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No, not THAT 1 mile club...
I joined the 1 Mile Club today! I took Mike Sexton's basic Precision Rifle class today and had an absolute blast! Great class.
I have never taken a gun training class of any sort (outside of the Navy) and saw this one pop up earlier in the week. I know Mike has a good rep as a trainer, and I had an open day, so I decided to jump in.
Classroom time of about 2.5 hours covered the basics (it's an intro class after all), but I learned quite a bit about weather meters, bag selection, bi-pod setups, etc. that I hadn't considered before.
We hit the range right at noon and immediately started banging steel. The host range was Clinton House Plantation in Clinton, SC. They have a KD range with a ton of 1-3MOA steel from 300-1,000 yards. We got a bunch of practice calling the wind and watching the trace as we each (5 students) took turns walking out to the 1,000 line. One of the most important things I learned was how to 'true' my load in Strelok. After I trued at 500 yards, I didn't miss the 3MOA targets all the way out to 1,000. My first shots ever at 1,000 went 3/3.
Once we had that dialed in, we pulled back to the 1MOA targets and really got good at watching trace and practicing the fundamentals. Challenging, but I was able to make consistent hits on the 1MOA stuff out to distance.
Normally, that range only offers 1,000, but Mike had set up a 24x48 fixed with a Magneto Flasher out to 1,760 yards. I took me 9 shots, but I ended up being the only one to hit it! To say I was pumped is an understatement. To be fair, all of the credit goes to Mark Link, co-instructor, for calling the windage correction.
Rifle:
Savage FCP-SR 6.5 Creedmoor - bone stock barrel, trigger, action
Omega suppressor
MDT HS3 chassis
Burris XTR II 5-25 with SCR Mil reticle
20MOA base
200yd zero
Hand loaded Hornady 140gr ELD-M over 41.2gr RL-17 and a base-to0ogive of 1.9"
For the 1 mile shot, I had to add 24.7 MIL to the 200yd zero and hold 2MIL windage. I ran out of adjustment on the reticle and had to hold 8Mil.
That's Mark in the picture.
I joined the 1 Mile Club today! I took Mike Sexton's basic Precision Rifle class today and had an absolute blast! Great class.
I have never taken a gun training class of any sort (outside of the Navy) and saw this one pop up earlier in the week. I know Mike has a good rep as a trainer, and I had an open day, so I decided to jump in.
Classroom time of about 2.5 hours covered the basics (it's an intro class after all), but I learned quite a bit about weather meters, bag selection, bi-pod setups, etc. that I hadn't considered before.
We hit the range right at noon and immediately started banging steel. The host range was Clinton House Plantation in Clinton, SC. They have a KD range with a ton of 1-3MOA steel from 300-1,000 yards. We got a bunch of practice calling the wind and watching the trace as we each (5 students) took turns walking out to the 1,000 line. One of the most important things I learned was how to 'true' my load in Strelok. After I trued at 500 yards, I didn't miss the 3MOA targets all the way out to 1,000. My first shots ever at 1,000 went 3/3.
Once we had that dialed in, we pulled back to the 1MOA targets and really got good at watching trace and practicing the fundamentals. Challenging, but I was able to make consistent hits on the 1MOA stuff out to distance.
Normally, that range only offers 1,000, but Mike had set up a 24x48 fixed with a Magneto Flasher out to 1,760 yards. I took me 9 shots, but I ended up being the only one to hit it! To say I was pumped is an understatement. To be fair, all of the credit goes to Mark Link, co-instructor, for calling the windage correction.
Rifle:
Savage FCP-SR 6.5 Creedmoor - bone stock barrel, trigger, action
Omega suppressor
MDT HS3 chassis
Burris XTR II 5-25 with SCR Mil reticle
20MOA base
200yd zero
Hand loaded Hornady 140gr ELD-M over 41.2gr RL-17 and a base-to0ogive of 1.9"
For the 1 mile shot, I had to add 24.7 MIL to the 200yd zero and hold 2MIL windage. I ran out of adjustment on the reticle and had to hold 8Mil.
That's Mark in the picture.
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