My first Three at 300

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Re: My first Three at 300

Post by Member-Deleted » 13 Sep 2018, 12:49 am

The Swarovski is a nice scope alright on my 7mag I have a Z3 with etched reticle very fine xhair also the zeiss has pretty much the same
Z3 is 4-12x50 and the Zeiss is 3-12x50 it's on my 22-250 both are perfect for what I do
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Re: My first Three at 300

Post by Daddybang » 13 Sep 2018, 7:20 am

Nicey done! :thumbsup: :drinks:
One day I'll get the opportunity to stretch a bit at the moment most shots are less than 100.
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Re: My first Three at 300

Post by Stix » 13 Sep 2018, 11:21 am

only 12X power scopes.
Mate you must have great eyes :thumbsup:
my eyes are cactus & i like at least 18x, even better with 24x.

I wish my eyes were like they used to be... :violin:
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Re: My first Three at 300

Post by Stix » 13 Sep 2018, 11:24 am

Thanks Daddybang :thumbsup:

If you're ever down here id be happy to have you out for a snipe :drinks:
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Re: My first Three at 300

Post by Member-Deleted » 13 Sep 2018, 7:26 pm

It's funny you say that Stix I need glasses to read anything but my sight at long distance is very good :thumbsup:
my eye doctor said he can't explain it and another thing I don't like bright lights if I look directly at a good torch I can't see properly for about half hour :thumbsdown:
It has to be a night as black as black before I can't see an outline of anything I've been told that's pretty rare but not unheard of :unknown:
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Re: My first Three at 300

Post by Noisydad » 14 Sep 2018, 7:03 am

"Hey Noisy...you'd be surprised what little bullets can do & how far they fly these days mate...not cast these dsys--now they're designed with a copper coating & a plastic tip that promotes expansion--but its all fueled by this new wave modern propellants thats getting around...& you DONT need breathing apparatus to shoot lots of them...!! :sarcasm:
Yes ofcourse it makes me want more...shooting anything makes us want to shoot more of anything...!! (Doesnt it..?)
I liked that vid you posted in other thread--id love to give that a crack with you..!! :drinks: "
I reckon my Sharps (in the video) bullets have a greater weight of bullet lube on them than the weight of your bullets! As for those new fangled lookin glass sights...that's just cheatin! If you're anywhere in north central Vic on the second weekend of the month let me know and I'll guarantee you a good time.
There's still a few of Wile. E Coyote's ideas that I haven't tried yet.
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Re: My first Three at 300

Post by Daddybang » 14 Sep 2018, 7:11 am

Stix wrote:Thanks Daddybang :thumbsup:

If you're ever down here id be happy to have you out for a snipe :drinks:


Long service kicks in next year and we want to take the spawn for a look at her country before she starts school so who knows I might get the chance to take ya up on that!! :thumbsup: :drinks:
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Re: My first Three at 300

Post by Elmer » 14 Sep 2018, 5:06 pm

Stix wrote:So...ive wanted the opportunity for a long time...
Congrats mate, 351 is a bloody decent range. I remember my first "long range" Bunny, a whopping 230yds , I was stoked and couldn't stop talking about it.
Get yaself a decent scope and start getting serious, its loads of fun and you will be hooked in no time
cheers
Sean.

Have a crack at a bunny at 300 yds & over, but the opportunity just doesnt ever seem to arise for me.

There i was, after a day of target shooting, with a 2 hour drive home ahead of me, & it coming on sunset, i thought id call into a block 10k down the road to try my luck.
The farmer had mentioned that every time he drives in there that bunnies scatter.

So i pulled up out on the main bitumen drag & had an optic nerve through the range finder...it took a bit of looking, but eventually i saw the outline of a bunny, then another, then another...

So i pulled in & drove past the rise so i could see the bunnies, ranged them at around 200 yds, the furthest being 230 ish...
The doubting thomas thoughts of reversing back to 300 yds & making a good shot crept in & so i pulled the rifle & bag out over the bonnet.

I had just spent an entire day on a bench so my trigger finger was on the ball, so i dry fired at one bunny, then at a further one, & it looked so dam good through the scope i decided to risk disturbing the furry critters & reversed the car back a decent ways.

The sun was dissapearing over the horizon so i had to make it snappy as the cheap as crap scope i have on the rifle needs a good few gamma rays to be able to resolve anything thats small, grey, furry & so far away.

The scope is also not behaving well in that it is not repeatable--come up 4 clicks & nothing happens, then come up another 4 clicks & the POI lowers by .25" before suddenly jumping up 2.5", so dialing holdover wasn't an option, i had to guess it. :problem:

The range finder said about 270 yds (but hard to tell from interfering structure in the forground).

The first first shot went a good 2-3" over the first bunnies head, to which upset the clan & had them all darting around like someone was shooting at them :unknown: .

Once they settled & the uneasy (smart) ones went & hid in their laundries, i lobbed another shot at one having a munch on some grass & i rekon i pierced his ears :lol: if not was VERY close to its head given his matrix moves :P ...he vanished, but flushed out some kinky cousins who were apparently up for piercings.

Another frustrating thing about this scope is the thickness of the cross hairs, they are so thick that it makes picking points in the distance for hold-over very hard...not to mention at that range the reticle lines cover so much of the image-in this case basically the entire head of a rabbit.

Ok surely this time...i can see one thats been still off to the right..its a little further away at around the 300 mark, but i give it a crack... 8-)
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Thats my first 300 yarder, played for a head shot, but cracked it in the neck.


Then another shot, & hey presto...not as good a shot, & a way off its head but still it fell over...311 yards back to the car in the backround :clap:
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So i thought thats enough, ill go get them & go home...but who was i kidding--the opportunity doesn't arise very often at all, & i saw another way up the back & decided to send off another one, really concentrating on that trigger making sure of not pulling it off line...
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:D
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So this one managed to drag itself a metre or so before it succumbed to blood loss & shock.
While im disapointed i didnt crack it in the head where i had aimed, im pretty happy with the shot placement at that range being just a smidge below the chipset..standing over this one the car pinged at 350-351 yds. :clap: Bludy stoked...!!
The round is 204 shooting the el'cheapo 32gr Zmax & the load is not hot at all...and i should add that there was not a breath of wind to deal with, so i had it easy for my first trifecta at 300yds :thumbsup:
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So this was the sight just as id packed everything away for the trip home last night...nice...!!
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excuse my self indulgence--i know its not much for some, but its my first 300 yarder, & first 300 metres plus bunny all in the one sitting, not to mention with a stock rifle...im pretty stoked...!! :D :drinks:
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Re: My first Three at 300

Post by Stix » 14 Sep 2018, 9:25 pm

Thanks Elmer :thumbsup:

Ive been well hooked on sniping bunnies all my life so dont worry about that...!!!

Its just that sniping for me has been 100yds with a 22 or couple hundred yards with 22CF, & longest headshot before now was 284 yds...but never cracked em that far (300m+) before...

Ive got a fair way to go before i catch up to you though...!!

Cheers :drinks:
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