peterk123
NES Member
Looking for some thoughts/ advice regarding shooting 600 meters and beyond. This was our first time out this far.
My first question: my DOPE card has been dead on all the way out to 400 meters. I've used it for 100 and 200 yards, and 300 and 400 meters. Spot on.
At 600 meters I should be 17.25 MOA. My son in law's setting is basically identical. I shoot 308 he shoots 30 06. Both of us had to dial it down to 14. Does this make any sense? Or is it just us? We are using sand bags. Guns are well supported. Prior to dialing down we were consistently over a foot too high.
Then there is the wind. I need to put ribbons out. Because it appears 5mph crosswind can push it about 18 inches. We were guessing, trying to figure out when it was blowing, when it was not. We were within a foot left to right always, but that is just unacceptable. Need to work on that.
Both of our guns are shooting 1 MOA at 100.
So fun thing we figured out about the boy's gun. We have had a hell of a time zeroing it. So the other day I grabbed the torque wrench and told him I wanted to check the action bolts. Well one wasn't even hand tight. Cranked it to spec and the gun was spot on. Lesson learned. Check those things out every couple months or after a season of banging around in the mountains.
My first question: my DOPE card has been dead on all the way out to 400 meters. I've used it for 100 and 200 yards, and 300 and 400 meters. Spot on.
At 600 meters I should be 17.25 MOA. My son in law's setting is basically identical. I shoot 308 he shoots 30 06. Both of us had to dial it down to 14. Does this make any sense? Or is it just us? We are using sand bags. Guns are well supported. Prior to dialing down we were consistently over a foot too high.
Then there is the wind. I need to put ribbons out. Because it appears 5mph crosswind can push it about 18 inches. We were guessing, trying to figure out when it was blowing, when it was not. We were within a foot left to right always, but that is just unacceptable. Need to work on that.
Both of our guns are shooting 1 MOA at 100.
So fun thing we figured out about the boy's gun. We have had a hell of a time zeroing it. So the other day I grabbed the torque wrench and told him I wanted to check the action bolts. Well one wasn't even hand tight. Cranked it to spec and the gun was spot on. Lesson learned. Check those things out every couple months or after a season of banging around in the mountains.