A bit of a continuation of my 'had a lot of drift' thread, I think I got the problem solved. Seems it was a mix of slight cant (which the 22LR basically exponentially made worse) and a checkbox error I made on JBM when I first made my basic range card to work off of.
Put Badger rings on it instead of the older Vortex rings that came with the scope and replumbed the reticle against a 10lb weight being held by 550 cord at 100 yards. Zero'd at 100 and shot a few 5 shot groups that were very nice and started putting little gongs out at random distances.
I know there are a lot of people who believe that 50/100y is what the 22LR is for, and most 22 competitions rarely if ever (not saying they dont) really go past 150 yards. Since I really wanted to start being able to split hairs with wind calls as well as weird wind calls (wind different at target, shooting past canyon walls for 50% of the distance, etc) I have really been going at it with the 22 this year.
Target is usually a 3 gong steel swinger (pics attached) where the middle gong is a hair over 2 inches, and the larger gong is 3.2 inches. With a good mirage, I can't even see the 2 inch gong half the time; however today, there was next to no mirage which presents its own set of problems when trying to determine what the wind is doing downrange especially since the first 75ish yards are blocked from my 3 o clock to basically have no wind due to a canyon wall and as soon as the bullet passes the wall, there's wind.
243 yards made 5/5 and 3/5 hits (target with my finger pointing at it after the first 5/5) for reference and then put a clay pigeon holder with a standard clay in it at 315 to see if I could get a hit as I wasn't sure I'd move the gong much and after 13.4MILS, managed to on the 2nd round.
At 315, the round is basically coming down like artillery with 155 inches (13 feet!) of drop and with a 5mph it needs 2MILS of hold. I used both the steel spinner gong and a 4.5 inch self repairing polymer gong. When hitting the gong at that distance, they just barely hit it and fell off right in front of it making a neat little pile of flat bullets; at 243 they still ricocheted off.
You have to have the shot set up, trigger pull perfect as well as follow through down or it'll miss by just THAT much. I was getting to the point of knowing if I was getting a hit while it was still flying through the air by where the reticle stayed during/after the trigger pull. The slightest movement of it, even while keeping it on the target but not perfectly still, would give you an annoying miss by just a little bit. There were a few that were either part me and part semi flyer round that had REALLY opened up by the time it got there but making a hit was not as consistent as at 243 where I felt I could do it almost every time, yet it was doable far more than I thought it would be.
CZ455 in Manners stock
Vortex Viper 4-16 FFP
Lilja barrel
Timney trigger
Lapua Center X
Put Badger rings on it instead of the older Vortex rings that came with the scope and replumbed the reticle against a 10lb weight being held by 550 cord at 100 yards. Zero'd at 100 and shot a few 5 shot groups that were very nice and started putting little gongs out at random distances.
I know there are a lot of people who believe that 50/100y is what the 22LR is for, and most 22 competitions rarely if ever (not saying they dont) really go past 150 yards. Since I really wanted to start being able to split hairs with wind calls as well as weird wind calls (wind different at target, shooting past canyon walls for 50% of the distance, etc) I have really been going at it with the 22 this year.
Target is usually a 3 gong steel swinger (pics attached) where the middle gong is a hair over 2 inches, and the larger gong is 3.2 inches. With a good mirage, I can't even see the 2 inch gong half the time; however today, there was next to no mirage which presents its own set of problems when trying to determine what the wind is doing downrange especially since the first 75ish yards are blocked from my 3 o clock to basically have no wind due to a canyon wall and as soon as the bullet passes the wall, there's wind.
243 yards made 5/5 and 3/5 hits (target with my finger pointing at it after the first 5/5) for reference and then put a clay pigeon holder with a standard clay in it at 315 to see if I could get a hit as I wasn't sure I'd move the gong much and after 13.4MILS, managed to on the 2nd round.
At 315, the round is basically coming down like artillery with 155 inches (13 feet!) of drop and with a 5mph it needs 2MILS of hold. I used both the steel spinner gong and a 4.5 inch self repairing polymer gong. When hitting the gong at that distance, they just barely hit it and fell off right in front of it making a neat little pile of flat bullets; at 243 they still ricocheted off.
You have to have the shot set up, trigger pull perfect as well as follow through down or it'll miss by just THAT much. I was getting to the point of knowing if I was getting a hit while it was still flying through the air by where the reticle stayed during/after the trigger pull. The slightest movement of it, even while keeping it on the target but not perfectly still, would give you an annoying miss by just a little bit. There were a few that were either part me and part semi flyer round that had REALLY opened up by the time it got there but making a hit was not as consistent as at 243 where I felt I could do it almost every time, yet it was doable far more than I thought it would be.
CZ455 in Manners stock
Vortex Viper 4-16 FFP
Lilja barrel
Timney trigger
Lapua Center X
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