...it was so orderly, it was like a military event. It was almost an anti-climax after getting pumped up the past two days on precision shooting at long range.
Get up, have coffee, toss down some hand food, get into ALL the warm gear for the biting wind and temps in the 30's, get the gun gear back out, set up a shooting table and scope, and at the appointed time, brief in and then go shoot. In the photo below, Joe Huffman gives the briefing, standing on the prone-berm against a leaden sky.
I shot first, and I fired one "barrel heater" round at 380 yards with the .243 that almost hit a boomer, then I boomed it on the second shot. Minute of angle, spotter talking me in to the 3" target.
That's the way it's supposed to be.
Shot about 40 rounds of ammo, but only blew up one more boomer (I hit about 4 more that were confirmed kills but they did not explode), and that one was at 575 yards with the .243. My scope sight, a Nikon ProStaff 3X9 with bullet-drop compensating reticule, is perfect for this kind of work. The bullet-drop "bubbles" on the lower vertical crosshair subtend one MOA perfectly.
I'm beginning to believe that almost any decent hunting rifle with a decent scope is capable of this level of accuracy.
The shooters just have to learn to believe in their own latent ability.
I do now.
Thank you Joe Huffman and especially Gene Econ, the master rifle instructor. This was the best weekend of fun and skill improvement I've had in a long, long time.
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