800 yard running shot
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I have never seen that vid but it isn't as impressive as the Nitro express safari vids. I would never attempt a shot like that but I can't see why ppl don't think it's possible. Hell if a sniper can pop a guy @ 2000m. why can't a hunter drop a deer @ 500. I shoot my rifles @ 200-500 yds. Last year I flattened a buck @ 427yds, bang-flop with the 3006. I aimed just over his back and did a perfect heart/lung shot. Very humane way to go if you ask me,he didn't know I was there let alone what hit him.
- Location
- Somewhere on the Hudson Bay Coast
adog said:I have never seen that vid but it isn't as impressive as the Nitro express safari vids. I would never attempt a shot like that but I can't see why ppl don't think it's possible. Hell if a sniper can pop a guy @ 2000m. why can't a hunter drop a deer @ 500. I shoot my rifles @ 200-500 yds. Last year I flattened a buck @ 427yds, bang-flop with the 3006. I aimed just over his back and did a perfect heart/lung shot. Very humane way to go if you ask me,he didn't know I was there let alone what hit him.
IMHO 500 yards is a lot different than 800. I don't think the average hunter has any idea how to adjust a rifle sight for that range, or understand that most rounds will drop off the target with the sight properly set, but the range misjudged by as little as 25 yards. I would go as far as saying that most hunters run into difficulty once there is more than 12" of bullet drop to contend with. I suppose it's possible that these guys could actually be long range shooting enthusiasts, but there appears to be a lot more luck than skill displayed in the video. The 2000-meter sniper shot to which you refer was not made with your average hunting rifle, or by your average marksman.
- Location
- Ft. Mac. Alberta
Looks like a break action, so I am guessing Contender or Encore.michaelsabre said:What kind of gun is that?
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In regards to long range shots, or what people THINK are long range shots, the funniest experience I had was when I worked at a gun store several years ago. Some wiseacre comes in with a Browning autoloading rifle in .300 Win mag and asks me to mount and boresight a scope on it for him. He then hands me this enormous Burris 36X benchrest scope.
I ask him why on earth he would want to mount this scope on this gun. He then promptly explains that he regularly shoots moose with this rifle at 1,000 yards and wants a more powerful scope so he can, "see the moose better" as last time out he had to fire TWO rounds at it before it went down.
There was about 5 minutes of stunned silence on my part, and I tried valliantly not to laugh. I then explained to him that this scope is specifically designed for bench-rest shooting from a solid table and rifle rest, and that your heartbeat alone caused the scope to waver all over the place. Besides the fact that the rifle itself would hardly be capable of that level of accuracy over that distance, and no one in their right mind would really want to shoot game at such extended range.
He insisted that he did it all the time, and that he had shot 3 moose at that range already. Now, if you really want to test a person to see if they know what they are talking about, ask these simple questions:
[1] What range is your rifle zeroed at? His answer - I don't know, whatever the guy who mounted the scope last time boresighted it at. Hmmm. That's good for 100 yards. On paper. Maybe.
[2] How much do you hold over at your 1000 yard shot? His answer - what is holdover? I just aim and shoot dead on. Hmmm again.
My conclusion was that his 1000 yard moose shots were actually more along the line of 100 yard shots, if that, not to mention this clown didn't even have the basic intelligence to sight in his damn gun in the first place; boresighting is NOT sighting in! (You would be surprised at the number of so-called hunters that do that.)
In the end, I just mounted the damn thing and sent him on his merry way. He probably ended up shooting some tree stump across the field, or whatever brown object happened to appear in his crosshairs. Yup, long range shooting at it's finest! Carlos Hathcock would be green with envy....
I ask him why on earth he would want to mount this scope on this gun. He then promptly explains that he regularly shoots moose with this rifle at 1,000 yards and wants a more powerful scope so he can, "see the moose better" as last time out he had to fire TWO rounds at it before it went down.
There was about 5 minutes of stunned silence on my part, and I tried valliantly not to laugh. I then explained to him that this scope is specifically designed for bench-rest shooting from a solid table and rifle rest, and that your heartbeat alone caused the scope to waver all over the place. Besides the fact that the rifle itself would hardly be capable of that level of accuracy over that distance, and no one in their right mind would really want to shoot game at such extended range.
He insisted that he did it all the time, and that he had shot 3 moose at that range already. Now, if you really want to test a person to see if they know what they are talking about, ask these simple questions:
[1] What range is your rifle zeroed at? His answer - I don't know, whatever the guy who mounted the scope last time boresighted it at. Hmmm. That's good for 100 yards. On paper. Maybe.
[2] How much do you hold over at your 1000 yard shot? His answer - what is holdover? I just aim and shoot dead on. Hmmm again.
My conclusion was that his 1000 yard moose shots were actually more along the line of 100 yard shots, if that, not to mention this clown didn't even have the basic intelligence to sight in his damn gun in the first place; boresighting is NOT sighting in! (You would be surprised at the number of so-called hunters that do that.)
In the end, I just mounted the damn thing and sent him on his merry way. He probably ended up shooting some tree stump across the field, or whatever brown object happened to appear in his crosshairs. Yup, long range shooting at it's finest! Carlos Hathcock would be green with envy....
jordansdad
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- Location
- Smiths Falls, On
Even at 800 feet that wood be a hell of a shot.....
A shot I'd have to see to believe!
A shot I'd have to see to believe!
I posted my story last year about the coyote James and I got with my 30-06. The coyote was 670m running away when I shot him and killed him. We measured the distance with the truck trip odometer.
I got so many questions about "how high did you have to hold over", "what grain bullet" etc etc.,....like I said it was a "get out of town " shot that connected. Pure luck. It happens. It's a fluke. I paid $355 to get the coyotes head mounted just because it was a miracle ..... sorta my tribute to the unluckiest 'yote in Alberta that day.
I've seen a guy shoot an elk at 600+ with a 7mm STW and one antelope at 500+ (again we clocked it with the truck).........I dont condone that type of stunt, but I dont stand in the fella's way either. Those animals were standing still .
Ask me if I could hit another coyote at that distance running and I would tell ya that I could not afford the shells it would take if the coyote ran back and forth at that distance all day long......
I got so many questions about "how high did you have to hold over", "what grain bullet" etc etc.,....like I said it was a "get out of town " shot that connected. Pure luck. It happens. It's a fluke. I paid $355 to get the coyotes head mounted just because it was a miracle ..... sorta my tribute to the unluckiest 'yote in Alberta that day.
I've seen a guy shoot an elk at 600+ with a 7mm STW and one antelope at 500+ (again we clocked it with the truck).........I dont condone that type of stunt, but I dont stand in the fella's way either. Those animals were standing still .
Ask me if I could hit another coyote at that distance running and I would tell ya that I could not afford the shells it would take if the coyote ran back and forth at that distance all day long......
