Everyone needs a buddy like Chad. A.J. Stewart, a 34-year-old industrial technician from Mobile, Alabama, had dropped three .22 LR shots onto a steel target at 825 yards—and into a group about the size of a dip can. Now, with a ridiculous 120 mils of elevation doped into his rig, he sent it to 1,000.
But, it wasn’t going well.
The splashes looked to land in front of the 30x30-inch steel square, so Stewart spun up more elevation.
“With .22 LR, at that distance, to get it to travel another 5 yards, you need a whole mil of elevation,” Stewart told me. “That’s how steep the bullet is coming down. One meter of elevation for 5 meters of distance.”
He went to 122, 123, 124, 125. Still, no hits.
“Aw,…