I went into my nearby shooty supply store yesterday for some ammo and some target dots, preparing for a morning in the desert. Picked up a brick of .22 and went over to the target aisle to grab some 3″ dots (1 moa at 300yds). Hmmm… not a dot in sight (what pun?).
I thought about pilfering some of the wonderful 3×5 sale price signs to use as targets, but I’m not a young whippersnapper any more, so that option was a nonstarter. I did ask the young man at the counter though.
“Did you find everything you need grandpa sir?”
“Almost. You guys are out of target dots.”
He opened the drawer under his register and pulled out a roll of 1/2″ green price dots.
“I can give you a bunch of these, if you like?”
“Too small” says I.
“That’s all I need” says Young Gun. Can you say ‘testosterone dump’ boys and girls?
I held my hand out to him. The tremor this morning is a half notch higher than a coffee buzz (not bad, I think to myself).
“Oh!” he says, “does it do that all the time?”
“Sometimes it’s worse. Enjoy those small dots while you can. Thirty years from now you might need the big ones too.”
I didn’t tell him I use the 3″ circles for the .308, or that prone, at 300 yards with a bipod and a sandbag, I can do a passable imitation of a testosterone dump myself.
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June 14th, 2008 at 9:46 am
That’s the last 3″ dot I had. I moved the target out to 300 yards, took two shots to find the proper up adjustment on my scope and another to adjust for the 10 or so mph wind that had come up, then I fired these two. The load info is 168gr Sierra Match King over 43.5gr 4064, in new Winchester brass with CCI primers. I think I like the 175gr SMK better, but I have a bunch of these 168s so I’m going to shoot them and write down all the info as I go.
The brick of .22? That’s for shooting 25, 50, and 100yds in between .308 rounds. No, I’m not interested in shooting the ground squirrels.
Except for the wind, it was a great day.