Well, after an abysmal showing at the LV Match I determined I need to confirm my zero and what do you know, it shifted .2 up and .3 right, still no excuse for bad shooting though. Always good to be knocked down a notch or two though. Anyways, I re-zeroed at 100 and then set up my little 17"x10" steel guy at 1000 and took 10 shots at it. Ballistic FTE tracks very close for me, always within .1-.2 mils clear out to 1000. Ended up using 8.3 mils for elevation and was holding between 1.1-1.75 mils for wind, conditions were 60 degrees at 2800 ft with about 10-15 mph winds coming in at my 4-5 o'clock.
Rifle- Stiller Tac-30, 6.5 Creedmoor, 25" Rock Creek barrel, Mcree's Precision stock
(This is at the 29 Palms range, rifle is on bench for photo purposes, I'm sure you all were about to jump down my throat about it
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Load- 41.6 H4350, 140gr Hornady HPBT, Hornady 5x fired brass, Fed210M primer going at about 2800 fps
zero, came down .1 and called it good. This is after the prior adjustments
17x10 Steel man, with shifting winds the other 6 shots were mostly all just barely off his right side, good for elevation though. No I was not aiming at his head lol.
One thing I've noticed that helps a lot is this US Optics bubble level. Borrowed it from D.Miller about 2 weeks and it was my first time using one. I really wasn't aware of how much cant you can actually have even though you think you're "level". I know it's helped with more consistent hits out at longer ranges and my misses have been much closer to the edge and less variation due to what I thought was just fluctuating wind, which is always a factor for where I shoot, but the cant just worsens the effect.
Just got back from a range here in 29 Palms (finally found it) and got to shoot at their steel they have set up. None of their ranges to steel are marked anywhere but I managed to lase a group at 610 yds and then milled some further targets at 1050 yds. Milling gave me tgt sizes of about 6"-18" squares at 610, roughly, and at 1050 my milling came out to a huge 32" disc with a couple 17"(looked smaller, probable error on my part) squares and then some other steel I didn't bother with scattered past 1050 out to a mile. Promising place, hoping to go back again soon, maybe I'll get pictures then
Rifle- Stiller Tac-30, 6.5 Creedmoor, 25" Rock Creek barrel, Mcree's Precision stock
(This is at the 29 Palms range, rifle is on bench for photo purposes, I'm sure you all were about to jump down my throat about it
Load- 41.6 H4350, 140gr Hornady HPBT, Hornady 5x fired brass, Fed210M primer going at about 2800 fps
zero, came down .1 and called it good. This is after the prior adjustments
17x10 Steel man, with shifting winds the other 6 shots were mostly all just barely off his right side, good for elevation though. No I was not aiming at his head lol.
One thing I've noticed that helps a lot is this US Optics bubble level. Borrowed it from D.Miller about 2 weeks and it was my first time using one. I really wasn't aware of how much cant you can actually have even though you think you're "level". I know it's helped with more consistent hits out at longer ranges and my misses have been much closer to the edge and less variation due to what I thought was just fluctuating wind, which is always a factor for where I shoot, but the cant just worsens the effect.
Just got back from a range here in 29 Palms (finally found it) and got to shoot at their steel they have set up. None of their ranges to steel are marked anywhere but I managed to lase a group at 610 yds and then milled some further targets at 1050 yds. Milling gave me tgt sizes of about 6"-18" squares at 610, roughly, and at 1050 my milling came out to a huge 32" disc with a couple 17"(looked smaller, probable error on my part) squares and then some other steel I didn't bother with scattered past 1050 out to a mile. Promising place, hoping to go back again soon, maybe I'll get pictures then
