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Shooting Technique -- horizontal stringing
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<blockquote data-quote="zupatun" data-source="post: 164666" data-attributes="member: 3533"><p>Well, I haven't been to the range all summer, but took my handload I worked on in the winter out to the range. The velocity looks like it is now about 2675 instead of 2750 (calculated, I don't have a chrono...) because the drop is about 1moa lower at 300yds than I expected. That said, my horizontal stringing at 300 yards is about 1.5MOA or about 4.5". The vertical is about 0.24 MOA. I was using a bag on top of a block of wood for the front and a monopod for the rear with a firm grip but relaxed trigger finger.</p><p></p><p>Load was 44.5Gr Varget with a 165gr IB for 308 win brass in my Tikka T3 (Tubbs FF smoothed barrel) Varmint. I waited 5 minutes between shots. Ambient temps were around 85 deg. wind was dead still up and down the range.</p><p></p><p>Same issues as back when with horizontal stringing. I am using good finger placement, but as I haven't practiced much maybe my grip and thumb placement hasn't been very repeatable. Also, while I have parallax adjusted for 300yds the crosshairs are freqently out of focus even when the target is in focus. I'm finding it hard to keep both in focus. I was really focusing on relaxing my breathing, and not anticipating...</p><p></p><p>Any comments are welcome. Plan on going out next Monday to see if I can repeat or improve on these results. Not horrible for the first trip this year, but not great either.</p><p></p><p>Matt</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="zupatun, post: 164666, member: 3533"] Well, I haven't been to the range all summer, but took my handload I worked on in the winter out to the range. The velocity looks like it is now about 2675 instead of 2750 (calculated, I don't have a chrono...) because the drop is about 1moa lower at 300yds than I expected. That said, my horizontal stringing at 300 yards is about 1.5MOA or about 4.5". The vertical is about 0.24 MOA. I was using a bag on top of a block of wood for the front and a monopod for the rear with a firm grip but relaxed trigger finger. Load was 44.5Gr Varget with a 165gr IB for 308 win brass in my Tikka T3 (Tubbs FF smoothed barrel) Varmint. I waited 5 minutes between shots. Ambient temps were around 85 deg. wind was dead still up and down the range. Same issues as back when with horizontal stringing. I am using good finger placement, but as I haven't practiced much maybe my grip and thumb placement hasn't been very repeatable. Also, while I have parallax adjusted for 300yds the crosshairs are freqently out of focus even when the target is in focus. I'm finding it hard to keep both in focus. I was really focusing on relaxing my breathing, and not anticipating... Any comments are welcome. Plan on going out next Monday to see if I can repeat or improve on these results. Not horrible for the first trip this year, but not great either. Matt [/QUOTE]
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