200y 5 shot group

[thomasair]

Curiosity got the best of me and I decided to put a target out at 200y and see how my Thomas Slug gun would do.

I have never shot at this distance or anything over 100y with this gun til today. This group took me exactly 7 shots from setup to shoot. I turned the elevation all the way to the stop and held the crosshairs in the middle of the target for the first shot. It hit dirt in front of the target. I then put the bottom dot on the reticle in the middle of the paper and just caught the bottom of the target. Next, I put the bottom of the reticle bar on the top of the target and fired the remaining 5 shots. It’s 1.045 MOA.... plus a fairly nice 3 shot cluster at .2 MOA.

Mike

 

[stoti]

That’s pretty darn crazy! Shooting at 100yds is hard enough, once you get to 165, 185, 200yds things just get way, way more difficult. A near MOA group at 200yds is spectacular! And that 3 shot cluster...Insanely good!

Very nice, Stoti

 

[qball]

That indeed is insanely good!!! Especially with wind!!

 

[Guest]

Nice one! 

 

[Centercut]

Nice!!! Can’t get much better than that!

 

[thomasair]

Thanks. I’ll take credit for building the gun...but a monkey could have shot the group. I just held in one spot. I couldn’t even see the holes at 200y with a 40x Leupold through the mirage. 

Mike

 

[Brownie2]

What caliber?

 

[thomasair]

40gr 22 caliber 

 

[Scotchmo]

You are right that you can't see what the groups are like until you walk out there. First test at 200m with my slug gun a couple weeks ago. Not 1 moa but hope to get there. Shot a 6 shot sight in target. Walked out to get some measurements. And then a 10 shot target with additional sight adjustment. Distance from bullseye, mean = 0.91 moa, and SD = 0.34 moa. Goal is to get a mean of 0.5 moa.

A 4 mph wind variation could account for the entire horizontal dispersion. I was using my Labradar and those 10 shots had a 7fps ES with weight sorted slugs. That fps spread alone can account for 1.7" of the 2.5" total vertical dispersion. I need a perfectly calm day and keep the velocity spread down. I probably got lucky with the 7fps spread as it's usually a little more.

 

[CoyoteGod]

I was shooting at squirrels at 180y with 8-12 variable winds, 90 degrees from my location with 30 CAL hybrids. I tried about 3 times. Never got one, but I was close. Judging wind at the moment you pull the trigger is truly one hell of a skill.

 

[thomasair]

Yes...the fact that I can’t see where anything is landing is enough for me to likely never do this much...or evan again. Plus...I would need more angle on my scope rail so I could actually click to poi. The current poi is out of scope view.

Mike

 

[Solo1]

Can you just imagine if that little gust of wind didn’t blow those 2 shots off?! Would have been something really exceptional! Pretty damn good shooting as it is!!! Well done!!!