Hey .50 cal. people...

OK enough with the gimmicks! .50 BMG, please :) 60mm shells are way over that!

Thanks for sharing, Rick; is an 'ATRS 50' the rifle in your signature? 2.4 km, eh? Wow, that's really getting out there... Were you up for pushing it further, but there was no room left or what? How much elevation do you dial in for that distance?

p.s. Pics of the targets or the range will do, I agree that pics of the actual shooting is a bit of a pickle...

Keep 'em coming!
 
The furthest shots I have taken are 3500 yards on 3 45 gallon drums stacked 2 down 1 up.
Hits were 2 to 3 out of 5 once I got the elevation dialed in. Needed just over 145 minutes to get there.
The rifle in my signature was 1 of mine, and it in fact was the 1 shot to 3500 with. The SN9 scope was selected as they have 200 plus MOA of elevation.
I sold it to a fellow a couple of years ago. LRC and a couple of others have almost exactly the same rifle but with NF scopes.
The only photos I have of the range out at the farm are 35mm, maybe this spring we will get out and play at stupidly long range again.
 
If videos count? This my 50 at work shooting at 1071 yards, which is still close range

:eek:Bloody awesome!
 
armorman said:
That's awesome Rick. What's the velocity and energy like at 3500 yards?
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Don't know velocity or energy at 3500 as my Exbal only goes to 2000 yards but the bullets still passed through the metal drums.

If someone has a program that goes beyond 2000 yards I would be interested in knowing.
Muzzle velocity with the 750 gr Amax was 2785 fps, scope was 3.0" from center of bore, elevation 3700 ft
 
I'm running a newer version of the NF (exbal) on my laptop and handheld and both go past 2000 yards. Anyways, with that data I get 1003 ft/sec, 1674 ft/lbs energy and a 6.5 second flight time. If you were zeroed at 100 (which is unlikely) you'd need 170 moa. Holy cr*p....you still have more energy at that distance than a 44 mag at the muzzle has.
 
Rick, at Summerland, we were around 2300 YARDS. No one made it out to 2.4km or 2650yds. Still a long fricken ways.

That is something we will try this year.

Redman, as for accuracy, the BMG will put bullets on a large target at that range for sure. I would say 1.5 MOA as a realistic target/group size.

May sound large but that is WayTF out there and alot of weather to shoot through.

We will have MOA sized gongs at this years shoot. We will see if we can hit them on a consistent basis at that range.

Smaller cals can also make the trip and do so with a high degree of accuracy. Don't sell the 6.5's, 7's, 30's and 338's short. They can reach out that far and usually do so with better mechanical accuracy.

Where they are limited is getting bounced around in the wind.

My hopes is that we will be able to get all the common boomers on the ridge and see what happens. We should be getting a nice comparison between the BMG, 408 CT, 338 LM and similar, various 30's, and some 6.5's for sure. Not sure if anyone is bringing a 7mm????

Anyways, we will get some real world shooting and see what happens.

Jerry
 
Quick aside question, what are you guys using to check your targets? hike/driving or do you have camera's set up? That is if you are paper punching

Just curious what the preferred method is.. 2000yds is a long way to go just to look at some holes in a target lol.
 
I'm not trying to hi-jack the thread, but this question is for Rick and that is :
How many minutes of elevation would you use at your farm to take the 50 to the mile as opposed to doing same at Summerland.
I guess what I'm asking is does the elevation difference not to mention other factors require different settings to any noticeable degree ?
Having only stretched out my 50 at Summerland leaves me wondering what it would be like in a flatter and drier ( humidity-wise ) enviroment.
 
ceriksson said:
Quick aside question, what are you guys using to check your targets? hike/driving or do you have camera's set up? That is if you are paper punching

Just curious what the preferred method is.. 2000yds is a long way to go just to look at some holes in a target lol.
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HD handi cam with the zoom dialed up mounted behind a 40 power spotting scope. This is what I used for the video and for LR shooting .
Hopefully if I can afford it this year can get a wireless camera and reciever, so the camera mounts 20 yards infront of the target and we can see the hits on a laptop computer monitor. A buddy of mine has 1 of these rigs and they ROCK
 
Kevan said:
I'm not trying to hi-jack the thread, but this question is for Rick and that is :
How many minutes of elevation would you use at your farm to take the 50 to the mile as opposed to doing same at Summerland.
I guess what I'm asking is does the elevation difference not to mention other factors require different settings to any noticeable degree ?
Having only stretched out my 50 at Summerland leaves me wondering what it would be like in a flatter and drier ( humidity-wise ) enviroment.
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Certainly altitude and humidity make a difference. I was 1.250 moa difference with my current 50 from farm to Summerland.
Now how much is altitude and how much is humidity and temperture would be a math question and beyond my math abilities.
On my current 50 I am zeroed at 300 yards , I need 50 moa to make 1 mile and 192 moa to make 2 miles, the latter of which is theory only as I do not have anywhere near that amount of elevation in my current scope.
 
redman said:
What I mean is what did the grouping look like at that distance (the three oil drums)? What was the pattern? Did they stay in some roughly circular area? Was there stringing of any kind?
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Hard to tell really as I shot over 50 rounds at them before going to look. At that distance you could still hear the hits, just could not se them well even with the spotting scope. On the prairie the winds especially at that type of distance will move a bullet alot from shot to shot, so to say that the top drum was shot all to hell would be an understatement. Amaxs do ugly things when they hit anything substantial.
All of the entry holes were higher than the exits as the bullets were coming down at a pretty steep angle.
Keep in mind that .5 moa at 3500 yards is still 17.5 inchs and a 45 gallon drum is about 24 inches in diameter, so the target is less than 1 moa in size.
 
My wife entered a 50 bmg shoot in reno nevada last year. She had tried 2 of ricks rifle's out at 700 yards, and was hooked[ not that i planned it that way hahaha]. With a borrowed rifle and some wind lessons from the world champ and his wife, i watched in amazement as she pounded 4 inch clay pigeons at 1000 yards !!!! in 30 plus mph winds. on comp. day she shot in winds gusting to over 40 mph. her first 2 sighters were in the x ring- 1 inch apart , we have the spotting disc as a souvenier signed by the target puller. She went on to shoot 10-10-10-9 for a 8 inch group. the rifle rest broke on her 5 th shot opening her group to 18 inch's.

We have our own custom built 50 from rick and have shot many 5 inch 5 shot groups and 3 inch 3 shot groups at 1000 yards. These are shot prone from a clean cold bore.

Mr/Mrs 1000 yards
 
1000 yards said:
My wife entered a 50 bmg shoot in reno nevada last year. She had tried 2 of ricks rifle's out at 700 yards, and was hooked[ not that i planned it that way hahaha]. With a borrowed rifle and some wind lessons from the world champ and his wife, i watched in amazement as she pounded 4 inch clay pigeons at 1000 yards !!!! in 30 plus mph winds. on comp. day she shot in winds gusting to over 40 mph. her first 2 sighters were in the x ring- 1 inch apart , we have the spotting disc as a souvenier signed by the target puller. She went on to shoot 10-10-10-9 for a 8 inch group. the rifle rest broke on her 5 th shot opening her group to 18 inch's.

We have our own custom built 50 from rick and have shot many 5 inch 5 shot groups and 3 inch 3 shot groups at 1000 yards. These are shot prone from a clean cold bore.

Mr/Mrs 1000 yards
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I am expecting GREAT things from you 2 at Reno this year (no pressure) but it would certainly be nice to take some prizes north of the 49th:D

Where is the bucket photo?? You need to post it!!
Or would you like me to do it for you?
 
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