Some days I amaze myself. Sure, plenty of folks here can make this but for me, with the pressure on, in front of witnesses…..
Normally I don’t hang my silhouette target closer than 500 yards. Even there just shooting at it all but seems a chip shot. But today, Both our son, Will iII and Brenda wanted to shoot some iron sighted rifles, so, being a hardened target, we set it up and they blasted away. I was doing some spotting for them with my MPA/Leupold. All the time, I was looking at this mounting hole, some thing not regularly seen at 500 yards or more. But at 100 yards, it just kept staring back at me……
So, I gave it a try. At this range, the max distance is 300 yards, so I normally just set the scope at that distance and give it a go. That said, my first two shots hit the head. I noticed the scope was set for 300 yards, so, I adjusted appropriately, took slow careful aim and trigger press, and put the bullet through the hole. Hole measures 0.525 of an inch.
Shooting a tight group is not that big of an issue, but the pressure was on, had to hit exactly where I wanted.
The shot let go, and directly behind the target, a big puff of dirt rose up.
Rifle; MPA Pro BA, Leupold MK 5 5-25, Leupold Rings, 6.5 Creedmoor, 130 grain Berger VLD, Superformance Powder, CCI BR4 primer.
Look carefully at the picture and you can see where the bullet grazed the bottom of the hole.
That crap shot minute-of-softball...It was terrible. After testing it with LeverEvoltion it went from a 100 yard deer rifle, to easily being capable of taking a deer at 300 yards. After testing that first box, I remember going back to the store and buying about 8 more boxes of it. Still have all of it, as he never even shot that gun beyond the 1990's, because he loved that .444 Marlin so much. The .30-30 just sat in the safe...I was the only one who shot it. I'll test it next, and post up some groups. It's been well over 10 years since I shot it...It's overdue. 
