Gun Digest Book of Long-Range Shooting by Lp Brezny

Author:Lp Brezny
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: ebook, book
Publisher: F+W Media
Published: 2011-03-07T21:00:00+00:00

My guide and friend Randy Routier spotting shots with his buddy during the long-range tests on the Harding County Badlands.

Author shooting the Savage Model 10 LE at long-range targets over the expansive Badlands of northwestern South Dakota.This was a great “safe zone” to use when sending bullets well out beyond normal range limits.

Like the 25-06, 300 Win Mag, 7mm Mag and others, this rifle in 308 Win is a great crossover piece of equipment. One day it’s used on long-range dogs, and the next, speed goats on open prairie grass. If I had my way this same rifle in the Model 10 LE would be chambered in 223 Rem and 22-250 Rem, as well as 223 WSSM. I think Savage would sell a pile of them in short order. The Model 10 rifle may be cop-shop sniper material, but it is all balance and accuracy, which is always required of a good varmint/target rifle.

One major element that surfaced from the work that was done with the 308 Win was my choice in glass sights. While I could have mounted several other scopes on the Savage sniper rifle, I had elected to use the Leupold VX-L 4.5-14x50mm. But the problem here is that this and scopes like it are set up as big game sighting systems and not ultra long-range ones. This scope, as outstanding as it was, and I mean that to the bone, didn’t retain enough hash marks, mildots or whatever to get the job done. long-range glass is just that, “ long-range,” and it requires several elements to become a first-class distance rig.

First of all, it needs to have that above-mentioned reticle system installed. All of the elevation and windage needs to be usable right to the bottom of the scope. Secondly, external 1/8-moa elevation knobs need to be employed so that extended and quick adjustments can be made for elevation. Third, the best system of all for this work is a beveled scope base that retains adjustments, like the military-style Leatherwood M-1200 Tactical. Leatherwood uses a system that zeros each range graduation to 1200 meters when high-BC 308 Win or 50 BMG rounds are used for ultra long-range sniper or target work. This is a no-math 6x24x50 scope set up very much like the Sweet 17 ranging scope systems reviewed in Chapter 3, but on a much larger scale.

When I was testing the new VX-L Leupold glass on the Savage Model 10 LE I did give “in scope gap” ranging a try, based on the distance between the hash marks on the Leupold glass. In the evenings close to my camp, large mule deer, and I mean record-book animals that were massive velvet 5x5s, started to move toward the tops and out of the canyon. I was “gapping” the animals in the hash marks on the Leupold glass and found that with the Boon & Crockett reticle set at 16X, a large buck mule deer at 400 yards fits the spacing from the crosshair center to the top of the first hash mark.

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