[DCBryan1]

With light to NO WIND, the heavy barrel and Leupold scope will let the 68 gr. Federal Gold Match .223 sail right down to 600-700m easily...our range on Camp Robinson Arkansas national Guard base has a 1000m range for machine guns and snipers....we use that range b/c it has 15 foot high banks and trees on each side....

With no wind in Pierre, SD (a very very rare event), we hit groundhogs very infrequently at 600m-700m. But it can be done with good equipment, good training, lots of practice, and God on your side holding the wind back for you.

[Vistabees]

Yeah, the wind here in SD sucks pretty bad some days. I want to get out west and do some groundhog whacking, but haven’t had the chance. I do use my mini 14 for deer, it does fine on our cornfed whitetails.