3,600 yard shot

[platoonDaddy]

Friend asked me the following:

Can you tell what type of scope he is using. I did a little calc. and the drop of a 350 gr. .375 with .805 G1 BC is about 5,500 inches at 3,000 yd. (could not find a calculator that went above 3,000 yd). MOA adjustment would be 174 MOA. With a 40 MOA ramp, the scope would need 134 MOA of adjustment. My NightForce has + and - 100 MOA. I don't think I have seen scopes with greater than 120 MOA either side of zero. If he has a MilDot or MOA comp reticle, then he might get another 10 or 12 MOA. Add another 600 yd. and MOA adjustment must be above 230. If this shot is for real, I bet someone spent a lot of time and ammo getting on target before letting the fat guy shoot.

[SilverBullet432]

I just watched the video again. That ranch is not in west texas....... Its nearly in the hill country lmao.

[SilverBullet432]

Friend asked me the following:

Can you tell what type of scope he is using. I did a little calc. and the drop of a 350 gr. .375 with .805 G1 BC is about 5,500 inches at 3,000 yd. (could not find a calculator that went above 3,000 yd). MOA adjustment would be 174 MOA. With a 40 MOA ramp, the scope would need 134 MOA of adjustment. My NightForce has + and - 100 MOA. I don't think I have seen scopes with greater than 120 MOA either side of zero. If he has a MilDot or MOA comp reticle, then he might get another 10 or 12 MOA. Add another 600 yd. and MOA adjustment must be above 230. If this shot is for real, I bet someone spent a lot of time and ammo getting on target before letting the fat guy shoot.

They are using a 150 MOA rail.

[SteyrAUG]

Nope.
To get longer/higher trajectory the barrel needs to point upward.

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Jack Leuba

Hopefully that is my "duh" moment for 2015.

Every now and then I have to make front and rear sights with my hands and move them in front of me to relearn very basic things.

[Failure2Stop]

Hopefully that is my "duh" moment for 2015.

Every now and then I have to make front and rear sights with my hands and move them in front of me to relearn very basic things.

If that's the worst offense I think we'll be in pretty good shape.

[MBtech]

Just curious, what kind of range/distance would one start to consider canting a scope instead of mounting level with the bore? I'm sure there are a lot of different variables to take into account.

[cbx]

Even with the zoom ratio ofthat optic, the target would be very small at that distance......damn.

I don't care how good the rifle, the shooter or how many warm ups he had. Holy shit. That's all that can be said.

[rjacobs]

Last time I ventured out to 1000 with my 308 I put more rounds into the damn 2x2 wood uprights than I did the 10x12 plate I had hanging. My buddy said something when we went down range to get the target like "I thought I heard you hitting wood quite a bit" my only response was "shut up".

3600 is DAMN impressive no matter what, especially on a 1 MOA target.

[TAZ]

Just curious, what kind of range/distance would one start to consider canting a scope instead of mounting level with the bore? I'm sure there are a lot of different variables to take into account.

Depends a lot on the type of round/loading you want to shoot and max range you expect to shoot to. Also on the kind of glass you can afford Want to shoot 308 past 1000 and not be on the ragged edge of a scopes adjustment range you might want an canted base. Every bolt gun I've owned had a 20moa base. I always figured it would be better to have and not need than to one day have a chance at some long shot and bottom out my score.

[SteyrAUG]

If that's the worst offense I think we'll be in pretty good shape.

The best part about the entire thing is I will never need a purpose built rifle designed to shoot anywhere near that distance and as a result I will never need to offset my scope to compensate for such distances so it's something that's ok for me to screw up.

Suffice to say I will never be in danger of putting my offset scope rail on my 2 mile rifle on backwards. That means I only need to remember which way is the front of the Eotech and I'll be good to go.