welcome to December so regressive today we are doing the unknown distance
challenge with a handful of friends thanks a bunch to this guy over here for
letting us borrow his land we're going to be doing targets from anywhere from
zero feet two out to four hundred yards is about the max that we can get out
here and the targets we're going to be hitting today are clay pigeons being
held in these nifty little champion Durasteel targets you might have seen
some of these they're the targets that you can hit repeatedly uses bullet
just kind of goes through and then it closes back up so we're going to be
testing these out for the first time and you can see this isn't going to be
necessarily an easy shot especially since we get kind of an average of two
shots to hit each of these out of various ranges so we're going to mixing
these things up every time we go out it's going to be a whole new set up for
the new trigger man there's going to be a spotter to help with windage and all
that and you'll see as we get to work but today let's go nuts on
targets all right sounds good this model 10 GRS is chambered for 6.5 Creedmoor
and we are firing silenced today this is a yhm titanium silencer we are
launching supersonic ammo so it's still plenty loud but it still will help with
our hearing and it's going to help us not aggravate the people inside the
house the marksman and the spotter both have their work cut out for them after
finding the target and adjusting parallax they both estimate the distance
to the target by measuring how many milliradians the target covers in the
reticle this measurement corresponds to a distance figure on the ranging card I
prepared beforehand if a clay pigeon covers two milliradians it's roughly 60
yards away if it covers one milliradian it's roughly 110 yards away and if it
covers only 0.4 mrad the target is roughly 300 yards away once the spotter
and trigger man are comfortable with the range estimation the rifleman or spotter
finds the appropriate drop values on the ballistics chart the spotter also does
his best to estimate wind using cues like swaying grass or mirages the
rifleman then shifts his point of aim in the reticle to account for both values
the HD mr2 has very nice turrets but for this challenge we're not using them the
HD mr2 is set up the designated marksman scopes and is
primarily designed to be used locked down for kind of hasty shots rifle ready a
moderate yes sir as you can see the reticle provides all the elevation and
windage adjustments we could need for shots out to a fairly long range the age
59 reticle and this scope is perfect for the task at hand each of the small hash
marks measures a point to milliradian angle making precise range estimations a
breeze the glass clarity edge to edge is phenomenal too so it's easy to read
mirage and pick up on small wind excuse this is a pretty tough challenge and
it's one that i've done before for prairie dog hunting this I don't have a
laser rangefinder especially not for anything that's going to be that small
you can't really pick that up so I pretty much have to do on my range
estimation using the scope and what do you guys think of the scope so far I am
loving the scope it's just stupid good yeah and it's it's precise it's like
having all those extra little dots and gizmos and crap now does it ever get in
your way does it look like too much or anything no it's not getting them away
at all and the eye relief is good even at the higher magnification when we're
reaching out to 400 yards yeah but it's a winter sight picture all the way
through yeah I've really been enjoying it so yeah it's it's difficult and it's
a lot of fun if you have a big field especially I would have been really
digging of these targets these things are so cool because you know you
actually get feedback they explode sometimes they just get a little kind of
pin punch through them but you know sometimes they if you get a good solid
hit in the middle for the most part they're blowing up it's pretty neat that
you can just quick go out reset them and we're doing a different set up every
single time we're not going out and dealing with the same ranges or finding
locations any time for moving it around yeah this is a blast if you can try it
these champion Duracell targets are more fun than a barrel of monkeys and as you
can see they're actually pretty tough this has three hits on it there is a hit
right here this is the back side so that's that's always coming out the back
here second hit third hit and here's the
front side just a teeny little pinprick there there and right up top the most
profound damage that we had during the course of firing was this one right
here you can see that not only did it get a little bit more of a tear on the
back side here again it's still not anything that's going to you know stop
this thing from functioning I'll probably rip off this little tag right
here and then it's going to go right back to working this one took quite a
few hit there's one to obviously there's one over on this side but this one also
did take a pretty good hit to the stake and you can see that I think this was at
about probably 150 yards out it took a hit from a 140 grain six point five
millimeter bullet and it still kept tick and all we had to do is just bend this
back a little bit and I'm going to pop this thing in a vise to straighten it
out and it should be good to go for many more adventures at some point the rifle
started grouping erratically and it turned out to be these cross bolts on
these and weaver aluminum six hole rings and these things require quite a bit of
torque 65 pound inches and I know that I had not torqued down anywhere near that
I must have found a different ring on the chart and kind of screwed that up
but once we went back with a torque wrench and tighten these things back
down everything started grouping not just fine but really really well for the
rest of this session basically we were taking single shots on the targets and
wiping them out I've been going for about 15 years
mostly I use pistols a shotgun so before today I've not shot 100 rounds
or anything with a actual magnified scope that's kind of cool
what we say the longest shot is you ever taken with a rifle I think we were at
like 220 today for a 320 all right I think we're going to stretch that out
too
Oh
I'll fire rifles deer rifles shotguns 22 pistol see naked for about 10 or 15
years ago and what's the longest shot you're taking probably about right about
275 oh no you shot 600 left that's true I
did go to 600 the cons right that's right it was all over the place but it was 600
you ready all right yes straight through nice I probably shot for about between
15 and 20 years mostly rifle a little bit of shotgun and a decent bit of
pistol the harvest shot that I've ever connected and I would say it's probably
about 200 yards prior today
this whole challenge turned out to be even more fun than I originally thought
by the end of the session we were all hitting consistently and cold hit a
spray paint can 425 yards first shot which i think is a testament to the
rifle the ammo the scope and rifleman this challenge made us work on a big
handful of fundamentals and more than that we got to work as a team
and have a fun afternoon out if you have access to a field you've got to give
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