So I took off work today to go out and get my AR comp load on paper at 300 and 600 yards today.This range has a rule that in order to shoot at the 600 yard line you first have to put 5 shots in the white on one of their targets. The target size is 2 MOA. Driving up to the place the wind seemed fine but once I got out of my car and looked at the windage flags I realized I may be in for a long day. My weather app said the wind was NNW at 12mph but it was gusting at what I thought was 10-15 mph. It started out right, then would shift left, then would be a head wind. So needless to say I had a fun day of shooting. Their range setup is kind of odd and its one where you drive out and put your own targets up. The problem is the framing that you staple your targets to is so large that you have to have one of their targets to fit. So I have several shots on one piece of paper because I would peel and stick one of my targets on there. Fire 10 rounds and then go pull those targets off, etc. My first 10 or so shots were low and all over the place. I looked down at my DOPE book to see if I messed something up and I noticed I had put 2800 fps in my Strelok calculator instead of the 2480 fps that my load actually runs at. The wind was shifting all over the place so I eventually stopped doping the wind on my turrets and started using holds. Once I did that my groups got alot better. I had a 4.5" group to start, then I adjusted my turrets to the correct elevation and had a 5.5" group but at least the elevation was on. Then I changed my approach on the wind as mentioned above and had a 3.01" group, then a 2.86", and my best of the day was 2.035". All 5 shots. The sad thing is that I decided I was going to go ahead and qualify to move to 600 and didnt. So I put up their official target and ended up with 2 shots high in the red and I could not qualify to move up. So no 600 yard groups today. I have a picture of the white/orange target. It was a real bummer.I kept trying to let the wind die down between shots but it was rare. There were a couple of times where I was able to break off two shots with no wind and I actually had a couple of hole in hole shots, but overall it wasnt my best day of shooting. I have attached pictures of the results. The load is 28.3 grains of AR comp, 123 Amax, 2.255 OAL. 18" 1x9 BHW barrel.
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