I'm getting sick of the 1000 yard goal

Gunneegoogoo said:
It helps, no question, but the fancy stuff is the icing on the cake. I've spent way more than 10k and still get taught a lesson regularly. Lotsa folks shoot just as good or better than me with gear that cost 1/4 what I paid.

I think I'm being honest, but maybe I just suck!!!!
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Yeah... I guess that makes at least 2 of us...

It can be hard to get enough practice, I started f-class 4yrs ago, and only manage to shoot maybe 400-500rounds a year, and haven't made time to shoot .22lr matches in 2yrs, which are great practice, maybe next year...
 
SND said:
Yeah... I guess that makes at least 2 of us...

It can be hard to get enough practice, I started f-class 4yrs ago, and only manage to shoot maybe 400-500rounds a year, and haven't made time to shoot .22lr matches in 2yrs, which are great practice, maybe next year...
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Hmmm, that's what I shot this week. :)
 
Was out the other day, 5 rifles - so really only 5 true cold bore shots - i still suck - 2/5 cold bore 1000yd hits on a 10" gong, and one of the two hits was a fluke as i knew i pulled the shot - 2nd shot with same rifle, same dope, good let-off, was a clean miss and then had to walk it in a bit.
practise practise practise...the challenge lives on!
 
Before this summer, I had never shot past 475 yards (as far as my range goes). In the first match I attended, the BC Champs, I shot to 600m for the first time. I was hooked. So I signed up for a PRS type match down in Washington tat tok place this past weekend. It was to go out to 800 yards. Having never shot that far, I met a buddy of mine out in Kamloops prior to check my dope/ballistic app (Ballistics AE) out past 475. Everything was dead on with my 2 shots at 875 yards being within 2-3 inches of each other and maybe 2 inches off POA.

All that to say that shooting long range isn't ridiculously hard but only if you've done the requisite leg work first: You've put in solid time at the range shooting mid range stuff (I go to the range between 1 and 3 times a week) have good, solid DOPE (which in itself requires lots of accurately logged data) that you know well, have a rifle capable of MOA or better and that you understand the accuracy parameters of your system and have a decent grasp on the wind. All that (which could take years to get to) and you should be putting rounds on target from the prone. Then try that from an improvised position :p Speaking of, next match goes out to 1100 which I'm thinking might be like pissing in the wind with my .308... time for a 6.5, haha
 
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