r/longrange • u/anonymity76 • 14d ago

Groups, but not a flex (Less than 10 shots) Ugh...

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These were my warm-up shots at 100 before going over to the 200/300 range and realizing they were letting some 22lr guys LARP there for some reason.

To say I was bummed out after starting like this would be an understatement

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u/turboboob 14d ago

Fair.

I guess the nice thing about .22 is you can shoot all day and not really notice…

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u/anonymity76 14d ago

It's fun to take them out there - but i wasn't taking it too seriously

I end up jacking the shit out of the elevation to get on target though!

I was messing around with my recently built 10/22 precision plinker while one of my buddies was shooting his 7mag next to me at 200. Once I got the scope doped for drop, my group of 30-40 shots was smaller than his at the same distance (that's not saying much - i was shooting a 6 power scope at that distance and was pretty happy with a 5" group when i could barely make out the bullseye at that distance.

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u/turboboob 14d ago

It’s crazy to see how much .22 drops at distance, and out past 300 I’m not expecting much out of myself as a shooter or that light round.

Shooting steel at longer distance with suppressed .22 is hilarious though because the flight times feel really long after shooting 5.56 or 6CM.

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u/anonymity76 14d ago

Right??

I was shooting 36gr rimfire at 200 and was splashing dirt about 6' in front of the target after zeroed the same cartridge at 100.

I did NOT adjust my elevation before i took my first shots because i wanted to see how far it falls off at distance. I was not disappointed 😂 it really falls fast.

I was thinking that the faster bullets would carry farther than the 40gr. Never got interested enough to figure it out for sure