2/12/2011 - It Ain't Easy

For the 3rd time in a row shooting at 1000 yards, I failed to produce a shot in the paper.  It was about 23 degrees, no noticeable wind, but I did have a slight mirage in the scope as the area began to warm in the early morning sun.  I shot eight shots total.  I was using the Savage 308 with Black Hills Match 175 grain bullets.  The scope was the Vortex Viper.  I was using 138 clicks of elevation in the scope to start out.  On the 5th shot, I finally saw a little splash of snow and realized that I was shooting high and left (too bad that the shot I saw was the worst of the day, just above the text... it caused me to over correct, since you can see that the scope elevation setting was almost dead on).  I dialed back down to 134 clicks, and entered 2 clicks of right windage and shot 3 more shots.  I'm not sure if the second grouping seen in the photos (the one at the right base of the target) consists of 2 or 3 shots.

2/5/2011 - Microwave Heaven

Today Dad came up and we swapped the scopes on a couple of his guns.  We put my Burris scope on his 7mm Remington Magnum, and a Tasco scope on his old .243 Winchester. We wanted to test the newly installed Timney trigger on the 7mm.  It isn't quite right.  The safety doesn't work properly and it sometimes won't allow you to fire.  That is going to need some extra TLC to get it working correctly.  I brought some exploding targets along and we found an old shot up microwave sitting there.  The door had been broken off, so I set the target on the ground and then placed the microwave over the target.  Then I simply shot through the microwave and into the exploding target.  Hind-sight is usually clearer than fore-sight, and as it turns out, we were probably a little close to the target in this case.  As you will see in the video, debris was falling ALL AROUND us.  We were about 40 yards away from it, and the camera was about 25 yard away.  There was also another shot with a smaller exploding target.  That is the one with the plywood board on top of it.