Ringing Steel at 1500 Yards — With a Little Help from AB Kestrel
It’s not easy to place a first shot on target at 1500 yards. You must measure the wind speed with precision, know your exact muzzle velocity, and have a sophisticated ballistics solver. In this short video from Ryansrangereport.com, the shooter manages a first-round hit on a steel silhouette at 1500 yards. He used a Kestrel 4500 NV Weather Meter with Applied Ballistics software to figure out the trajectory for his 6.5 Creedmoor rounds.
The Kestrel recorded a wind velocity, and the internal software calculated a solution of 17 Mils elevation (that’s 928 inches of drop) with 2.5 Mils windage. “Bang” — the shooter sends it, and 2.6 seconds later “Clang” he had a hit (flight time was 2.6 seconds). Bryan Litz observes: “This is the science of accuracy (in the form of an Applied Ballistics Kestrel) being put to good use at 1500 yards”.
Later in the video (1:05-1:15) the shooter places three rounds on steel at 1000 yards in just 10 seconds. The three shots all fall within 10″ or so — pretty impressive for rapid fire. The shooter reports: “[In my 6.5 Creedmoor] I’m using a 136gr Lapua Scenar L. This bullet has impressed me. It screams out of my barrel at 2940 fps and holds on all the way out to 1,500 yards.”
The rifle was built by Aaron Roberts of Roberts Precision Rifles (RPRifles.com). Chambered for the 6.5 Creedmoor, it features a Leupold Mark VI 3-18x44mm scope.
Roberts Precision Rifles
19515 Wied Rd. Suite D
Spring, Texas 77388
Phone: 281-651-5593
Email: rprifles @ gmail.com
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This reminds me of what was probably the luckiest shot of my career. In April 2010 the inaugural Coonabarabran 1500 yard shoot was held (in central New South Wales, Australia). Due to a rain interruption, I had no opportunity to practice at shorter ranges, so the first sighter at 1500 yards was my first shot at the location. The targets were 8 ft wide by 6ft high with rings normally used for 800 and 900 yards. Fortunately there was a very light cross-wind. I squeezed off the sighter and the target went down, which was promising, then it stayed down for a long time, which was worrying, then it came back up, with a bulls-eye! That meant it was somewhere between 6 and 12 inches from the middle. Calibre was a 6.5-284 using Berger 140 VLDs at just over 3000 fps. Trajectory was calculated using an Excel spreadsheet and wind adjustment was based very approximately on some distant flags and a couple of tall gum trees!
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It take 2.6 seconds from muzzle to target, but wouldn’t it take the sound of the steel ring 4 seconds to get back?
4500 feet / 1125 (speed of sound in ft/s) = 4 +2.6
That’s even more impressive.