My range too

by Bob Hatfield , Saturday, October 11, 2014, 13:21 (3637 days ago) @ Creeker
edited by Bob Hatfield, Saturday, October 11, 2014, 13:26

10-4 on those crazies

Sometimes I take one of the crazies type of guns but mine is plain. I use a 10 round magpul mag in my AR-15 A1 to plink at the gongs. My A-1 model with the aperture sights will hit a sideways water filled coleman fuel can with a dead on hold at 300 yards (I have a witness). My spotter asked how can you even see it? I told him "I know where it is at even if I cant see it cause I put it there". Seriously though I have a long range aperture that sort of makes the front sight a little crispier.

Now for the load Barnes TSX 55 grain flat base over 26.5 grains of IMR 4895 (Nato pressure). I've killed a farm deer at close to 200 yards with a bang flop from a shorter AR with a 16 inch barrel with this load but at 300 yards even with a 20 inch barrel the velocity must have slowed down a lot as the load poked three holes in the water filled Coleman fuel without upsetting the can. The first exit hole was about the size of a dime which drained the water and the other two holes were about 22 caliber.

For what its worth compared with the AR and it poking holes a 7mm Remington Magnum loaded with a Hornady 139 grain spire point will absolutely destroy that water filled can at 300 yards with an exit hole about the size of a cantaloupe.

Bob