Prairie dog @ 337yds with 15-22!!

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Went and shot prairie dogs last weekend and decided to take along the 15-22 to mess around with while the big guns cooled off. Shot 800 rounds through it without a hiccup or cleaning. Longest kill was 337 yds (lasered) with a 4X scope. Definitely not a one shot shot kill but it was fun to walk the shot right into the dog. Anyone else shot their 15-22 at long range?
 
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Ive got a 450yd range at my house. I was shooting the 8"gong at
200yds offhand the other day. its fun to pull the trigger 3 times then listen for the pops on the target. Takes a few shots to get it figured out but after that its all fun. Coolest thing is my targets are against a black backdrop, when the sun is right, and you can see the bullets going down range with just your eyes. (looks like a little gray dot).
Prob going to have to try a tracer or two next time.

Im taking my 15-22 with me to KS this year and will be trying it out on a few Prairie dogs myself, cant wait.
 
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Went and shot prairie dogs last weekend and decided to take along the 15-22 to mess around with while the big guns cooled off. Shot 800 rounds through it without a hiccup or cleaning. Longest kill was 337 yds (lasered) with a 4X scope. Definitely not a one shot shot kill but it was fun to walk the shot right into the dog. Anyone else shot their 15-22 at long range?
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Wow that's a great shot and kill. I've quite a lot of experience shooting a single shot .22 at 266yd, 300yd and 333 yds., which our club shoots as comparable distances on a 11" steel plate with a 4" center swinger. All iron sights. This is comparable target size to big bore (as in 45-70) shooting at 800,900 1000yd targets...I've only recently been shooting the 15-22 at 300 yds, with moderate success, as the trigger pull is not as light as it really needs to be for this type shooting.....but never the less, once you dial in the wind, it can be done with some regularity, and it's a "blast" !!!! Great fun, have at it...best regards Plum
 
I always said I never thought that range was possible. But if you walk your shot it is possible. We hit sporting clays between 200-250 yards against a dirt bank with the sig 522 and 15-22. Just watch where the dust puffs up and walk your shot. gets fun! Now the E-snipers with their one shot kills and 2" groups at 250 yards with a 22 are what kills me.......... :rolleyes:
 
Florida J Frame said:
If you can't make a one shot kill you shouldn't take the shot. Just one man's opinion. We should always be sportsmen first.
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Nice theory, but not always practical. What IS important is to not leave a wounded animal. There's no sin to making follow up shots, if necessary.
 
According to my spreadsheet, about 188" vertical fall from horizontal firing. But since we aim higher than that, if sighted in at at say 100 yards, and based on 3" high sights, the round should hit about 11.5 feet lower than was aimed. Maximum fudging would be required, IMHO.
 
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I have to ask, what is the bullit drop at 337 yards, 5' ?
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I'm not sure for that exact yardage as my chart does'nt read quite that way, but bullet path drop would be about 160" at 335yds. At 300yds it's about 121" This is with a 50 yd zero and MV of 1240fps. More importantly at 300yds, with the factory irons, it takes with a 50yd zero, about 40 clicks up to get to 300 yds. depending on head wind or not, with 1240fps. At 335yds it takes 10-12 more clicks, depending on wind. My factory irons, set as I have them, only alow 52 clicks up, so as you can see I'll be maxed out for 335yds, and if there is much of a headwind, I won't have enough elevation. I can probally gain enough by moving the front post down and using the lowest rear sight setting for a 100 yd zero.....but just have not tried it yet. I think I can gain about 10 more elevation clicks overall as I have some left on the rear sight, the way I have the front post for the 50 yd setting.....As a side not if you are using standard velocity shells, then on average you need to add at least + 4 MOA to each sight setting........bets regards Plum
 
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Florida J Frame said:
If you can't make a one shot kill you shouldn't take the shot. Just one man's opinion. We should always be sportsmen first.
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I agree. My late father, one of the shooting companion in Germany of Gen. George Patton after the armistice in Europe, would not take any shot at game if he thought a single round would not do the job. Even if it was a range he was comfortable with. The one exception I know of was a shot on a bet in 1949 from Army football great Doc Blanchard on the Kenai Peninsula in Alaska. It involved a standing shot from an open boat, using a 30-06 bolt gun with a 4x scope at a golden eagle in flight at an estimated distance of 300 yards. He did it in one clean shot. It was the only time I ever heard about him taking a shot that he would normally pass up, especially on something he did not consider game.
 
So you are saying it is ok to shoot eagles. I do not see this as anything to brag about..
 
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