I have - between a couple of neighbour's places - a one-mile stretch of hay field in our narrow valley that has the added bonus of being utterly infested with gophers. For those that have never shot that sort of distance over flat ground, the mirage is brutal, although it is the single best tool in the world for learning long distance shooting. Mirage does not lie. For those that are extremely skeptical of a 6BR's ability to hit gophers at 1K, I'd be happy to let you try yourself!
When the hay comes off, the fields can be used to park vehicles on and shoot off the bed of your truck. I also have a large flat-deck on which you can shoot prone or use a shooting bench. The 1000M point just happens to be next to a road separating the fields, so it is often fun to starts at 1000 to get yourself warmed up, and then move to a mile, where a 20 minute base is essential and bullets literally appear to drop out of space in your scope ( You have plenty of time to re-orient your scope on the target to prepare to watch the hit.)
Popping at cans, gongs, milk jugs, shooting clays is a riot! If you have a cool overcast day, it is a gift where using 42x on your scope is possible.
This is all private property and holding an informal shoot will be no problem. I just need to try and fit it in with my schedule. We're talking mid-August if we want to still hit gophers. Any later and they're down for the year.
Stay tuned.
