I taught a 2-day class on the 1,000 yard range at Elk River Training Center in Pelham TN. Weather was perfect.
All the students except for 1 brought .308’s, with the lone exception being a Remington 700 Sendero stainless/fluted .300WinMag.
The magnum shooter was using a milliradian scope (a Leupold M5) and everyone else was using MOA. One student started out with a rifle that had a mil scope on it, but switched to another rifle that had an MOA scope. 1 student had a Vortex Viper (non-PST) that had a mil-dot reticle and .25MOA turrets. I hadn’t seen a scope like that in a loooooong time!
One shooter started the course with a FNAR .308, couldn’t get it to group satisfactorily, and swapped to a DPMS .308. That rifle was the sole semi-auto in the class, with the remainder being bolt actions. All the bolt actions were Remington 700’s, mostly stock or lightly tuned/modified/dropped into a chassis. 1 rifle was a full-blown custom on a Remington action.
Scopes were a mix of Nightforce ATACR and SHV, Sightron, Leupold, and the aforementioned Vortex.
Once I got all the shooters squared away, they were merrily ringing steel at 1,000yds on day 2.
Funny incident. While dialing in his initial dope for 1,000yds, the shooter with the Vortex ran out of elevation. Not only that, when he dialed it against the stop, it stuck there. He tried to dial it back down and unscrewed the entire turret and housing from the scope! I guesstimated as best I could what elevation he had dialed in, gave him a 1mil holdover to go with it, and he was ringing steel with the rest of them. Off to Vortex she’ll go!
He’s the 2MOA, 1,000yd target.
All the students except for 1 brought .308’s, with the lone exception being a Remington 700 Sendero stainless/fluted .300WinMag.
The magnum shooter was using a milliradian scope (a Leupold M5) and everyone else was using MOA. One student started out with a rifle that had a mil scope on it, but switched to another rifle that had an MOA scope. 1 student had a Vortex Viper (non-PST) that had a mil-dot reticle and .25MOA turrets. I hadn’t seen a scope like that in a loooooong time!
One shooter started the course with a FNAR .308, couldn’t get it to group satisfactorily, and swapped to a DPMS .308. That rifle was the sole semi-auto in the class, with the remainder being bolt actions. All the bolt actions were Remington 700’s, mostly stock or lightly tuned/modified/dropped into a chassis. 1 rifle was a full-blown custom on a Remington action.
Scopes were a mix of Nightforce ATACR and SHV, Sightron, Leupold, and the aforementioned Vortex.
Once I got all the shooters squared away, they were merrily ringing steel at 1,000yds on day 2.
Funny incident. While dialing in his initial dope for 1,000yds, the shooter with the Vortex ran out of elevation. Not only that, when he dialed it against the stop, it stuck there. He tried to dial it back down and unscrewed the entire turret and housing from the scope! I guesstimated as best I could what elevation he had dialed in, gave him a 1mil holdover to go with it, and he was ringing steel with the rest of them. Off to Vortex she’ll go!
He’s the 2MOA, 1,000yd target.
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