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Great time had by all and a big thank you to Pat for coordinating it and Matt for letting us increase the lead and copper content in his property.

One thing that really jumped out at me was the accuracy of the ballistic programs with the wide variety of rifles, calibers and scopes if information was properly entered. From 200-1200 yards I was dead on for elevation after entering the onsite weather conditions. Failure to enter an exact velocity or scope height over bore seemed to be the two biggest issues with getting an accurate data card from any of the programs. A 25fps error or a 1/10" off on scope height lead to being several clicks off at the longer ranges. The third issue was trusting a program. I know in the shoot off I choked because I did not trust the data card. I thought I hit the edges of two targets at 465yard but later found out I centered them pretty good (only feed back in the comp was "impact"). It did not seem like I had enough windage so I added another .5mil and then I proceeded to miss by .5 mil until I pulled my head out and shot what was needed. It was a confidence booster to trust the program and hit the last two targets past 700 yards.

This was one of the common targets and was about 8-9" from back to belly. I know it was out to at least 710 yards and dont recall them being placed further.


We talk about how far you can go with a certain magnification and this might be a good idea. I think I was the only 3x9 on the line. This is a plate rack at 505 yards. For the 3" diamond on the far right I had to make a guess because I was unable to clearly see it once the paint as blown off.


About 2.25 mils of lead for wind on at 1032 yard wolf. I run a simple mil dot but it is clear to see having the half mil dash is extremely helpful for holding wind.

Good overview of the longer stuff. The first target is a wolf at 831yards and then moving to the left it was a plate at 963 yards, a second plate at 1242 yards and a manhole cover at 1480. I bowed out after 1242 when I ran out of comeups on my scope.