22-250 Bunny busting pt2

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22-250 Bunny busting pt2

Post by Elmer » 11 Oct 2015, 3:04 pm

Well I was back at the same patch as last week for the second round of long range Bunny busting.
The day was 33c with around 20k NNW which thankfully calmed down to around 5k by late afternoon.
At around 3pm they came out in droves all three large warrens had healthy numbers but I mainly concentrated on the furthest warren where the range started at about 389 mts (425yds).
The first one targeted for extermination was at 496mts (542yds) , elevation was set at 7.3 moa, windage at 1.1moa for a 4k crosswind., parallax focused and after the reticule settled on vermin’s chest a 55gn Hornady vmax was sent on its way to connect half a second later placing vermin on his side and sending him towards the light.
Second one was at 423mts(463yds) elevation set to 5.2moa , same windage as before and another vmax on its way to remove the rear of vermin’s cranium.
Third at 432mts (472yds), elevation at 5.3moa, windage at 0.3moa , camera rolling, the reticule quartering his chest and another vmax connecting with victim dumping him on his side.
Fourth at 498mts (may have been 500) 545yds , this one looked tiny even with the scope on 20x . Elevation at 8.0moa, 0.2moa windage and after waiting for him to give me a side shot a 55grainer was released; the bullet entered behind the front shoulder and turned his rear end into pizza.
The Fifth was the easiest one for the day , at 384mts (420yds) 4.1moa elevation, 0 windage and an easy broadside shot , the victim was dumped on his side with a bullet through his boiler room.
Once again because of the heat, mirage was causing problems with the range finder , past 400mts it would often throw false readings and sometimes not at all. The white tiles are placed there to provide a reflective surface but even then the finder was having trouble reading of those.
Having said that , the 250 performed very well and has lived up to the task for which it was purchased for ,that is to fill the gap between the .223 and .260 at ranges from 400- 550/600 yds.
Cheers,
Sean.
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Re: 22-250 Bunny busting pt2

Post by tom604 » 11 Oct 2015, 5:19 pm

look at all the young ones :D you wont run out in a hurry :thumbsup: great shooting as allways :thumbsup:
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Re: 22-250 Bunny busting pt2

Post by bigfellascott » 11 Oct 2015, 5:58 pm

Lovely shooting Sean, you won't be running out of any targets soon going by all the young ones!
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Re: 22-250 Bunny busting pt2

Post by YoungBuck » 11 Oct 2015, 7:44 pm

Popping bunnies at 1/2 a km away...that is some amazing shooting mate.
It'll shoot the fleas off a dog's back at five hundred yards, Tannen, and it's pointed straight at your head!
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Post by gazza » 11 Oct 2015, 8:41 pm

Awesome shooting. So many rabbits around atm.
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Post by Title_II » 11 Oct 2015, 11:29 pm

Nice shooting!

Great video, too.
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Re: 22-250 Bunny busting pt2

Post by Elmer » 13 Oct 2015, 5:38 pm

tom604 wrote:look at all the young ones :D you wont run out in a hurry :thumbsup: great shooting as allways :thumbsup:

Cheers tom, its always nice when the numbers are up....
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Post by Elmer » 13 Oct 2015, 5:41 pm

bigfellascott wrote:Lovely shooting Sean, you won't be running out of any targets soon going by all the young ones!

Thanks Scott, your right mate, Im very selective as to what areas I shoot in , If i really wanted to I could have wiped them all out but thats just stupid, sustainable targets is my motto :lol:
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Post by Elmer » 13 Oct 2015, 5:45 pm

YoungBuck wrote:Popping bunnies at 1/2 a km away...that is some amazing shooting mate.

Thanks Buddy, they look bloody small through the scope...will be working on some long range loads using Hornady 140gn amax pills for my .260, so I can start picking them off past the 600 mark. :thumbsup:
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Re: 22-250 Bunny busting pt2

Post by Elmer » 13 Oct 2015, 5:46 pm

gazza wrote:Awesome shooting. So many rabbits around atm.

Cheers gazza, yeah its nice to see them in healthy numbers again.
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Re: 22-250 Bunny busting pt2

Post by Elmer » 13 Oct 2015, 5:48 pm

Title_II wrote:Nice shooting!

Great video, too.

Thanks mate :thumbsup:
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Re: 22-250 Bunny busting pt2

Post by YoungBuck » 13 Oct 2015, 6:38 pm

Elmer wrote:...will be working on some long range loads using Hornady 140gn amax pills for my .260, so I can start picking them off past the 600 mark. :thumbsup:

I look forward to seeing the video of it! :clap:
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Re: 22-250 Bunny busting pt2

Post by chacka » 14 Oct 2015, 9:02 am

Bunny vaporising more like with a 22-250 :mrgreen:
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