1000 to 1500 yard scope set up.

bruce moulds · Post by **bruce moulds** » Mon Feb 11, 2013 10:10 pm

norm,
get a tang sight and mount it on the heel of your stock.
this will allow you to shoot one of the back positions.
this is commonly done in britain today.
keep safe,
bruce.

johnk · Post by **johnk** » Mon Feb 11, 2013 10:16 pm

bruce moulds wrote:i believe billy dixon used a 50/2.5" (again 90 to 110 gn of powder).

... and he missed with his first 2 shots

... and he himself agreed that it was no more than a lucky shot.

bruce moulds · Post by **bruce moulds** » Tue Feb 12, 2013 7:44 am

that's right john.
a few sighters never hurt. as far as lucky shot,
if you were coyote shit you might have called it an unlucky shot.
keep safe,
bruce.

Gadget · Post by **Gadget** » Tue Feb 12, 2013 8:20 am

1500 @ Coona with a 180g x 7mm saum 41moa up from a 100m zero, got to love that saum.

just don't tell anyone :oops:

Graham P

mike H · Post by **mike H** » Tue Feb 12, 2013 10:34 am

I didn`t have my usual Match Rifle with me last year at Coonabarabran,the figure quoted was 21 minutes above the 1200 yard setting,with usual Match Rifle loads.I was using a 26" barrelled Omark with 175 grain SMK`s,there was 12 minutes of elevation left after 1200 yards,so used mil dots to get there,probably 26 minutes in total.After a few shots went and helped the markers who were having a hard job with subsonic bullets having no sound and not kicking up dust on impact.The long range F/class rounds however were wacking in quite well.
The 22 power scope would be more than adequate,for the size of the target,16 power is enough.
Mike.