Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Long Range Hunting Whats wrong here, Driving me crazy....

6.5 Creedmore shooting 127 grain Barnes LRX, fairly accurate load (for me) and I've been shooting this load for a few months now,

First pic, 100 yard zero, 'target from past weeks', and again been set this way for a months.



Now today, after using JBM ballistics and entering all current conditions and velocity, (2785) JBM says 13.4 inches of drop at 300 yards, I make up this target, Top target is POA and lower target is the hopefully bullseye,



First 3 shots you see just low of center is 30'06 ( 13 inches of drop) and then the 3 shots lower and left with the slight red circle around them is the 6.5,


First question here, almost 16 inches low rather than the calculated 13.4



So we take the unexpected 16.5 inches of drop and do the math and come up with 5.25 MOA to bring us back on to the top target,

Take one shot, No new hole in or around the top bullseye,,,,,,WTF...

I don't get it, and no I did not verify at 100 yards today, no reason to, been sighted in for months now, nothing has changed.

The Orange Caldwell target you see is 6x6 inches,

And I also believe the scope has fairly accurate tracking, The final 3 shots on the target are from after I took away the 5.25 MOA,

My hunch is I overshot the entire target, but the why is whats driving me nuts....

Have you ran that load over a chronograph?

If not, all bets are off.

Same with testing the scopes tracking abilities.

yes, only a 3 shot string, but avg of 2785, which is also what many sites list for 42.6 grains of H4350...

I even went back to JBM trying to find a velocity that would give 16 inches of drop, That velocity would have to be around 2650 or even lower, those numbers made no sense to me, Hence, this thread.

Queeneth,

Which Reupold are you using. Hint.





Fhuqking LAUGHING!............

Call me by my name and I might actually take you seriously,

Kinda looking for some adult like thoughts here.

Keep in mind the last 3 shots, after dialing back to zero, are right there on the target,,,,I'm not suspecting scope failure at this point, at all.

Queeneth,

You are doing fhuqking "GREAT!"...you "lucky" kchunt. Hint. Congratulations?!?

Which Reupold are you using. Hint.

Fhuqking LAUGHING!................

How big is the red circle in the top targets?

Just from a guess, if you put those 2 3-shot groups together, you would be close to 2” or so??

Take the 2”, add parallax and other factors, the expected 16.5” of drop isn’t really that far off from what you were shooting.

Does your scope have parallax adjustment?

Red circle is 2 inches outside edge to outside edge.
No P adjustment,

Actual aiming point to actual drop is right at a measured 16 inches.

Parallax has had me scratching my head more than once.

Queeneth,

You are doing fhuqking "GREAT!"...you "lucky" kchunt. Hint. Congratulations?!?

Which Reupold are you using. Hint.

Fhuqking LAUGHING!................

So the group circled in red is the first 3 shots, then you dialed and missed the top target, dialed back and the next 3 shots are the holes on the bottom potion of the Caldwell target?

If so, that scope is not tracking well at all.

What are the particulars of your setup?
Rifle, scope, mounts?

I don’t miss Leupold at ALL !

Doesn’t matter if it’s Tasco, Leupold, SWFA or NF….fact is the target is telling him it’s not doing what it’s supposed to.

Correct on the sequence, however I see 6 shots within a 3 inch group, at 300 yards....Not to proud of that lower right shot, likely my fault,

otherwise we are talking factory Tikka hunting rifle here. No heavy benchrest stuff.

Tikka T3 6.5 creed. Leupold 3.5x10 Mounts are Burris rail mounts.

First question I have, why 16 inches of drop?

Then, lets assume the tracking is suspect, yet it returned to zero for the final 3 shots,

It has otherwise shown decent tracking in the past also.

From what I see, I would not call that a return to zero.

Also, I have seen parallax cause a ton of issues. Some just like what you’re seeing in actual drop not matching up with calculated drop.

In my opinion, no expert by any means, I’d be looking at trying another scope, that’s proven to work correctly.

Queeneth,

You are doing fhuqking "GREAT!"...you "lucky" kchunt. Hint. Congratulations?!?

Which Reupold are you using. Hint.

Fhuqking LAUGHING!................