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No more. Never again. That is a BAD judgment call right there, brother...

I just did that very thing last weekend, breaking in a new gun. Shifted a "stolen scope" from another rifle just to shoot it. Zero'd the scope in 12 rounds at 100, confirmed with 10 rounds on steel at 100, and got first-round hits at 500 immediately. We took that target out there, and just planted it - distance wasn't a concern, at the time. Get it OUT a little bit. Got back to the firing line, sighted on it through the mil-dot scope... Damn, isn't that thing an even ONE MIL WIDE right now. Sweet, 500 yards, exactly. That target is 18" wide, so when it turned up 1 mil wide in my scope, I knew exactly how far out it was. That's the magic "mil-math" right there. That's all from training, over time. It's all here, in this link: That comes down to 2 years on this specific cartridge, knowing what it does, how it acts, how it drops - and shooting it through 4 other different guns of the same caliber at distances to 845 yards before. Even the 12.5" gun get's to 845 yards on this load. Nothing is impossible. It just takes time, practice, and patience.

We taught exactly that at the Fall Shoot last year. Matt.Cross and I do it all the time, and we'regetting more into it atthis Spring Shoot coming up, to further refine this year's coming Fall Shoot. Shiit, we had whiteboards out, markers... Here's the chaos, from beginning to end: Here are some great videos from Ryan Cleckner - his experience is self-explanatory, if you research who his is: https://www.nssf.org/tag/ryan-cleckner/ He has his own website, with all that info and more, here: https://gununiversity.com/ This video series right here is invaluable - but it will lead you down that rabbit hole. You will lose weekends watching this, if this is something you're serious about: All this info is well and good - but if you don't get out and do it, it's worthless. Shooting distance has taken me 30+ years to get good at, on the gun. It's not easy, and there is not shortcut for it. Taking classes helps tremendously, and shortcuts the time involved in learning techniques, but it takes serious time-on-gun to get good at it - and it takes alot of ammo. I short-cutted my learning curve with 20+ years in the Army, doing a LOT of cool shiit that most people pay ALOT of money to go do, as an "adrenalin sport." It is what it is. Come to a Fall Shoot, and we'll short-cut that learning curve.

OH SHIIT!!!

What barrel manufacturer on that one? Looks like 20" rifle gas, is that correct?

I'd never expect nothing less of you... Dad... You know you left a part of you somewhere - and I'm him... Scary, ain't it, Mack?

WHAT WOMAN HAS FEET GROWING OUT OF HER PU$$Y?!!? THERE'S A WHOLE PACK OF THEM WITH THAT PROBLEM!!! ?

I see it now - that's terrifying...

DAMN!

I'll drive on rims instead of tying those plates to my back and walking them in...

Yes indeed he DID! After snatching his ass outta that 4-foot deep ditch last Fall Shoot!...

WTF?! WTF IS THAT?!

That was early 2010, brother. You did - at the time, they were the ONLY ones selling the 16" rifle gas barrels. Nobody else wanted any of that, back then, because they couldn't figure it out. Clint McKee figured it out, though.

This weekend when I grill, I'll go buy something special... and I'm gonna measure it with digital vernier calipers AND a micrometer...

That's VERY cool! I need to set something like that up for the two cams I have. Right on, Dion!

You ain't messing around here, Brother Jeff!!!

That's cool, and I hope that's the case - doesn't matter what a company does, as long as they are clear on it, and it's not that in-between crap. However, most of this has really started turning up in the last year, all over the place, with all kinds of manufacturers. (cough,cough, WC, too... cough,cough)... I'd like to see if that's still the case here.

Finished up - this sounds sweet!

No way, brother - I want pics of this thing!...

The rarest of the rare... Once you hear the real story on this, you will cringe, man...

You brought this on yourself... Dirk never used a tape measure...

Same exact terrain I rip through all the time to put targets in, and recover them. Never had a flat before, but this time got the right rear first, then the right front at the end of the day, picking up the target at 500. The Super Nissan has never had a problem - but it got it's ass whooped this last trip.

If you do a 100 yard zero on it, you're still right on at 200, or damn close. You're 1.7 mils of drop at 300 yards. 3.7 mils of drop at 500 yards. All from a 16" barrel. If you're running a 5.56 (heavy) BDC reticle, or a .308 Win reticle, zero it to 0.75" high at 100, and the reticle should line up out to 500 with that.