Can You Hit a Watch Face at 200 Yards — With Iron Sights?
When two or more guys get together at a shooting range, sooner or later, a challenge will ensue. It’s a guy thing — guys are competitive. We’ve seen it on varmint hunting trips too: “Bet I can hit that P-dog at 700 yards.” “No you can’t.” “Yes I can.” “Wanna Bet?”
You know how it goes. There are challenges for pride, bragging rights, and often some money is involved, or perhaps a six-pack.
In this GunVenture video, three shooters take on the challenge of hitting the face of a watch at 200 yards using an M1A rifle with standard iron sights. The rules were exact — you had to hit the FACE of the watch, not just the strap. And the bullet had to penetrate the center of the watch — no splash shots or ricochets allowed. Not an easy shot — we figure that watch face is about 1.5″ in diameter or roughly 0.75 MOA at 200 yards. They were shooting factory .308 Win ammo with 155gr bullets — a Palma load.
GunVenture Video — 200 Yard Watch Challenge with Iron Sights M1A
One of the shooters, range owner Justin Watts, rose brilliantly to the challenge. You can see Justin’s remarkable shot at 3:20 time mark. Holding slightly for wind, he drilled the watch face dead center, obliterating it, but leaving most of the band intact. At 4:25 the video reveals that the whole center of the watch (the works) was blown out, leaving nothing but a rubber doughnut. Mighty Impressive.
After making the impressive shot, Justin explained to his buddies what they did wrong. Among other things they did not compensate for the wind. Justin also observed that the first shooter sent his shot right because of the M1A’s heavy trigger pull: “Probably what happened is the trigger pull is so heavy [he] pulled it to the right. Most of the time when you have a right-handed shooter and a heavy trigger like that, it’s going to pull you off to the right.”
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Ok, let’s see you hit bucket with iron sights at 876 yards
Tape the watch to a skinny stick at 200 yards and try that.
Do it off hand, no sling, with a 11 lb. M1A 10 times @ 200, that would make this old High Power shooter take notice.
Will, come off it.
NONE of us, National Record holders or not, are shooting a 1/2 MOA target (the watch face, in the middle) 50% of the time at 200 yards, and I am including the optics guys as well.
The 13X Service Rifle record (on a 1.4 MOA X-Ring) shows the ironclad truth of my statement.
I can off my powerchair/ATV, I think. Never tried it but up forthe challenge.
I love mine. I have a Gen 4 mount for the scope. Anyone here anything about them?
Thanks
Old guy
I’ve know many through the years that cleaned the 200 yd. slow fire target in 10 shots with both M1’s & M1A’s. Shooting from prone, supported like this “stunt”, an unknown number of times to make the shot for the camera is just that, a stunt and unfortunately getting to be the norm. True marksmanship discipline is going by the wayside for showmanship, glamour and “likes”
Let’s face it. The shooter made a great center hit on a 14×16 inch white steel plate. The watch was just in the impact area. YouTube marksmanship.
Nice to know that instead of supporting traditional competitive shooting events (pistol, rifle, shotgun) that as a hobby we support people who get their jollies by plinking at watches. Nice to know that some see this as a proper representation of shooting in 2018.
I competed yesterday at the Palmyra Sportsman Invitational 3-P / Air Rifle Match yesterday where shooters from all over the country compete each January. Both the 50′ smallbore and 10M air rifle ranges use electronic targets and it is one of the best indoor matches in the US. Would be nice to see an article on this match and how it promotes the shooting sports for all.
I have hit a golf tee at 200yds, prone with sling, iron sights. The tee was marking the previous shot in the X ring of the MR52 target. No video though. Guess it doesn’t count.
Yes – I can hit a watch face at 200 yrds, but it needs to be the large watch that a gang banger might wear. It also has to be on the wrist of the gang banger.