Stoked that my M1A scout finally got to stretch her legs out to 600 yards
Starting at 100 yards shooting some standing drills with cheapo ball ammo, I switched to my newly developed 168 Gr HPBT hand loads and was able to walk her out to 600 yards supported on my bag off a bench. Before this range trip, I had somewhere around ~2500 rounds through my rifle, all shot at a range of 200 yards or under.
I’ve got no chronograph so it took a bit to figure out my holds. I got somewhat lucky and managed to get first round impacts on IPSC and ~3 MOA gong targets out to 400 yards. Once I more or less worked out my DOPE, I was making fairly consistent hits on an IPSC target at 500 yards and a 20 inch gong at 600 yards. I know, I know, it’s hardly long range shooting but it’s definitely a lot more fun to shoot at these ranges than the 25 or 100-200 yards pretty much all the ranges offer near me.
To me it felt the only limiting factor was the super simplistic reticle on my Vortex Viper 1-6x. It has me wondering if I should upgrade from my venerable LPVO to something like an MPVO with a piggy back dot... Not that my wallet could support that upgrade right now lol.