I went to the range yesterday night with a friend. I took my Savage .308WIN out there. The last time I shot it I should have been zeroed at 300 yards… I had been shooting at 600 yards over a year ago with that zero. I must have taken it once more thereafter because it was perfectly zeroed at 100 yards much to my surprise. I took 3 shots at the 300 yard target and didn’t see a thing. I decided to paper it at 100 yards (after shooting 200 yards and watching it hit paper 3″ low) when I shot a perfect MOA group at the top right of the bullseye. Whoops! So I dialed in at 200 yards and it was there but a bit to the right. I brought it left and put a nice MOA group slightly to the left of the bullseye though one bullet went dead center. Sweet! I dialed in for 300 yards and I had a CD as my bullseye. All three punched right through it though I couldn’t spot it in my scope. It formed a slight triangle and was within 3″ so barely MOA. Wow! I guess I still have my touch. These were my 175 grain handloads.
I switched to some Federal I bought last year. They were 150 grain if memory serves me right. I didn’t have the ballistics on hand (I made a chart for my loads) but needless to say they ended up shooting higher than expected. My 100 yard zero shot a good 2.5″ high. I believe they’ll have more velocity and shoot flatter at the shorter ranges so that sounds about right. I made a note of it in case I should want to switch in the future.
It may be capable of sub-MOA groups but I probably don’t have the skill necessary. I let my eye fatigue (the low light did not help) and I did jerk one shot really far off. I think I shot 22 rounds total. All I know is I need to reload back to that one recipe and maybe tweak from there.
