First let me start out and say that I am NOT an expert shooter, but I have a pretty good grasp on it. I have shot with a few of you here and also have a personal long range course I built 435-1200 yds and a mile gong. Lance can attest to it as he has shot it. I make my own ammo and had Eric (AXIS WORKS) build my 300 win mag out of his house before he blew up. I decided this year to step my game up again. I suppressed my rifle, change my ammo, and even picked up a Gunwerks BR2. I have been shooting the past month just lights out up by my house. I have never been more confident in my shooting game. I also built a 6.5 creedmore which is also linked to the BR2 and shooting lights out.
We get drawn for down south and opening morning, i glass up a beast to me.. (bigger than the big buck i will share below). I ranged him at 400ish and BOOM!!!. 4-6 ft high...WTF.. Rack another round BOOM 4 ft high. HOLY CHIT!!! I'm now freaking out at the biggest deer of my life. 400 yds to me is a chip shot. My son then grabs the creedmore and says hurry use this. With the suppressor the deer is just slowly walking away. He stops, turns, BOOM...Even the 6.5 is shooting crazy high. Like 3-5 ft high. Deer then goes away. Everything I did all year, was worth CHIT when it came down to it. My kids and I are 17 for 17 with my 300 on deer 400-800 yds.
Now I'm so bummed and confused. I'm just lost. How is it 3 days earlier my rifles are shooting absolutely perfect to 900 yds. at all angles. Now just trash. I head back to camp. Here is a list of things i did.
1. Checked zero at camp and both rifles still good
2. Both rifles have zero stop and were at zero
3. Ammo is what I made and is solid
4. 3 days earlier shooting with both rifles and BR2 worked perfect
5. Checked BR2 yardage to other range finders and reading perfect
6. I then went out to shoot at some rocks at all different ranges and was way off. several feet high and many different ranges. In order to make this work for my hunt I had to turn up the velocity in the br2 up 400fps. I went from 3050 fps to 3450 and it was close. My round is not shooting 3450. Thats just what I put it to hit targets for this hunt. Thats how we smoked the deer below. Was a complete chit show and I still have no idea what happened.
Was the br2 taking the new weather elements into effect, but being really drastic? To shoot 6 ft high at 400 yds I would have to have been at like 16 moa. I was at like 4.
If anyone has had an issue like this before please talk to me. I have a rifle bull tag coming up and am flat out lost. This happened to both my rifles. Not one.