Long Range Shooting
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Long Range Shooting
Just wondering who here is into long range shooting. What kind of rifles you shoot and what cartridge. I have been shooting rifles a longtime, its an addiction. Me and a friend of mine are going in the morning to bang steel @ 700 yards. The barrels are going to be smokin in the morning, but its fun.
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I use my 7mm Ultra for the long distances and I love my lil .17 for the 100 yard range and under.
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308 for up to 600 yards, a McBros 50 BMG bolt gun for longer work. also do my loads on both 50 is a 750 A Max at 2600 FPS
so the name bill 50 cal
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Wow, 700 yards is a pretty good distance! What cartridge you shooting and with what rifle? I'm guessing you work up your own loads and chrono'd them to get trajectory tables? Whatever cartridge you're using you're gonna have some pretty good holdover at that range. Then you have windage to calculate...
My big game hunting cartridge is also my longest range cartridge: .270 Winchester. My rifle is a Remington 700 BDL in stainless steel, with a HS Precision stock, glass bedded floating barrel, custom trigger, and Leupold VXIII 4-12AOx40 scope. I sight in for 0" drop at 200yds which puts me at +1.5" at 100yds. The .270 Winchester is a pretty flat shooting cartridge but at 400yds I'm already at about a 19" holdover and by 500yds it's at about a 40" holdover. I've never even tried 700yds so I'm not sure what my holdover would be, but my barrel would be pointed so high it's look like I was duck hunting with a rifle!
I work up my own loads and weigh them. My best recipe so far includes Remington brass, Winchester LR primers, 130gr Hornady SST, and Alliant Reloader 19 powder. I can't remember off-hand how many grains of powder I've worked up in my current loads but I think it's about 52 grains. I'm chrono-ing at just over 3200fps (V) and MPBR right about 300yds. Anyway, it's more than enough to take about any game in North America which is good enough for me.
I like to play with my AR15 and SU16, but those little .223 cartridges aren't good for much more than coyote or jackrabbits and only under 200yds, so they're not long distance shooters.
Have fun tomorrow and let us know how your elevation and windage calculations go at 700yds!
My big game hunting cartridge is also my longest range cartridge: .270 Winchester. My rifle is a Remington 700 BDL in stainless steel, with a HS Precision stock, glass bedded floating barrel, custom trigger, and Leupold VXIII 4-12AOx40 scope. I sight in for 0" drop at 200yds which puts me at +1.5" at 100yds. The .270 Winchester is a pretty flat shooting cartridge but at 400yds I'm already at about a 19" holdover and by 500yds it's at about a 40" holdover. I've never even tried 700yds so I'm not sure what my holdover would be, but my barrel would be pointed so high it's look like I was duck hunting with a rifle!
I work up my own loads and weigh them. My best recipe so far includes Remington brass, Winchester LR primers, 130gr Hornady SST, and Alliant Reloader 19 powder. I can't remember off-hand how many grains of powder I've worked up in my current loads but I think it's about 52 grains. I'm chrono-ing at just over 3200fps (V) and MPBR right about 300yds. Anyway, it's more than enough to take about any game in North America which is good enough for me.
I like to play with my AR15 and SU16, but those little .223 cartridges aren't good for much more than coyote or jackrabbits and only under 200yds, so they're not long distance shooters.
Have fun tomorrow and let us know how your elevation and windage calculations go at 700yds!
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I shoot a 5.56 to about 800 yards, and I've shot a .50 to further distances... The M-16 was iron sights, I had a scope with the .50.
Nothin like watchin someone's pumpkin explode, and watchin his buddy wonder what happened... then gettin him, too...
Not that I've ever done that...
Nothin like watchin someone's pumpkin explode, and watchin his buddy wonder what happened... then gettin him, too...
Not that I've ever done that...
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I shoot a 5.56 to about 800 yards, and I've shot a .50 to further distances... The M-16 was iron sights, I had a scope with the .50.
Nothin like watchin someone's pumpkin explode, and watchin his buddy wonder what happened... then gettin him, too...
Not that I've ever done that...
Nothin like watchin someone's pumpkin explode, and watchin his buddy wonder what happened... then gettin him, too...
Not that I've ever done that...
Darn Marines and their shootin.
I shoot 5.56 to 500'ish comfortably. Also have a Remington 700 .308 - factory as all hell right now.
ONE day, I'll get enough of the $$$$ to get a .50
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I shoot a 5.56 to about 800 yards, and I've shot a .50 to further distances... The M-16 was iron sights, I had a scope with the .50.
Nothin like watchin someone's pumpkin explode, and watchin his buddy wonder what happened... then gettin him, too...
Not that I've ever done that...
Nothin like watchin someone's pumpkin explode, and watchin his buddy wonder what happened... then gettin him, too...
Not that I've ever done that...
Nice...
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Wow, I cant believe I am the only one. Ruger Model 1 45-70. 52.4g Reloader #7 405g bullet. I also like my M77 MKII in a .280 Ackley. I never shoot that one further than 250 though.