Pretty decent weather today for shooting - eighty-seven degrees, but overcast skies, so it wasn't blistering hot. Also, I had a 20" box fan set up next to the shooting bench.

The objective - just for grins & giggles - was to try 300 yards with the .45 GM/TC Renegade and edmehlig's 465 grain flat nose conicals.

But first, I wanted to try a few shots at 200 yards using the ballistic chart furnished by ronlaughlin in his comment in my recent post, "Heavy Lead @ 200 Yards". That chart has a "COME UP IN MOA" feature which shows how many MOA to come up from a 100 yard zero for other ranges. It's really neat. (Thanks Ron)

Using the 200 yard "come up' figure of 10.8 MOA from that chart, I adjusted the elevation dial of the Cabala's Powderhorn scope up 11 MOA and took five shots. Here's the target.



That worked reasonably well. So looking at the "Come Up" figure on Ron's chart for 300 yards, I attempted to dial the elevation up and additional 14 MOA, for a total of 25 MOA above the 100 yard zero. But the scope would only go up an additional 11 MOA. So I took one shot at 300 yards with the elevation at that setting.

The shot hit the ground about seven feet in front of the target.

Going with the "by guess and by gosh" principal, I took another shot using the lowest BDC stadia line on the scope. It didn't hit the target, but did hit the backing paper. So I took five more shots using the same hold and got this.





Well darn, I though that was pretty good for this big old bullet coasting along with a 1400 fps muzzle velocity. I was impressed the the bullet is still stable at that distance, and what the heck, under the circumstances a 6-1/4" group ain't all that bad. That's just a tad above 2 MOA.

So this concludes my adventures at 300 yards with this load. I took the Powderhorn 3x10 BDC off the gun and put my little Simmons 4X ProDiamond back on. The longest possible shot on my hunting lease is 175 yards. I'm going to play around with shooting 125, 150, and 175 yards with that 4X and see how it goes.