Originally Posted by gimp

Surely someone has achieved your 5 shots into 1moa on zero by now!

Nope, one guy a few weeks ago was close but one bullet cut the edge of the 29.1mm bull and it was judged to be more out than in. It's a bit harder than a lot of people think . .,.

Originally Posted by Tentman

Nope, one guy a few weeks ago was close but one bullet cut the edge of the 29.1mm bull and it was judged to be more out than in. It's a bit harder than a lot of people think . .,.

Yeah it is for sure, I just thought someone would have managed by now

Where do you run these shoots ?

This one was on our Invercargill Rifle Club range - a national treasure really, you can see the CBD about 2 Kms away and shoot out to 600.

We recently arranged to share targets with the new range at Fairlight ( down the road a bit from Kingston) and would be happy to take them just about anywhere in the Sth Is . . . . We've got the Ethical Hunter and Blackjack targets from Eric Cortina and Texas Plinkers MOA challenge .

Originally Posted by Tentman

(I get this data from the airport met station, about 900M away.)

Ahhh, I see this is run in Invercargill, not Aeroport International Toussaint Louverture on Haiti

I'll come if I can shoot your 8x57

Originally Posted by nor-west

I'll come if I can shoot your 8x57

Done!

Hope to get along myself one of these weekends. What's coming up before xmas?