Author Topic: Cool range pic (Read 765 times)

VOR · « **on:** March 04, 2007, 02:40:11 PM »

I snapped this shot today at the range I frequent. I think it came out pretty neat! The targets are Iron Maidens and from nearest to farthest are 275m, 300m, 400m and under the chevron 600m. The red and white square to the far right is the safetly limit for the range.

VERY black and VERY evil.

Russian · « **Reply #1 on:** March 04, 2007, 03:08:38 PM »

:drool: Nice toy!

Is that ROMAK? ....I wish I could buy that here....I only can get a scope here

scope

VOR · « **Reply #2 on:** March 04, 2007, 03:20:47 PM »

Yes, it's a Romak with an 8x POSP. My scope is actually from Belarus.
Are you in Cali or something? If so, sorry.

Edit: I see that you are in Cali. Yes, this rifle is certainly verboten there. Sorry, man.

Ball · « **Reply #3 on:** March 04, 2007, 04:28:19 PM »

Very nice Vor

airspro · « **Reply #4 on:** March 04, 2007, 04:55:20 PM »

Cool pic though the scope . Never would have thought you could do that hehe .

VOR · « **Reply #5 on:** March 04, 2007, 05:16:09 PM »

It kinda surprised me that it came out. I figured the camera would auto-focus on something and the reticle wouldn't be visible. My camera has a digital viewing window, so I moved the lens around until I saw daylight thru the scope and snapped the shot.

Here's another one looking at a 200m target:

texasmom · « **Reply #6 on:** March 04, 2007, 05:18:54 PM »

Don't photoshop Nilsen into this one.

Ball · « **Reply #7 on:** March 05, 2007, 02:11:31 AM »

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Originally posted by texasmom
Don't photoshop Nilsen into this one.

If only i didnt have to go to work soon.

Russian · « **Reply #8 on:** March 05, 2007, 03:07:52 PM »

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Originally posted by VOR
Yes, it's a Romak with an 8x POSP. My scope is actually from Belarus.
Are you in Cali or something? If so, sorry.

Edit: I see that you are in Cali. Yes, this rifle is certainly verboten there. Sorry, man.

I don't remember what mine is. I think it is PSO 4x24 with laser and special light made also in Belarus. How well does it shoot at max range?

Edit: It is ПОСП 6x24

VOR · « **Reply #9 on:** March 05, 2007, 07:10:09 PM »

Russian, to tell you the truth it is easy to outpace a Romak or Dragunov with a conventional bolt-action rifle. 600m is as far as my range goes and as far as I've fired and that's probably also the outer limit of my ability to hit a target that size reliably. I fire 7N1 surplus ammo made in 1997 currently. If I fire run of the mill surplus ammo thru it, the accuracy suffers alot and it begins to behave more like what it really is: a big, fat AK.

There are some ergonomic problems with it such as the scope being mounted high over the action and slightly offset to the left. If I zero the scope for a 100m target and fire at say a 1000m meter target without compensating for the offset, my round could strike up to 10 inches to the left of the chevron. Throw some wind into the equation and it gets more confusing.

Within the rifle's intended role as a designated marksman weapon, it does just fine but I wouldn't want to compete with it against a guy firing a well tuned bolt action rifle. Scoring rapid, successive hit between 250m and 400m is actually pretty easy. At 600m with reasonably cooperative wind I can hit the targets about 4 out of 5 shots from a sandbagged bench, but I can't pick which part of the target I want the shot to go to. A personal rule of thumb with this piece is to keep my target zone within the confines of the aiming chevron. As you can see from the pic, at 600 the aiming chevron is hanging slightly past the edges of the silhouette.

LePaul · « **Reply #10 on:** March 05, 2007, 07:32:01 PM »

"Look out, Ned, its coming right for ya!"

Sweet rifle.

DiabloTX · « **Reply #11 on:** March 05, 2007, 07:32:13 PM »

That is just too damn cool, Vor. I am VERY surprised that shot came out the way it did. The pics not bad either,

!

I wish I had more time to take up shooting on a regular basis. Every once in a blue moon I get to go plink with my Henry Golden Boty .22 lever action. Hey, it's better than nothing.

VOR · « **Reply #12 on:** March 05, 2007, 08:01:33 PM »

Thanks guys. I took alot of snapshots before I figured out how to balance the rifle on the bags while balancing the camera and getting the lenses the proper distance apart to actually see thru the optics.

This range has only been recently opened to schmuks like me and it's the first time I've been able to fire some of my rifles and really stretch their legs out. I've learned alot about long range shooting thru trial and error and with the help of some of the old salty hands on the firing line.

Tune in next week for a WW2 episode: K-98k vs. M1. I think we all know who will come out ahead in that one, but it'll be fun proving it anyway.

DiabloTX · « **Reply #13 on:** March 05, 2007, 08:11:47 PM »

What will the shooting parameters be and will they be shot scoped and without scopes?

VOR · « **Reply #14 on:** March 05, 2007, 08:21:30 PM »

It won't exactly be scientific, but it will be a perfectly good waste of some old ammo out in the garage. I'll be thrilled to get a hit past 300m with my Mauser but I expect hits possibly to 500 with the M1. Both will be unscoped and firing nasty, dirty inaccurate ammo. I'd take the M-44 carbine as well, but I'm not such a masochist anymore. In fact, if it's raining I'm staying home.