A bunch of cool news as of late!
Last weekend was the Arizona state FT match which was fun in itself. But some of us were camped and stayed until Monday. There is a gravel pit in close vicinity. I put this steel man silhouette at 210Y on the far end of the pit. You can see the size of it and the brown flappers it has, one to the side of the head that flips to either side, and the one in the middle that flips to the left side. The nice thing was that I was able to stick the stand into a giant gravel mound so we could see hits in the gravel easily since the target was only a foot away from the gravel! Also its painted white and as you can see the hits show up well too.
Wind was 2-5 mph so not much....also we all shot off sticks and buckets.
When I began shooting I hit the center flapper on the 4th shot and hit the head flapper shortly after. Berry came about then so I asked him if he wanted to shoot SLUGSURELY. It happened to fit his shooting stick saddle perfectly so he went for the target. Wasn't long and he had hit it enough to be satisfied. I could tell he enjoyed the experience. A while later I hit the flappers 3 times in a row which really got me excited!
Van also shot at the silhouette but with his Daystate Redwolf and with pellets. He did quite well. The wind would blow the pellet more so it was tougher to hit consistently for him but he'd still nail it and even hit the flappers once in a while. He also hit the empty paint can I had set up about 208Y.
Bobby used his Daystate Safari and 20.5gr NSA in 17 caliber. He hit the silhouette on the first shot and didn't have trouble connecting on it. Hit the flappers too.
Then we shot at shotgun shell hulls and cans from 125Y to 163Y. There was nothing safe at these distances and we connected a lot. All in all I think we enjoyed spotting for each other, calling out corrections for each other, and watching the hulls and cans jump around through our scopes as much as hitting them ourselves.
The pic is from the 2nd painting, it was hit way more than this.
TODAY was an awesome day for me!!!
I went out to John's and SLUGSURLEY was shooting well. Just nailing the steel from 50Y onwards except that darn 300Y bobcat was still not easy to hit so I stopped for a while. As the evening went on the wind died down some so I decided to look way way up on the hill for a rock to shoot at. I found one at 320Y and hit it a few times. Then I found a bigger rock, maybe 16" tall and 2 feet wide higher up the hill 17 degrees at 391 yards so I dialed the 31.2 mils elevation according to my ballistic app into my March Genesis 4-40x52. I was within inches of it on the first shot and hit it a few times. There was a smaller rock about 6" tall and a foot wide to the left of the big one about 4 feet away so I tried to hit it. I got it 3 shots later and hit it a few more times. Randy hit it a few times as well as Johns friend Steve hitting it on the second shot. John only took one shot and barely missed over the top.
For the fun of it I set the scope in the rear bag to stay on the rock with the 31.2 mils dialed on then put the scope back down to the zero stop, then put it on 4x magnification. WOW the center of the reticle was 30 to 40-ish feet over the top of the hill aimed into the sky!!!! What a revelation that was, lol!
Another experiment was dialing the scope all the way up 80 plus mils and back down to the zero stop. Then I shot at the 50Y target, smack right in the middle.
I was able to compare the new March to Randy's Swarovski X5 5-25x56 which has the best glass I've seen to date. To me the March resolved ever so slightly less and honestly it was hard to tell either way.
I am so happy with this scope!
Last weekend was the Arizona state FT match which was fun in itself. But some of us were camped and stayed until Monday. There is a gravel pit in close vicinity. I put this steel man silhouette at 210Y on the far end of the pit. You can see the size of it and the brown flappers it has, one to the side of the head that flips to either side, and the one in the middle that flips to the left side. The nice thing was that I was able to stick the stand into a giant gravel mound so we could see hits in the gravel easily since the target was only a foot away from the gravel! Also its painted white and as you can see the hits show up well too.
Wind was 2-5 mph so not much....also we all shot off sticks and buckets.
When I began shooting I hit the center flapper on the 4th shot and hit the head flapper shortly after. Berry came about then so I asked him if he wanted to shoot SLUGSURELY. It happened to fit his shooting stick saddle perfectly so he went for the target. Wasn't long and he had hit it enough to be satisfied. I could tell he enjoyed the experience. A while later I hit the flappers 3 times in a row which really got me excited!
Van also shot at the silhouette but with his Daystate Redwolf and with pellets. He did quite well. The wind would blow the pellet more so it was tougher to hit consistently for him but he'd still nail it and even hit the flappers once in a while. He also hit the empty paint can I had set up about 208Y.
Bobby used his Daystate Safari and 20.5gr NSA in 17 caliber. He hit the silhouette on the first shot and didn't have trouble connecting on it. Hit the flappers too.
Then we shot at shotgun shell hulls and cans from 125Y to 163Y. There was nothing safe at these distances and we connected a lot. All in all I think we enjoyed spotting for each other, calling out corrections for each other, and watching the hulls and cans jump around through our scopes as much as hitting them ourselves.
The pic is from the 2nd painting, it was hit way more than this.
TODAY was an awesome day for me!!!
I went out to John's and SLUGSURLEY was shooting well. Just nailing the steel from 50Y onwards except that darn 300Y bobcat was still not easy to hit so I stopped for a while. As the evening went on the wind died down some so I decided to look way way up on the hill for a rock to shoot at. I found one at 320Y and hit it a few times. Then I found a bigger rock, maybe 16" tall and 2 feet wide higher up the hill 17 degrees at 391 yards so I dialed the 31.2 mils elevation according to my ballistic app into my March Genesis 4-40x52. I was within inches of it on the first shot and hit it a few times. There was a smaller rock about 6" tall and a foot wide to the left of the big one about 4 feet away so I tried to hit it. I got it 3 shots later and hit it a few more times. Randy hit it a few times as well as Johns friend Steve hitting it on the second shot. John only took one shot and barely missed over the top.
For the fun of it I set the scope in the rear bag to stay on the rock with the 31.2 mils dialed on then put the scope back down to the zero stop, then put it on 4x magnification. WOW the center of the reticle was 30 to 40-ish feet over the top of the hill aimed into the sky!!!! What a revelation that was, lol!
Another experiment was dialing the scope all the way up 80 plus mils and back down to the zero stop. Then I shot at the 50Y target, smack right in the middle.
I was able to compare the new March to Randy's Swarovski X5 5-25x56 which has the best glass I've seen to date. To me the March resolved ever so slightly less and honestly it was hard to tell either way.
I am so happy with this scope!
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