For those of you that met me at the lone star shoot I brought out a .223 bull BBL and a .308 win Fn SPR. Well I went and did some shooting! I have a few pictures and such and I wanted to give a report because obviously these guns operate well beyond 100 yards and lone star was limited to that distance.
Started out with the .223 with 69grn HPBT Hrndy set to where they just and I mean just fit in the magazine (my .223 is semi auto dpms custom build with er shaw bbl 1/8 twist - 2 stange rra - magpul prs) light crimp. This was with 24.5 grns Varget pwdr and CCI 400 primers. LLC Brass. (this combo makes for a hot load)
Zeroed this gun in at 100 yards with the 69's and went to work. We were shooting at a Silhouette target at 500 yards. We were lucky this day and there was only a lite amount of wind from left to right (full value 5mph) Anyway these bullets performed awesome and I shot one low and left, then I corrected for wind and came up a few moa and was on target. With the .223 I made the majority of hits in the upper left shoulder. I shot a clip of 9 in rapid fire(a bullet per second or less) and made 8 out of 9 shots.
I then switched over to .308. I was shooting hand loaded 168grn sierra hpbt rounds. 44.5 grns 4895 on win primers and win brass. 100 yard zero. 7 Moa up, wind was not an issue. I only shot a few of these rounds as once i found my mark i was on and just was not missing.
.223 bull & .308 FN
Not sure how this shot has me in focus and is also zoomed on the target area. follow the road down and as it curves left there is a tree, then you see another patch of green grass road. This is where the below target was placed. Just over 500 yards. If you squint hard you can actually see a small off colored dot here, this is the target. You cannot tell from the picture be we are shooting over a rather large valley with some 15-20 foot tree's.
Now this picture shows you a better idea of what the naked eye was seeing and more of the true range of where we were shooting.
Notice the .308 shots in the head area, .223 shots on the left shoulder and at the very bottom where it looks like i put two exact .308 rounds - one dug up the dirt the 2nd hit the bottom bar and really bent that angle iron! these were my first two shots and then I adjusted. The bottom shots seem like they would be reversed as far as the damage goes however the gold spray paint had just been sprayed on 30 mins before the shooting took place. The top bullet hits (.308) actually did deeper damage to the steel where the bottom hits were just taking that un-dried gold spray paint off the metal. Also just for reference each Welder Square is exactly 9" x 9" in size. ( this is very convenient because my nightforce has a range finding reticle and they are in 9" and 18" circles and posts)
Started out with the .223 with 69grn HPBT Hrndy set to where they just and I mean just fit in the magazine (my .223 is semi auto dpms custom build with er shaw bbl 1/8 twist - 2 stange rra - magpul prs) light crimp. This was with 24.5 grns Varget pwdr and CCI 400 primers. LLC Brass. (this combo makes for a hot load)
Zeroed this gun in at 100 yards with the 69's and went to work. We were shooting at a Silhouette target at 500 yards. We were lucky this day and there was only a lite amount of wind from left to right (full value 5mph) Anyway these bullets performed awesome and I shot one low and left, then I corrected for wind and came up a few moa and was on target. With the .223 I made the majority of hits in the upper left shoulder. I shot a clip of 9 in rapid fire(a bullet per second or less) and made 8 out of 9 shots.
I then switched over to .308. I was shooting hand loaded 168grn sierra hpbt rounds. 44.5 grns 4895 on win primers and win brass. 100 yard zero. 7 Moa up, wind was not an issue. I only shot a few of these rounds as once i found my mark i was on and just was not missing.
.223 bull & .308 FN
Not sure how this shot has me in focus and is also zoomed on the target area. follow the road down and as it curves left there is a tree, then you see another patch of green grass road. This is where the below target was placed. Just over 500 yards. If you squint hard you can actually see a small off colored dot here, this is the target. You cannot tell from the picture be we are shooting over a rather large valley with some 15-20 foot tree's.
Now this picture shows you a better idea of what the naked eye was seeing and more of the true range of where we were shooting.
Notice the .308 shots in the head area, .223 shots on the left shoulder and at the very bottom where it looks like i put two exact .308 rounds - one dug up the dirt the 2nd hit the bottom bar and really bent that angle iron! these were my first two shots and then I adjusted. The bottom shots seem like they would be reversed as far as the damage goes however the gold spray paint had just been sprayed on 30 mins before the shooting took place. The top bullet hits (.308) actually did deeper damage to the steel where the bottom hits were just taking that un-dried gold spray paint off the metal. Also just for reference each Welder Square is exactly 9" x 9" in size. ( this is very convenient because my nightforce has a range finding reticle and they are in 9" and 18" circles and posts)
. Just depends on your needs. I use that rifle for a long range hunter also.. So it is nice to have a few of my favorite doped out rounds on the gun at all times without them being in the chamber or magazine.. as the trigger is at about a 1lb pull.. It scares me to keep ammo in it unless im in the shooting position about to pull the trigger.
