I snuck out to my shooting spot this morning with my Crown. I had some testing objectives with my 380mm barrel, but finished early in the day so I threw on the 700mm barrel to have some fun. The wind was blowing 15-25mph (pretty standard for this location), but I got the itch to do some long range shooting since the sun was still overhead and not in my eyes.
I ran out of paper targets, and there were a couple of warm 2L bottles of orange Fanta in the back seat of my sedan that were leftover from a BBQ yesterday evening. I grabbed one of them and set it up as far out as I was comfortable with, knowing that I'd have to navigate the brush to retrieve it afterwards.
Anyways, I got back to my shooting position and ranged the bottle - 309y. I loaded up a mag of 30gr VKs and did some quick tuning over my LabRadar to get the power up. My GW was only partially full when I drove out, so I set the velocity to 950fps to get about a full mag's worth of shots on the ~210bar fill. I consulted Strelok for the elevation (55MOA lol), and then I took a few shots in an attempt to kick up some dirt near the target to determine my rough wind hold.
On the 6th shot at the bottle, I see orange soda spewing out of both sides as if the bottle was shot from the side!!! I sat there for a moment happy about the hit and started to try to piece together how in the hell the trajectory came at it with such a wide hook. The orientation of the bottle was the same as it was while I shot at it. I trekked back over to the target to inspect the damage. Sure enough, the slug penetrated clean through nearly center mass. I took a photo of the bottle from the point of the exit hole - aiming my camera at my shooting area (you can make out my sedan next to where I was shooting from in the distance). The final trajectory angle of the bullet looked to be AT LEAST 30 degrees! Is that not crazy or what?!
I ran out of paper targets, and there were a couple of warm 2L bottles of orange Fanta in the back seat of my sedan that were leftover from a BBQ yesterday evening. I grabbed one of them and set it up as far out as I was comfortable with, knowing that I'd have to navigate the brush to retrieve it afterwards.
Anyways, I got back to my shooting position and ranged the bottle - 309y. I loaded up a mag of 30gr VKs and did some quick tuning over my LabRadar to get the power up. My GW was only partially full when I drove out, so I set the velocity to 950fps to get about a full mag's worth of shots on the ~210bar fill. I consulted Strelok for the elevation (55MOA lol), and then I took a few shots in an attempt to kick up some dirt near the target to determine my rough wind hold.
On the 6th shot at the bottle, I see orange soda spewing out of both sides as if the bottle was shot from the side!!! I sat there for a moment happy about the hit and started to try to piece together how in the hell the trajectory came at it with such a wide hook. The orientation of the bottle was the same as it was while I shot at it. I trekked back over to the target to inspect the damage. Sure enough, the slug penetrated clean through nearly center mass. I took a photo of the bottle from the point of the exit hole - aiming my camera at my shooting area (you can make out my sedan next to where I was shooting from in the distance). The final trajectory angle of the bullet looked to be AT LEAST 30 degrees! Is that not crazy or what?!
If I do that, I want to set it up from the side of the target to try and capture the POA better.