Thread: More cheap long range

Today we launched our "Eric Cortina Blackjack Challenge" rack of gongs on the range at 480M/525Y. Wind at the airport station about a KM away was reading 24 km/h at close to 90 - and quite gusty.

On our range everyone has to validate their zero at 100M so we did an MOA dot challenge (can you keep 5 rounds inside a 29mm dot at 100M) out of 8 shooters we got one "possible" although there was another shooter who shot a very nice sub MOA group but was outside the dot. All rifles on the line in "hunter class", all but one being actual hunting rifles.

Back to 480. 12 Rounds, supposedly 2 minutes but we dropped that, too tough. 6 square plates 300, 250, 200, 150, 100 and 50 hit to move. The wind made it tough, no-one had gotten past the 100 when I left, most stalling out between the 200 and the 150.

I was shooting a light 223 with 69s, a very hard day in the office. My 100M group was about 40mm (arrrggghhhh, I thought I had it running better than that). I was pretty pleased at 480M to get the 300 on the 3rd shot with a 1.4 mil wind hold in quite a heavy mirage and then got the 250 with the next shot and 200 with two more shots. Couldn't nail the 150, splashed all round it (note to self, this is what happens with a 1.5 MOA rifle). Bloody good fun though and while I don't shoot game over 350 or so especially in any wind and definitelynot with a 223, nice to know most of the shots would have gotten me a hit on deer - rifle is "minute of deer"!