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Re: Long range for beginners
« Reply #120 on: March 31, 2018, 08:45:53 PM »
I've been shooting rocks but I like to hear the ring instead of a thud or just seeing a puff of dust.  Some times I shoot out in Davenport in the family's wheat fields and rocks can be tough to find at times out there
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Re: Long range for beginners
« Reply #121 on: April 01, 2018, 07:11:50 AM »
I'm a rock guy too but mainly due to the fact that packing steel back and forth on public land sucks.  When I do though I use T posts with t post hangers and ar500 plates from Matt at Dynamic metals.  Nice products at a fair price and he's a local just up the road from me.
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Re: Long range for beginners
« Reply #122 on: April 01, 2018, 09:12:45 AM »
I've been shooting rocks but I like to hear the ring instead of a thud or just seeing a puff of dust.  Some times I shoot out in Davenport in the family's wheat fields and rocks can be tough to find at times out there
I can’t hear anything with steel 2/3 mile away with earmuffs on. What am I doing wrong?

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Re: Long range for beginners
« Reply #123 on: April 01, 2018, 09:28:48 AM »
I've been shooting rocks but I like to hear the ring instead of a thud or just seeing a puff of dust.  Some times I shoot out in Davenport in the family's wheat fields and rocks can be tough to find at times out there
I can’t hear anything with steel 2/3 mile away with earmuffs on. What am I doing wrong?


Are you shooting a Creedmoor?

I know you can hear 300WM  at a mile when conditions are right. Target size, composition and how its supported makes a difference as well.

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Re: Long range for beginners
« Reply #124 on: April 01, 2018, 09:46:05 AM »
300 grainers.  10” ar500 gong

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Re: Long range for beginners
« Reply #125 on: April 01, 2018, 09:54:22 AM »
Here is the mile target. Its similar to  E40 and hung with chain.

You can definitely hear it at a mile

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Re: Long range for beginners
« Reply #126 on: April 01, 2018, 10:11:41 AM »

I can’t hear anything with steel 2/3 mile away with earmuffs on. What am I doing wrong?

It has a lot to do with how the steel hangs. I can hear my the 168gr bullets from my 284 Striker hit at 1400 yards with an impact velocity of about 1100fps as long as the wind isn't too bad. I've used the T post hangers and they don't ring quite as well. A 300gr bullet at 1200 yards should ring steel loud enough to hear with plugs and muffs no matter how it's hanging.

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Re: Long range for beginners
« Reply #127 on: April 01, 2018, 10:12:10 AM »
Are you using regular ear muffs ?  Maybe my 10" gong is too small to hear ( definitely too small for a mile ! )  Have a 20" square will try next time out. 

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Re: Long range for beginners
« Reply #128 on: April 01, 2018, 10:16:34 AM »
I wear just plugs when shooting the small guns like the 284 and plugs + muffs on the big guns.

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Re: Long range for beginners
« Reply #129 on: April 01, 2018, 10:26:33 AM »
How the target is hung makes a huge difference! Gotta have vibration to get good sound.
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Re: Long range for beginners
« Reply #130 on: April 01, 2018, 10:38:49 AM »
This one hung with rebar sings loud! The 735 hung with chain is pretty good too. Strap not so much
« Last Edit: April 01, 2018, 10:51:51 AM by jasnt »
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Re: Long range for beginners
« Reply #131 on: April 02, 2018, 07:56:54 PM »
That square gong has seen better days. :chuckle:

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Re: Long range for beginners
« Reply #132 on: April 02, 2018, 08:56:29 PM »
That square gong has seen better days. :chuckle:
yeah that poor thing was my 400 yard plate when I was first learning. Spent some time at 500 before moving it to 735. Both sides look like that. I have to keep rotating it because it starts to get bowl shaped. 
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Re: Long range for beginners
« Reply #133 on: April 04, 2018, 04:39:08 PM »
What are you guys using for scope covers?  Currently using a bikini.  Have not found a flip open cap I like yet
« Last Edit: April 04, 2018, 05:54:04 PM by jasnt »
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Re: Long range for beginners
« Reply #134 on: April 04, 2018, 05:06:02 PM »

This is what i got.Vortex Defender,will work on all scopes.
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