Long range pistol shooting

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I'm sure you guys have seen hickok45's videos on youtube. He hits gongs with his pistols that look to be way out there...I'm just wondering how he aims at them. Does he just line up his gun and then raises it to compensate for drop?
 
Short answer is yes.

Lots and lots and lots of practice... a pistol is definitely going to need some compensation for distances like what I think you are talking about.


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reread, I have no idea how one would "aim" at those distances... the sight post would be a few sizes larger than the target I would think, not to mention as stated above, you'd be way above the target to compensate for the drop. I'm thinking it's all "feel". :)
 
Elmer Keith used to line up the sights, then drop the rear, so you coudl still see the target. You could establish the hold and paint lines on your front sight, too.
 
Sixguns by Elmer Keith has a chapter on long range shooting.

Elmer Keith had gold inlay range bars in the front sight of some of his guns. These indicated the correct hold over at a given range when the one of the horizontal bars was flush with the top of the rear sight.
 
I routinely shoot 50m and have done 100m and some 200m shooting with my pistols and .22 rifle and have found it best to just hold the appropriate amount over the target. I tried using graduated sights but didn’t work for me. In reality it is not much harder than hitting a 20m target just that the target appears smaller at distance.
 
200 yards/meters is NOTHING to the old cavalry types- 400 was more their style- i've done 250 with my old army with my brother walking me on the target with a pair of binocs- and yes. i had my front sight painted with the holy 3 bars in white
 
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