What your furthest pistol shot?

My personal best is Fig 11 at 100m. Now get your helmets on because its time for a war story (Peacekeeping). In 1989 the RCDs where doing a rotation in Cyprus for UNIFCYP on what I recall was Op Snowgoose 56 (will that island ever get its krap together?). Anyways to kill time and get out of Nicosia there was a pistol competition laid on amoung all the various contingents. The team OPI was one Sgt Maj Inghram who I thought was just plugged into the role to get him out of the BBC. For a pistol range we drove out to a old quarry that was in SwedeCon and practiced with the Brownings. Towards the end of the practice, and this is the part that had I not been there and seen this I would not believe it SM Ingham says "hey you see that oil drum" at the other side of a huge pond at what must be 300+Metres, "watch this" says the SSM. He then fired three rounds at the drum and then on the fourth he connects 9mm on drum. It was something to see as it was Bang...........bullet traveling to drum, then................Thunk when it struck. After those first (3) ranging rounds every round connected afterwards so that put paid to just getting lucky. Another thing was the drum was at a different plane then being lower by about 25M. Again had I not been there to see his shooting I would have a hard time believing it as 1. the distance was insane (300+M) 2. he was just shooting that tired old warhorse the BHP with issue ammo and 3. the target was at a negative elevation.
The observations I made was the old SSM had the gun at about 45degree angle (maybe not 45 but it was pretty damn steep and he was saying the thing is to keep the front the drum/target and lower the rear of the pistol your not going to need that rear sight. Being dry and arid watching the fall of shoot aided corrections as a pronounced puff of dust helped getting on target if it was wet or raining then getting on would be much harder and more then three rds to do so.
 
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Not sure how accurate this is and I've never really looked much at pistol trajectories but it looks like a 20-25 yard zero is about 12 inches low at 100yards.
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NVShooter said:
All you folks hitting 200 yards or so...how high above the target were you aiming...if you recall. Just curious... Great shooting btw!!
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In competitive shooting, unless you want to finish at the bottom, you set your sights for every range.
Big pistol silhouette shooting has targets at 50, 75, 100, 150 and 200 metres. In practice sessions you first set the sights for the chicken at 50 metres and mark the setting in your note book. Then you sight in for 75, maybe only requiring one click up for the Ruger 44 magnum and mark that in your note book. You do that for every range, up to the rams at 200 metres.
In competition you start at 50 metres, with your sights so set, and shoot five shots. You then look at your notes to see what adjustment is needed for the 75 metre shoot and set the sight. You do this on every range, up to the 200. There is a time limit on the whole thing, so you don't have all day.
It's been a long time since I competed and it may have been that I used the same sight setting at 50 and 75, just holding a little different. I know that during my active time at it I changed the load on the 44 from 22 grains of Hercules 2400, down to 20 grains, and the only sight change needed was at 200 metres, where the lighter load required one more click up.
 
Still alive said:
I would start at 2 ft above the target and adjust from there. It's all trial and error! Like I said, get a spotter with good binocs. When shooting at that range, you can't see your target as your gun covers it so you need someone to tell you where you've hit. With the gun covering your target and recovering from the recoil, it's really hard to see where the bullet hits on your own.
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Well thanks!!! Will try that next time in the range :p
 
100 meters using someone else ruger wheelgun at the Greenwood range, I hit a 12 inch metal plate 4 out of 6 times...

Put my 1911 and glock to shame that day....
 
I received a Ruger MKI 1 with the long tapered bull and factory muzzle brake in return for driving tractor one summer, grade 8 or 9 IIRC. Local LEO was who I drove tractor for. Shot 1000's of rounds through it....on the ranch, lol .Another place and another time...
We'd shoot at a pillow sized rock across the coulee. How far? Don't know, this is from a time when lazers were on Battlestar Galactica remember? Maybe 200-250 yds . Shot lots of gophers too, but no really memorable shots there.
But after 3-4 rds you could put the rounds onto that rock no problem.
 
NVShooter said:
All you folks hitting 200 yards or so...how high above the target were you aiming...if you recall. Just curious... Great shooting btw!!
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200m
12" gong
S&W M&P9, 115g

1-2 shots per magazine connected, the rest were just several inches off target. Did it at the range just for fun. A few shots at the gong while waiting for cease fire to put up my own targets.

I aimed about 3-4 feet above the gong.
 
100 yds, pop can with a 7 1/2" S&W 41.22lr.
At the range with my buddy (in his 60's) and his son. we wanted to make some noise but my buddy just likes to sit at the bench with a .22 and plink away.
I set him up with my S&W model 41 and a box of ammo and let him play while we went to fire some larger noisier things.
Came back a while later and he is making pretty consistent hits on a coke can he found, set at 100 yds.
I was pretty impressed and had to try it myself. Took a few rounds to get the distance right but after that I could hit it fairly regular.
Seated and rested.
 
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