Good morning Mossberg owners, & first a mea culpa.
The .308 Ruger is not my longest rifle.
That is certainly the stainless Savage varminter which is .223 caliber.
I've been shooting 75 grain Hornady match-grade boatails over Varget Powder in various amounts. I don't recall exactly but it is the maximum recommended charge in my Lee manual.
Anyhow I did not shoot a varminter today but I did get my new .308 + scope out to the range and I did some function testing. I shot the dingers but it was too windy to put up a paper Target. Because of that I didn't touch this knobs on the scope and all I did was estimate the powers of my home loads and the estimated bullet drop at 400 yards for each formula.
In this photo the first big berm is at 60 yards, then 110 yards, then a small berm off to the right at 185, a small berm in the middle at 225, a dugout slightly to the left at 300 yards and another dugout in the far middle at about 400.
Here is the .308 which is evidently short enough to put in my lever gun case if I push the upholstery around.
I shot that today and the 45 ACP.
I was very happy with that new Zeiss scope although I think it does have a bit of chromatic aberration. I haven't played with all the adjustments yet.
I played with it at 6x, 16x, and 24x and it was pretty amazing as far as having a super sharp reticle and a nice focus.
Basically I screwed this business together carefully in the garage and did not bore sight it at all.
If you zoom the photograph above there is a red silhouette dinger made of armor plate at 380+ yds. It would be the size of a small man's chest.
The amazing thing was that I hit that Dinger on the second shot, after simply putting one in the dirt and seeing where it went.
And it was very obvious at just 16x how far I was going to have to lob my homemade bullets to hit that dinger.
I tried several formulas and it was anywhere from 6 feet of drop to about 18 in. None of them seemed anywhere close to hot enough to concern me in this rifle. But then I was working with fairly soft charges, all the way up to a mid-power charge.
I haven't approached any hot charges or fat bullets yet.
I did try the scope at 24 power but it doesn't seem necessary for what I was doing, which was theoretical man hunting at 400 yards.
Theoretical squirrel hunting at 400 yards will require an adjustment I am sure.
Of course we still talking about paper here as I do not hunt animals anymore except for fish.
The .308 Ruger is not my longest rifle.
That is certainly the stainless Savage varminter which is .223 caliber.
I've been shooting 75 grain Hornady match-grade boatails over Varget Powder in various amounts. I don't recall exactly but it is the maximum recommended charge in my Lee manual.
Anyhow I did not shoot a varminter today but I did get my new .308 + scope out to the range and I did some function testing. I shot the dingers but it was too windy to put up a paper Target. Because of that I didn't touch this knobs on the scope and all I did was estimate the powers of my home loads and the estimated bullet drop at 400 yards for each formula.
In this photo the first big berm is at 60 yards, then 110 yards, then a small berm off to the right at 185, a small berm in the middle at 225, a dugout slightly to the left at 300 yards and another dugout in the far middle at about 400.
Here is the .308 which is evidently short enough to put in my lever gun case if I push the upholstery around.
I shot that today and the 45 ACP.
I was very happy with that new Zeiss scope although I think it does have a bit of chromatic aberration. I haven't played with all the adjustments yet.
I played with it at 6x, 16x, and 24x and it was pretty amazing as far as having a super sharp reticle and a nice focus.
Basically I screwed this business together carefully in the garage and did not bore sight it at all.
If you zoom the photograph above there is a red silhouette dinger made of armor plate at 380+ yds. It would be the size of a small man's chest.
The amazing thing was that I hit that Dinger on the second shot, after simply putting one in the dirt and seeing where it went.
And it was very obvious at just 16x how far I was going to have to lob my homemade bullets to hit that dinger.
I tried several formulas and it was anywhere from 6 feet of drop to about 18 in. None of them seemed anywhere close to hot enough to concern me in this rifle. But then I was working with fairly soft charges, all the way up to a mid-power charge.
I haven't approached any hot charges or fat bullets yet.
I did try the scope at 24 power but it doesn't seem necessary for what I was doing, which was theoretical man hunting at 400 yards.
Theoretical squirrel hunting at 400 yards will require an adjustment I am sure.
Of course we still talking about paper here as I do not hunt animals anymore except for fish.