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Roaming shot shooting range review
Posted on 3/8/24 at 7:52 pm
Posted on 3/8/24 at 7:52 pm
Just wanted to plug the shooting range north of Baton Rouge in pride. Was easy to book a slot this morning paid with CC last night and was booked for shooting inside the AC shooting house and shooting out to 400yd for 40$ an hour.
The owner met me there and we chatted and went through a safety briefing and begin to start shooting. I was the only shooter this morning and he gladly was spotting for me and very cordial.
Zeroed my new cartridge in 300wm Barnes 180 at 100 2in high and begin to walk it out. Made my first dial at 400 and was pretty close to what my hornday calculator said I should be.
We then moved upstairs and he put the Garmin chronograph on and we saw that I was actually shooting about 50fps faster than what I had assumed and even faster than the Barnes box.
Used that info and dope from previous shots to walk it out to 1000k yd.
Take away from the day was 30-50fps is huge at 700yd. Velocity from one box to another was significant 20-30fps .
Wind drift with the bad weather was really all over the place after 700yd.
0-500 was fairly predictable with a factory Christensen arms mesa 300wm shooting Barnes facotory ammo and a nightforce scope.
Prior to this I had never shot past 350yd
I’m not Chris Kyle and 500yd will still be my limit
The owner met me there and we chatted and went through a safety briefing and begin to start shooting. I was the only shooter this morning and he gladly was spotting for me and very cordial.
Zeroed my new cartridge in 300wm Barnes 180 at 100 2in high and begin to walk it out. Made my first dial at 400 and was pretty close to what my hornday calculator said I should be.
We then moved upstairs and he put the Garmin chronograph on and we saw that I was actually shooting about 50fps faster than what I had assumed and even faster than the Barnes box.
Used that info and dope from previous shots to walk it out to 1000k yd.
Take away from the day was 30-50fps is huge at 700yd. Velocity from one box to another was significant 20-30fps .
Wind drift with the bad weather was really all over the place after 700yd.
0-500 was fairly predictable with a factory Christensen arms mesa 300wm shooting Barnes facotory ammo and a nightforce scope.
Prior to this I had never shot past 350yd
I’m not Chris Kyle and 500yd will still be my limit
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Posted on 3/8/24 at 8:28 pm to Ol boy
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1000k yd
Wow. 1000k yds is really reaching it out there lol. Kidding. Glad you had a great time. Sounds like an excellent range.
Posted on 3/8/24 at 9:46 pm to BeauxNArreaux
1000yards is just scratching the surface for a 300wm, but we really don't have the ranges for the big magnums down here.
Sounds like a good time though. OP learned a bit. Hopefully documented all that data. The ballistic calculators now are really good as long as you have good data to put in them.
ETA: OP you don't have to be Chris Kyle. Minute of man is different than minute of angle. Make good ethical shots and stay within your comfort zone is all anyone asks of ethical sportsmen. Shooting steel or paper is different, go for it and push the limits.
Sounds like a good time though. OP learned a bit. Hopefully documented all that data. The ballistic calculators now are really good as long as you have good data to put in them.
ETA: OP you don't have to be Chris Kyle. Minute of man is different than minute of angle. Make good ethical shots and stay within your comfort zone is all anyone asks of ethical sportsmen. Shooting steel or paper is different, go for it and push the limits.
This post was edited on 3/8/24 at 9:52 pm
Posted on 3/8/24 at 10:22 pm to kengel2
quote:
1000yards is just scratching the surface for a 300wm, but we really don't have the ranges for the big magnums down here. Sounds like a good time though. OP learned a bit. Hopefully documented all that data. The ballistic calculators now are really good as long as you have good data to put in them.
So I had plugged all my data into “bullet drop”
Calculator as well as the hornday app.
After shooting bullet drop was closer than hornday still trying to back door the math as to why since hornday has a lot more inputs.
I saved all my inputs and feel confident out to 600yd.
It was pretty clear imo that wind or even a
Cold bore shot was pushing impact 10-12in at anything past 600yd and that was even holding some wind.
For now I’m going to hold to 500-600yd range but maybe a 7mm prc or 300prc can convince me to stretch out another 100yd or so.
And yeah I wouldn’t care as much if I gut shot a
jihad versus a elk or mule deer.
Posted on 3/9/24 at 5:20 am to Ol boy
After 500 yards is really where your high BC bullets behind, especially in windy conditions. My brother and dad didn’t understand this until we were in Montana and shooting at a gong at 650 yards with about a 20mph cross wind. All of us were shooting .300wm but the bullets were all different. I was shooting a 215gr berger, dad a 190gr Berger VLD and brother a 165gr partition. Our holds were incredibly different with my brothers being about 2’ off the plate, dad 1’ and mine a few inches. Once they saw it, they all made the switch to higher BC bullets and it made them far better shooters.
*The bullet won’t make you a better shooter, it just minimizes wind drift and other variables you may have miscalculated.
*The bullet won’t make you a better shooter, it just minimizes wind drift and other variables you may have miscalculated.
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