Hello guys, I am a long-range virgin I have shot over 1k...with a 25mm cannon in a Bradley fighting vehicle ( the new one where the computer does all the work) if that counts lol. So prior infantry m16, m4, saw, 240. Optics wise eotech, acog, and m68's. Is most of my firearms experience. So the typical ranges those are fired with whatever combination of optics.
I came into a bit of money ended up with 2 long guns. One is a browning xbolt in 7mm mag ( had a buddy who was struggling after the army money wise so helped him)
Then a buddy sold me a howa 1500 the hogue stock one with a 20in bull/heavy barrel for 300 bucks also was sucking on money. So my main go to with my new learning process is the 308. One of my sniper buddies who's still with the 101 told me get good glass, rings, and rail. For my budget, at the time I did vortex pst ii 3x15, a 0 moa rail by nightforce (it was on closeout) and vortex rings. He told me to get a few different boxes of ammo to see what my gun likes, which confused me then he explained he could have the same setup as me, and his might shoot a smaller moa with gold metal match, whereas your's might like black hills blah. He said to get one box of cheap shit to zero/get on paper I chose pmc whatever was on sale.
Now onto the questions.
I finally took it out and zero'd with the pmc freezing my ass off just using my backpack as a rest at a sitdown-type shooting range. I didn't really have the steadiest shots my fault for not joining earlier and reading about how important having the rear secure was lol I shot like a 3 moa. Completely on me for sucking on this one. At a high zoom, you'd be surprised how much that little reticle moves when you're shivering lol.
What all do you recommend I buy starting out? With the 20in 308 I have I'm not really looking to push out further than 600-800 as of right now as I'm slowly learning. Do I need to buy a kestrel, bags/sandsocks, I saw some morbidly obese guy next to with a rather expensive looking 6.5 creedmore using something called a lead sled to zero, but then he was hitting out to 1000 on steel at the range. I didn't even know things like that existed.
As for the random boxes of ammo I grabbed to try that I haven't shot yet.
168 grain HPBT prvi partisan
imi 175 grain otm in 7.62x51
150 grain fiochi range dynamics
168 grain a max hornady black
175 grain hpbt seirra gold metal match
175 grain tipped matchking black hills
those were the ones my gun store had not sure which are garbage/good still need to test them out. So once I find out which shoots the most accurately with my firearm I read to reset the zero stops. Then adjust from there when shooting different ranges and such. If say the Black hills gives me the best zero which also happens to be the most expensive, and I wanted to go out and just fuck around with cheap stuff say the PMC or the IMI would I just write down whatever the adjustment was for that ammo, while still retaining the zero stop stuff for whatever is the most accurate? I read about the apps suggested on here that seem to be like a digital dope book, I can download one of those as well.
Sorry for the extra long post if you read through all this thank you. If I asked or said something stupid and must get flammed flame on.
I came into a bit of money ended up with 2 long guns. One is a browning xbolt in 7mm mag ( had a buddy who was struggling after the army money wise so helped him)
Then a buddy sold me a howa 1500 the hogue stock one with a 20in bull/heavy barrel for 300 bucks also was sucking on money. So my main go to with my new learning process is the 308. One of my sniper buddies who's still with the 101 told me get good glass, rings, and rail. For my budget, at the time I did vortex pst ii 3x15, a 0 moa rail by nightforce (it was on closeout) and vortex rings. He told me to get a few different boxes of ammo to see what my gun likes, which confused me then he explained he could have the same setup as me, and his might shoot a smaller moa with gold metal match, whereas your's might like black hills blah. He said to get one box of cheap shit to zero/get on paper I chose pmc whatever was on sale.
Now onto the questions.
I finally took it out and zero'd with the pmc freezing my ass off just using my backpack as a rest at a sitdown-type shooting range. I didn't really have the steadiest shots my fault for not joining earlier and reading about how important having the rear secure was lol I shot like a 3 moa. Completely on me for sucking on this one. At a high zoom, you'd be surprised how much that little reticle moves when you're shivering lol.
What all do you recommend I buy starting out? With the 20in 308 I have I'm not really looking to push out further than 600-800 as of right now as I'm slowly learning. Do I need to buy a kestrel, bags/sandsocks, I saw some morbidly obese guy next to with a rather expensive looking 6.5 creedmore using something called a lead sled to zero, but then he was hitting out to 1000 on steel at the range. I didn't even know things like that existed.
As for the random boxes of ammo I grabbed to try that I haven't shot yet.
168 grain HPBT prvi partisan
imi 175 grain otm in 7.62x51
150 grain fiochi range dynamics
168 grain a max hornady black
175 grain hpbt seirra gold metal match
175 grain tipped matchking black hills
those were the ones my gun store had not sure which are garbage/good still need to test them out. So once I find out which shoots the most accurately with my firearm I read to reset the zero stops. Then adjust from there when shooting different ranges and such. If say the Black hills gives me the best zero which also happens to be the most expensive, and I wanted to go out and just fuck around with cheap stuff say the PMC or the IMI would I just write down whatever the adjustment was for that ammo, while still retaining the zero stop stuff for whatever is the most accurate? I read about the apps suggested on here that seem to be like a digital dope book, I can download one of those as well.
Sorry for the extra long post if you read through all this thank you. If I asked or said something stupid and must get flammed flame on.
