10-21-2017, 05:28 PM
Keef Wrote:Thanks for the suggestions!
I spent my half day at work getting ready. Got a pallet and a couple 4x6 pieces of fresh cardboard to attach to it. I plan to start at 50yrds and work out to as far as I can. Should give me a good understanding of my drop along the way. Once I get farther out I plan to set up the shoot and see in the middle with steel plate below it. I'm pretty comfortable shooting deer at 150-250yrds(7.62x39). Looking forward to seeing what I can do with the 6.5G at longer distances.
Keef:
Save yourself some time. Put the paper at 300. Come up five minutes from your 100 yard zero and shoot. You will stay on the paper and if you are using the large Shoot N See, you will put a hole in it.
Once you are sure of your 300 zero, put the target at 500. Come up about 9 minutes and shoot. I will guarantee you a hit on the paper and probably the Shoot N See.
Once you are confident in your zero at 500, you can put the paper out to 800. You will have to come up around 16 minutes to get from 500 to 800 with most Grendel cartridges.
At 800 yards, I would probably opt for a plain sheet of white or very light colored paper without any shoot n see. If your background is very dark, you have a better chance of seeing a hole in a clean piece of light colored paper
at 500 and beyond than seeing the lime green hole in a Shoot N See.
As for doping winds with a Grendel, I liken it to doping winds for a M-14 firing the old 168 grain Match King. To 600 yards hold 1/2 minute per MPH of full value wind. From 600 to 1K, hold one minute per MPH of full value wind.
No need to get anal about the wind. I bet you know within a mph or two what 5, 10, 15, and 20 mph winds feel like and does in your fields. Trust yourself, figure out the direction quickly, hold off and shoot.
Sure, there are some nuances to the process and you can use more holds to get a bullet on the steel but this is the basic plan and although it is tedious, it works the first time.
Have fun and tell us how things went.
LR55