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Fighting weight....8 lbs, 15 ozs.....
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That'll hunt for sure! My boys are both dialing that same Leupold a lot and have been happy with tracking. How about you?
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Eat Fish, Wear Grundens, Drink Alaskan.
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That'll hunt for sure! My boys are both dialing that same Leupold a lot and have been happy with tracking. How about you? Tracking has been just fine. I've ran it up and down all around, and it returns to zero just fine. Last adjustment at 225 needed a hair over an inch down and a bit left, 2 clicks down and one left moved impact as expected. Last three shots proved it.....
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Thanks....I'm in love......
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Al, why did you choose the PRC over the X47?
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Al, why did you choose the PRC over the X47? Dave, I'm certainly not getting out of the 6x47 game, still have 3 or 4 around here. I was always a 6-284 fan, so I figured this was the "new" version, so why not? It adds an easy 300 fps over the 6x47, so it's more than a just a step up in performance, with no loss in accuracy. Win/win.......
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Unf'ing real today.......
I was out testing a different gun today, and threw the big six in the truck with the intent to shoot a group at a little further distance to check drop and accuracy.
I had to hump the target up the hill to set it at the top of the waterway in the middle of the cornfield, then drive up the other side of the hill to shoot from. Got all set up, right at 500 yards:Check my drop sheet, and found 5 MOA needed. Wind was a 90* cross wind, 2.4 MOA, or 12.5" for a 10 mph. I guessed about a 3/4 value and held on the right side of the target, and sent one. Got up to get the spotting scope, and immediately remembered I forgot to dial for distance, being too focused on wind. Wasn't till I put the frame in the truck that I saw the impact on the lower 2x4 brace. Made a pretty good wind call:Sat back down, dialed in 5 MOA, and noticed the 2 ribbons on the target frame weren't hardly moving, plus I couldn't feel any wind at the bench, so I held dead center and ripped one off. I quick look through the scope didn't show me anything. Conditions were holding, so I quickly sent two more before they changed. When done, I could just barely make out one hole at 10:00 o'clock, hoping the other two were in the blue.
Got everything back in the truck, drove down the hill, and humped it back up the hill to retrieve the target.......
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Gotcha, 300 fps is a good jump...and nice shooting!
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Yeah, Scotty, he’s Mr. Wizard with a long gun. 😬😎
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Oops, I’m sorry, I was looking for x47 Lapua thread. My bad 🙄😎
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That's some great shooting aalf.
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That's some great shooting aalf. Thanks.....sometimes it comes together....
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Yeah, Scotty, he’s Mr. Wizard with a long gun. 😬😎 Yep, he is a legend in these parts. Set up in one county and hit targets in the next county.
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aalf,
What I would like to see, and I am sure others as well, is a tutorial on loading your ammo, providing of course, that it is not proprietary.
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Glad I'm not the only one that forgets to twist a dial now and then.
Great shooting Al, I too would be interested in reading a thread on how you go about load development.
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Thanks all.....
It's probably more attention to details than actual load work, although that's a big part as well.
A few thoughts come to mind.....
I anneal every time, I use Wilson inline bullet seaters, I always seat in the lands, I check & straighten every round.
This brass, I FL sized out of the box, deburred/beveled flash holes, annealed, neck turned, necked down, turned again, neck sized, and annealed again prior to loading for the 1st time.
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