I have a 12 LRPV in .223 also. Mine is the left port, single shot model. I'm an old hand at shooting but I'm new to long distance shooting. About 300 yards has been my limit up until recently when I joined a local gun club. They have a 600 yard range which I didn't find out was limited to black powder rifles until I had signed up to join. But they do have a 400 yard range which is pretty nice. They have quite a few other things that make the club worthwhile I guess but I still want a chance to shoot on that 600 yard range.
I had no trouble finding the distance with my LRPV at 400 yards. My first trip involved learning the drop and zeroing my scope so it would work well at that distance. I managed to knock a gallon jug around a good bit which seemed pretty good for a first time out. I've only managed to get to the range about 5 times since I bought this gun. The last time out I was nailing a 5" target painted on a rock with no trouble at all. I even managed to hit it dead center a few times. I never dreamed I could progress this fast to be honest. I have to give credit where credit is due though. This rifle is fantastic IMO. It just lays right on the target and no nervous twitch is going to shake this 12 pound plus (with scope) rifle. I don't even have a real good quality scope on it yet. I'm working on that right now.
I thought it would take me a few months to get to this point to be honest. I'm not talking about my great shooting. I'm no great shooter. I'm talking about how easy it is to put the bullets where you want them at 400 yards. And I'm using off the rack ammo BTW. And what's even more weird is that cheaper ammo seems to work better than the match grade ammo I've bought. I don't know how well that will stand up on longer distances (which is my goal) but for now I'm shooting cheap, off the shelf ammo and I'm doing fairly well with it. I do intend to get involved in reloading soon. I should have done it a long time ago but for the past 2 years I've shot rimfire almost exclusively. I stopped shooting my centerfires because ammo was hard to come by and it was getting expensive. So I pretty much sat on what I had and started shooting a rimfire again.
I'm still nowhere near what I need to be in dealing with the wind. I live in a place where there are a lot of days with almost no wind at all. That's also why I rarely get to shoot long distance. I live in hill country. Still I'm eating this stuff up and I want to get out to the range every day. But it's really too far away. I need a closer spot to shoot. Maybe I'll find one sometime soon. If I do I hope it has 1000 yards of open space because that's my ultimate goal - to shoot fairly accurate at 1000 yards. I believe this rifle can get me there too.
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