what would you shoot?

[pelago]

just had opportunity to shoot my 03A4 at 800 yards using 175 grain smk

good not be happier, only got out of ten ring three times out of fifteen rounds at 800 yards on palma target

however had some issues at 900 yards and have sent scope to parsons scope repair services for complete overhaul and re furbish,

but damn rifle is 69 years old and shoots a better than 10" group with 2.5 alaskan scope

[pmclaine]

Sorry to go off topic but Parsons is working again?

[pelago]

gawd, i sure hope so, contacted them due to recommendations from Lyman them selves.. talked to them on phone and sent my 1940's vintage lyman alaskan for full rebuild
and they have a up and running web page

[pmclaine]

I think the old man (meant with respect) passed. I had heard the son was going to keep it going. I tried contacting them awhile ago and got no reply. Good to hear they are running again.

[MJ1]

Just curious, as the longest I have shot was 200 yrds. But at 600 yrds, doesn't the cross hairs or post completely cover a target? I have several "T" Enfields and those sight posts are pretty wide at the tip, Ray

I'm not sure I get way you would cover the target with the post?

[rayg]

Ok, another way to put it. Is the tip of the post on a Enfield "T" scope or the cross hairs of a M73b1 scope "fine" enough for pin point shooting at a bulleye target at 600 yds or are they too wide and cover too much of the target to get a good pin point sight picture/aim at a 600 yrd bullseye target to get close groups?

[pelago]

Using the Alaskan Lyman vintage scope at 600 yards i could make out the spotter disk on the ten ring, i was able to 'cover' the spotter disk with the cross hairs, pull the shot and hit the disk

was able to do that four times, this was with a 3" spotter disk so i would imagine that the cross hairs cover 1/2 moa at 600 yards, yes, no??

[MJ1]

Never had the problem are you sure your using it correctly?

[rayg]

Nice rifles. As mentioned, I've only shot to 200 yds and was curious as to the scopes at 600.
Here's mine,

[rayg]

Two more
This photo is too small but I couldn't delete it.

[rayg]

more

Two of these are shown in the above grouping but the middle one is an addition and is all matching including the scope, mount, chest and metal scope case.The bottom one is a Trials sniper, Ray

[PhillipM]

Ray,

If you do make it to a 600 yard range with one of those rifles be sure you have enough elevation adjustment. It would be bad if you had to aim at some point over the berm to hit the target, I saw it happen Saturday.

[MJ1]

Just curious, as the longest I have shot was 200 yrds. But at 600 yrds, doesn't the cross hairs or post completely cover a target? I have several "T" Enfields and those sight posts are pretty wide at the tip, Ray

I still don't understand the question. When I sight on say a soda can at 400 yards I just spin up 400 on my range drum and put the tip of the pointer on the can. Maybe you scope is not set up as it should be. Easy enough to to.

[rayg]

Seems to me you did understand the question because you answered my curious post in that the tip doesn't cover the target, Ray

[MJ1]

If you say so,,,