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Hop
03-29-13, 21:55
Thought you guys might like to see some video from last weekend. I attended an Appleseed "intro to long range" KD shoot in Southern IN. I'm having a blast at these KD (known distance) shoots and have learned a lot about my equipment and how to sling up, hit the ground and put rounds on a target quickly.

I've shot out to 400 yards and scored Rifleman twice but that was with a 20" AR and heavy 75 gr PRVI. This time I switched guns to a M4C style gun using off the shelf cheap Walmart XM855.

Gun specs:
Noveske N4 upper/lower with a Colt 14.5" barrel, Battlecomp 1.5 pinned & welded.
Geisele SDE trigger
Spikes buffer
Magpull furniture
Trijicon TA31ECOS ACOG w/ BDC reticle calibrated in Meters using XM855 out of 14.5" barel.
Federal XM855 5.56mm Walmart ammo

We started out verifying zero at 25 yards, not something I normally do with this gun. That's what the RMR sight is for. I couldn't group for crap at this range for some reason. 2-4" terrible groups. This had me worried if I had made a bad choice bringing this gun.

Off to the 100 yard firing line for sighters then the 1st stage of an AQT. We did this all the way back to 500 yards making good sighter hits, recording come ups then shooting for score on the AQT. I only had to adjust the turrets once at 200 yards. My barrel, load, BDC combo was working really well. I scored Rifleman again putting 37 / 40 in the black. :cool:

I wanted more time at 500 but they had a surprise for us... steel targets set out at various known distances between 100-400 yards.

Enough with this aar, on to video. I shoot and post my videos in the raw "old school" style. enjoy!

200 yd AQT (I'm on the left)
http://youtu.be/NPpmpBv-gJo

300 yd AQT
http://youtu.be/4HB_Pk0vztg

400 yd sighters
http://youtu.be/Egq1GC5zwOU

500 yd demo with tracers
http://youtu.be/VEFLacOgIlk

Bonus time tracers on steel at 400 yds
http://youtu.be/slg0rL6QvAo

And here's what a rifleman can do. A buddy who had worked the pit all day came out for some fun. He has never shot my gun before and was clanging steel all over the field.
http://youtu.be/3AdtR62lDSQ

10MMGary
03-30-13, 01:42
Nicely done, thanks for sharing. It took me a while to be able to spot the tracers on this old Sony Vaio lap top(it has nothing to do with my old ass eyes).Is it just me or are most 5.56 tracers not in "trace /ignited/full burn" mode until 50-60 yards or more?

Hop
03-30-13, 08:17
These were old mil-surp tracers dated ~1980. Most of them still worked but they did take ~60 yards to light up. The newer ones a friend had were twice as easy to spot. The thing I wasn't expecting was how long it took the sound to get back to me @ 400.