Hit the desert yesterday with two friends. We took turns shooting the SPR. Started at 900 meters (984 yards). This was really hard to see misses through my crappy spotting scope, and there were plenty of misses. It took 15 shots to get on target, then we were at the mercy of the wind gods. I hit 2 in a row once, but was missing about 80-90%. The plate is 12'' circle with 8'' circle on top. Wind was light at full value but always changing which made things tough. Once we felt bad enough we moved up to 760m (831yds). This was more fun and we were missing much less. It was challenging, but not as hopeless feeling as shooting at 900. Once we burned through the "primo" TMK reloads, we moved up to 595m (650yards) and shot some Nosler CC reloads. This was pretty easy shooting, shooting rapidly and getting rapid hits.
Taken with handheld cell phone, pic is terrible but you can see what 16x at distance looks like. This was at 760m(831yds). The target is seen low and right of the crosshairs.
One hit landed on an edge of the plate and spun it / flopped it, causing the lower plate to sag by an inch due to the paracord slipping off of it's spot behind the plate. Normally the paracord is totally hidden from the front view. It is a 1/4'' plate so it moves a lot when hit.
ETA: Big thanks again to Waveslayer for recommending this poly material to hang the target with instead of heavy chains. We shot it once or twice, and it just left a perfectly nice hole, no cracks or anything. It could be swiss cheese and still hold the plate up.
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