Dad stayed over night and we hit the range at about 5:45 a.m. We took the Savage .308 with my special hand-loads that I've been using lately. It was a clear morning with a very light breeze from right to left. Dad and I walked up the hill at 1K and set up the target. He then stayed right there so that he could call out my shots. I drove back to the shooting position and set up for the shot. about 3 minutes after the sunrise it was 46 degrees, and the station pressure was 24.86. I used 90 clicks in the scope (due to the heavier air), and shot 2 shots. Both of them appeared to be high to me, so I had Dad walk over and check it out. We used our phones and he showed me (I watched him through the scope with the bolt open) where I had missed high and left. I then dropped the Vortex Viper PST 4-16x50 scope 1 click, and held about 18 inches right for wind correction. I fired a shot and had him check it out. It landed in the cardboard, so now I knew what had to happen. I then took 3 more shots in quick succession. Those are the 4 shots along the top in the picture. I took 1 more click out of the scope (now at 88 clicks like the previous outing), and shot the bottom 2 shots you see under the bulls eye.
Now that we had things dialed in pretty well, Dad set up a clay pigeon for me to hit. I've never tried trap shooting at 1000 yards before, but it was fun. Overall, I took 6 shots at the clay pigeon and hit all around it. I wasn't able to break it this time, but I'll try again!
It was fun shooting at that range with Dad there. He got pretty brave after a few shots and was only standing about 25 feet away from the target! It was pretty crazy, because even at about 12x (the scope setting I used for most of the shots) I could see him standing there just inside my field of view in the scope! He said it was much louder than he though it would be. Dad said that the impact noise of the bullets were somewhere between a .22 LR and a 9mm pistol. Then 1.5 seconds later, he would rear the report of the rifle. As expected, since the .308 is still super-sonic (especially my reloads) at 1000 yards, he couldn't hear anything before the bullets impacted.
