Open Invite...

[Luketrician]

Gonna try and schedule a day this week to go up to Prentice Cooper and shoot/sight in my new rifle. So if anyone else wants to go let me know and we can make a day of it. I would be interested to learn and see what others are shooting and any techniques that we can share would be cool.

 

[Luketrician]

Ok I copied this directly from the TWRA..

"Shooting Range
The shooting range is open Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Monday from sunrise to sunset, and Sundays from 1:00 pm ET until sunset. It is closed Tuesday and Wednesday, and during managed hunts."


These are the dates that the range is closed:
September 20-28
October 16-18
October 25-26
November 7-9
November 29 - December 4

I am thinking about going Monday afternoon. So if anyone else wants to go post up..or if there is a better date that works out for others I can adjust my schedule accordingly.

 

[fisherpal2k]

Sounds like a good day to be going. Hope you get the rifle sighted in and can have some fun. It's always fun to burn a little powder and spend a day out like that.

 

[Luketrician]

Yeah I'm looking forward to it. I'll be sure to post up my results afterwards. Hope to see yall out there..whoever can make it.

 

[Luketrician]

Went to the range today and shot about 30 rounds of 165gr IB 30-06 light magnum loads today. Was a great day to be out and I got the rifle zero'ed dead on at 50yds and 2" high at 100. So far I am really pleased with the Mossberg..and wish Prentice Cooper had a longer range so I could just see what I could do at say 400yds...oh well. I'm more than happy with what I got now.

LC

 

[churly]

You'd be surprised at how small a target looks at 400 yards! My crosshairs just about cover up a deer at that distance. You'd also be surprised at how much a 165 grain .30 caliber bullet will drop at that range. Check the shooters bible sometime, it has balistics charts for most calibers and it will give you an idea of how your shots will fly at long ranges.

 

[Luketrician]

Yeah, I have a ballistics chart for my ammo and it kinda threw me off to start. I had the gun zeroed in at 50 yds...but then I would shoot the 100yd target and my shots were grouping 2" high. Then I realized that the bullets flight actually went up. Kinda like an arch. I think the table that I have printed out shows that for a 400 yd shot the bullet will fall 13".