The black dot of doom fun shoot - anyone game?

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Buchan said:
With perfect timing, my son turned to me, lowered his binoculars and said, "You're only supposed to blow the bloody doors off!" I'm surprised I even hit the box after that.
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:D
very good!

my Uncle was zeroing his .270
duly placed his target board on the hill side and paced back 100yds

first shot went through the target hit a lup of shale just under the surface of the hill side and blasted the target with gravel and shrapnel neatly blowing a 6" hole in the paper and destroying any evidence of the first shot location.

we all looked at him as if he was using depleted uranium rounds!
 
Herewith my efforts.

I do not have the luxury/opportunity of a bipod/prone so these were shot standing up using a set of Limulus' quad sticks.

When I zero with the quad sticks I steady them a bit by keeping my trigger elbow in contact with a wall, these were shot without that advantage in order to better simulate field conditions. These are three attempts on separate days over the last few days, each time the best shot was the first but I just could not get better than one and half in the dot! The three shot this morning were in thick mist /fog and I could not see the dot for a few minutes between the second and third shots!

The distance is 88metres/95 yards according to the rangefinder but it is up a slope so its just over 100 paces up the hill and 97 down!

It is a very small dot!

This is using the most consistent factory ammo I have found for my rifle so far. Hornady .308W 165grn SST Superperformance. The rifle is zeroed for Hornady 150grn GMX Superperformance which arrives 10mm down and 10mm to the right of these which the rifle likes almost as well but is double the price so I don't use it for practice! Interestingly it doesn't like the 150grn SST's which go all over the place...

Alan
 

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Well the conditions seemed favourable, almost no wind, and I have my DSC1 shooting test on Sunday, so I thought I'd try this out. Tikka T3 Lite 243, with Federal Powershok 100gr ammo, prone off bipod @ 100 paced yards. To say I'm pleased would be an understatement! Just hope it goes this well on Sunday.
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SCAN0030.webpMy effort, very gusty wind from 3 o'clock. guessed how much to hold off with the first two shots so quite pleased with that as the rifle is zeroed for 200 yards. i think the third shot is a combination of the wind dropping and me pulling the shot.
 
Matastrophe said:
think the third shot is a combination of the wind dropping and me pulling the shot.
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Even so it is a good group and that dot is hard to hit when you are, in effect, aiming into free space.

I was out last week just for a wee bit of plinking and was shooting at what I consider a really nice target - good aiming point and so on. I just couldn't get it together shooting prone at all. The minute I pulled the trigger I could tell that each shot was going to be useless. Then I went on to the sticks and everything just came together and I was shooting much better off sticks than prone, my groups off sticks I was really pleased with. I can't explain any of that but I honestly believe that the human factor really is the single biggest thing when it comes to consistent and reliable shooting and while I sometimes get lucky (my black dot prone shooting wasn't too bad for example) I also sometimes get unlucky.
 
Here's my average effort from Friday evening with the .308 that I've not used much. Had a quick mooch around after work, saw nothing so thought I'd have a go laying prone using the roe sack as a rest with light fading away.

As has been said that dot looks dinky at 100 yards!!

Stratts

 
Finally got a chance to do this with the larger rifles. First up - .243. Tikka T3, shooting Federal 100gr soft points. Bipod and fist under butt. No moderator, 3-9 X50 scope, set on 9. Nasty unpredictable cross wind, guting up to an estimated 25 mph. First two shots were good, the one 'flyer' was entirely my fault - the Flinch came back without warning. I dio, however, have to come clean about this: I had shot the rifle the day before to sort out a zero problem (was shooting about 3 inches high and to the right). This was shot cold yesterday morning, straight from the cabinet - but I feel the 20 shots the day before do count as 'practice'. Should add this image is on its side.

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Now this. Not strictly the Black Dot Of Doom - the circle is a touch larger, and not a dot. However, in every other respect it was shot by the rules: straight from cabinet, no sighting shots, so practice. The purpose here was to track down an accuracy problem that had been bothering me. As it turns out, there is NO accuracy problem - there's just a periodic operator problem! This was a .308 HeymSR21. Shooting Norma 150gr BTs, off a back pack. No mod. 6X42 scope. Two groups of 5, shot about an hour apart (wind dropped betweem , which I think explains the ths shift in POI). I know it can't count in Caorach's data, but I'm so pleased with it that I feel the need to post anyway!

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Mungo said:
Finally got a chance to do this with the larger rifles. First up - .243. Tikka T3, shooting Federal 100gr soft points. Bipod and fist under butt. No moderator, 3-9 X50 scope, set on 9. Nasty unpredictable cross wind, guting up to an estimated 25 mph. First two shots were good, the one 'flyer' was entirely my fault - the Flinch came back without warning. I dio, however, have to come clean about this: I had shot the rifle the day before to sort out a zero problem (was shooting about 3 inches high and to the right). This was shot cold yesterday morning, straight from the cabinet - but I feel the 20 shots the day before do count as 'practice'. Should add this image is on its side.

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Now this. Not strictly the Black Dot Of Doom - the circle is a touch larger, and not a dot. However, in every other respect it was shot by the rules: straight from cabinet, no sighting shots, so practice. The purpose here was to track down an accuracy problem that had been bothering me. As it turns out, there is NO accuracy problem - there's just a periodic operator problem! This was a .308 HeymSR21. Shooting Norma 150gr BTs, off a back pack. No mod. 6X42 scope. Two groups of 5, shot about an hour apart (wind dropped betweem , which I think explains the ths shift in POI). I know it can't count in Caorach's data, but I'm so pleased with it that I feel the need to post anyway!

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Mungo - that Heym obviously doesn't shoot well. Those are 1/2 inch groups in windy conditions - you should do better :)
 
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