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What $33k Worth Of Bolt Rifles Looks Like


Zak Smith

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And a couple AR's thrown in for good measure.

Here's one of the targets we were shooting. It's a 17.5" wide by 29" high IPSC steel plate painted white with a green 8-10" circle in the middle. Who can mill it accurately?

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Here's one of the targets we were shooting. It's a 17.5" wide by 29" high IPSC steel plate painted white with a green 8-10" circle in the middle. Who can mill it accurately?

mill it? i cant even see it.

those are some nice looking rifles Zak.

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Assuming the big hashmarks are 1 mil and it is at the right magnification for the mils to be correct I'd guess .35 mil wide?

17.5/36=.486 yds

.486x1000/.35 = 1388 yds

How far is it?

Ok Ok I think your closer than me .... but what about the wind? can you see the wind?

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Not sure what this 'Mil' thing is...

I figured you'd just get a case or two of cold beer, about 6 or 8 guys and just keep shooting till someone hits it!!!

Wait a minute, I think I've figured it out. Mil is just a slang term you fellas use for Old Milwaukee!!! So your trying to guess how many old 'Mil's it will take for someone to hit the target...

Depending on the weather and munchies I'd say about 10 or 12 Mil's each.

:D:PB)

BTW...Nice looking collection of pea-shooters ya got there!!!

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1514 +/- 8

Zak, I'm not familiar with using the mil graduations in reticles, and there are darn few places in the northeast to allow 1500+ yards. But, did you use the scope for the ranging, or did you use a laser rangefinder? I've seen some posts here about the high end rangefinders, that's why I inquired. By the way, if it weren't for your red arrow, I never would have seen that target! :)

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1514 +/- 8

Zak, I'm not familiar with using the mil graduations in reticles, and there are darn few places in the northeast to allow 1500+ yards. But, did you use the scope for the ranging, or did you use a laser rangefinder? I've seen some posts here about the high end rangefinders, that's why I inquired. By the way, if it weren't for your red arrow, I never would have seen that target! :)

To range it, we used (1) GPS, and (2) verification by actual elevation used to hit target.

Neither of the range-finders we had (mine a LRF1200 and his maybe a Burris) will range that far, even in ideal conditions.

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Wow. Milling at that range sucks.

The target would be .486*1000/1514 => .321 mil wide.

I was off by .35 - .321 = .029 mil. .029 mil error translates into a 1514 - 1388 = 126 yard error.

I don't think I could have seen the dust that the errant rounds would kick up and wouldn't have been able to use it to adjust. I would have had to skip that target. :(

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