I got a chance to go to 600 with my Kilo-51 this weekend. I haven't seen a lot of targets of Tac Ops at > 300 yards, so I thought I'd put this out there.
I shot on two different days. The first day, I had a difficult time getting on paper because I used Google Earth to mark the range and I used the wrong landmarks. It turns out, I was set up at 900! I finally used my reticle to do the ranging and realized my mistake. I felt like an idiot. Having wasted enough ammo trying to get on paper, and not having anything large enough to mil off of with great accuracy, I went ahead and measured 600 yards with a tape measure... which took a long time!
I used the Android Shooter app and the listed velocity (which I knew was going to be wrong, but made a nice starting place) to get on, and it did extremely well. See below:
That's a little over half MOA. My wind reading skills might look really good from that target, but it was about a 7 o'clock wind 7 - 10mph. You'll see from the next day's targets that my wind reading skills could use some work. This was with 175 gr FGMM, BTW, which is the amazing part.
It was getting late, so I packed up and set up to shoot then next day and shot these...
The wind was 3 o'clock at 2 - 7mph. I doped for 3 and shot during the lulls. I can't believe how on Shooter's wind dope was... those groups are pretty well-centered.
As you can see, there is a lot more horizontal dispersion there. I was planning on shooting some 10 shot groups after the first 5 shots, and then I realized that I only had 6 rounds left, so I went with another 5 round group. I did have a bunch of 180 grain Federal Match, but after the issues yesterday, I decided I didn't want to estimate velocity for a new load and try to get on paper again.
What was pretty incredible to me was the vertical dispersion of FGMM. That is .37 MOA average for the 3 groups. And the smallest group had a .28 MOA vertical dispersion. Obviously, I need to work on my wind reading to clean up that horizontal dispersion, but I felt like the rifle performed extremely well.
Next time I go out to the ranch, I will give 1,000 yards a shot, but I am going to need to bring my bigger targets.
I shot on two different days. The first day, I had a difficult time getting on paper because I used Google Earth to mark the range and I used the wrong landmarks. It turns out, I was set up at 900! I finally used my reticle to do the ranging and realized my mistake. I felt like an idiot. Having wasted enough ammo trying to get on paper, and not having anything large enough to mil off of with great accuracy, I went ahead and measured 600 yards with a tape measure... which took a long time!
I used the Android Shooter app and the listed velocity (which I knew was going to be wrong, but made a nice starting place) to get on, and it did extremely well. See below:
That's a little over half MOA. My wind reading skills might look really good from that target, but it was about a 7 o'clock wind 7 - 10mph. You'll see from the next day's targets that my wind reading skills could use some work. This was with 175 gr FGMM, BTW, which is the amazing part.
It was getting late, so I packed up and set up to shoot then next day and shot these...
The wind was 3 o'clock at 2 - 7mph. I doped for 3 and shot during the lulls. I can't believe how on Shooter's wind dope was... those groups are pretty well-centered.
As you can see, there is a lot more horizontal dispersion there. I was planning on shooting some 10 shot groups after the first 5 shots, and then I realized that I only had 6 rounds left, so I went with another 5 round group. I did have a bunch of 180 grain Federal Match, but after the issues yesterday, I decided I didn't want to estimate velocity for a new load and try to get on paper again.
What was pretty incredible to me was the vertical dispersion of FGMM. That is .37 MOA average for the 3 groups. And the smallest group had a .28 MOA vertical dispersion. Obviously, I need to work on my wind reading to clean up that horizontal dispersion, but I felt like the rifle performed extremely well.
Next time I go out to the ranch, I will give 1,000 yards a shot, but I am going to need to bring my bigger targets.
