We were doing our normal Saturday shoot and kinda bored. I said, lets go bang on the mile. We skipped it last year because its a hassle to get to and the only target to hit is the Mile and 1350. Totally forgot to take a stab at the 1350.
WE went 2 for 5 with the 300 WM with the Horndog 230g A-tips. 17.5 mils Then just stunk up the place with the new Tikka 223, couldn’t even spot our misses. And didn’t do much better with 6.5CM. I did smack it after countless rounds getting wind hosed. Left right right left left left right right. I will say we were only missing on wind for the most part. If it was not so windy we could have done pretty well with 6.5cm.
Wind is real tough at that distance. We’ve shot a mile+ with 6mm and 6.5 Creed etc, but it’s been on fairly calm days. With 6mm, it’s hard to even spot the hits on steel, so we would typically use electronic flashers that would light up on impacts.
Awesome, the flashers definitely help alot, and ya 300WM is great. I just put together a new 300PRC for a long range hunting rifle. Haven’t shot it past the 100 yard sight in yet, but looking forward to pushing it out to distance. Just need it to stop snowing here so i can get out
The flashers saved us on Saturday. Pappabear went 3 for 5 with the Tikka .223. We finally got the poof on the hill that let us know we were a couple mils short. The 2 little marks bottom center, and the one middle right are 88 gr ELDMs from mile out!!!
Wow, you guys are crazy & lucky all in one! Crazy to even try a shot like that but then fortunate to have the access and place to shoot at such a distance, very cool! It looks like a buddy in our group has an area where we can get out to 800/850ish so I am excited about that, just waiting for the dam weather to come around in a couple of months. I need to work on my 88 ELDs a bit more and see if I can make some improvements, not being very successful at the moment markm, maybe I’ll hit you up with some questions and such and get a general idea of where you’re at. Please keep us updated for sure, it looks like you’re having some fun.
Well, PB, I got good news for ya and maybe bad news and the bad will cost you, $$$ LOL. I did take your OAL and put mine in that area and I even bought the single feed sled from MT and it worked fine. But I did not leave stuff alone & I bought the MDT stock/Chassie along with magazines from MDT, both metal & plastic. It’s obvious they added a little of their own tweaks cuz my 88 ELD bullets @ or around 2.50 OAL will fit and function in these mags, I was very impressed and quite happy about it. Anyways here are a couple of pics showing everything, there could even be another hair or two of length still available if needed but I think it should be good where I’m at, but will try less OAL also and see if that makes a difference. I’ll keep plugging along and see what I come up with, hope you continue to have great success with your setup, I know I love mine. Have a great week.
Plastic MDT mag on the left, Stock Tikka in the middle, and Metal MDT on the right.
Yes, that would be cool and much cheaper, LOL. The MDT mags aren’t terrible but obviously, you need a bottom metal that will take them. Mountain Tactical makes the bottom metal but ya need to fit it into your current factory stock, I didn’t want to mess with it so I spent $600+++ instead,:help:
27.5 mils. (compared to a 17.5ish come up for 300 WM) 40 MOA base on the gun because we knew we’d try to shoot it long range… so it’s all dialed up… no hold over due to running out of scope.
ALSO: The led hit indicator was critical because there was extra chatter between shots, and hearing a 223 hit the gong would be hard.
