If you keep doing something, you're bound to get it right eventually. This same little target walked up the hill with me for the fourth time today. He must have known his days were numbered. I must have spent an entire box of bullets on this one piece of card board in the last six weeks. The difference was that today the snow was just patchy enough that I was able to see the spray of my bullets upon impact. Without a spotter it can be very difficult to know where you are hitting, and that has killed me the last 3 times that I have shot at 1000 yards. Today I did everything I could do re-acquire the sight picture before the impact of the bullets approximately 1.6 seconds after the shot. I started using 136 (1/4 MOA clicks) in the Vortex Viper scope. Same gun as before, the Savage 10FP, chambered in .308 Winchester. I was using 175 grain Black Hills Match 308 ammo. The first couple of shots appeared to be high and left, so I took one click of elevation out, and gave myself 2 clicks to the right. In summary, these 3 shots were at 135 clicks up from Zero.
