4 of us made a run to nose hill today, a beautiful day to shoot +11 bright sun on our back and very little mirage, the wind was about 20KM from the SW but was gusting a bit so it gave us something to think about.
Shot the 7 PRC first with the 180 ELDM, started at 460 ping ping ok lets start to stretch it out a bit, next stop 872, bad wind hold the first shot gave it 2 MOA and ping ping, OK now to take it out again next stop 1140, I started at 4 moa left wind, right of target elevation bang on, 6 moa ping 5 straight hits, sweet.
Switched to the 6.5 PRC with the 147 gr ELDM dialed it up and held 6 moa left wind ping hit 4 out of 5 shots at 1140, OK I think I got it dialed in now, let's go to 1400, 5 shots and all around the target but not 1 ping
switched back to the 7PRC, dialed up and held 8 moa left, ping but then 4 misses in a row, left and right wind was obviously doing something different up in that valley, 1400 it a long way for this old guy.
Given both rifles are actually hunting rigs I wanted to do some shooting out of my little ground chair with my modified long bipod on to duplicate hunting conditions ( 14" added on the legs with aluminum golf club shafts ) very consistent hits with both rifles out to 660 and at 872 I hit about 50% of the time, not bad. Put about 15 rounds through each out of my chair and called it a day.
All in all I'm very happy with the rifles performance, the misses were no doubt more on me than the rifle or ammo, it was a great day and I burned up close to 100 rounds between the 2 guns, ate my lunch consisting of a ham sandwich, some smoked trout ( compliments of Frank NK28 ) hickory farms beef stick with smoked gouda and smoked Swiss cheese and of course my own homemade dill pickles, washed it down with a nice hot tea and finished with a couple oatmeal raisin cookies compliments of another lunch bag there.
While the other 3 were finishing up shooting I packed up my stuff and just sat in my chair for a while and soaked in the day, man I'll tell you it don't get any better than this, life is good
tons of ammo and a mark 5 waiting for its chariot!
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