HORNADY’S NEW A-TIP TECH

“Dial 14.8 mils elevation and hold a full 4 mils left for wind.”

So came the instruction from Kyle Lynch, a fellow gun writer and my partner for some shooter/ spotter exercises we were participating in at the Leupold Optics Academy.

I spun the elevation turret of the scope and backed off just a bit on the magnification to remove some of the mirage, holding on the 4-mil hash in the horizontal bar, and broke the trigger on the Ruger Precision rifle. It took a couple of seconds or so for the bullet to get to the steel, but the splatter at the center of the orange dot of the 1,500-yard steel was extremely gratifying, considering the wind, which was gusting to 20 mph on the Oregon high desert. Living in the Northeast, I don’t have a lot of opportunity to take things out very far, so when I do get a chance, I jump at it.

This particular event saw Leupold pair with Hornady, which has recently announced the release