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Let's talk about 2 mile cartridges
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<blockquote data-quote="ELR Researcher" data-source="post: 1222262" data-attributes="member: 19541"><p>EXPRESS</p><p> </p><p>E-mail sent re getting your range listed on my site.</p><p> </p><p>In re the DTA HTI in 460 Steyr, seems you like that cartridge a lot. What are you going to be doing for brass?</p><p> </p><p>I'd spend some time dialoging with Desert Tech to find smiths in Italy and the surrounding area that have experience in rebarreling an HTI. USRA (in California) has 3-4 shooters using that platform and at least one who has done a rebarrel, a non-trivial matter.</p><p> </p><p>While I am not familiar with any folks doing it with a lot of gusto, I'd seriously consider "preparing" the ground around your steel to show splash. That will, at minimum, involve removing vegetation and, possibly, adding "splash material" (possibly bringing over some of the earth from the shorter distance range, even sifting it out to make the splash more noticeable). In URSA we use the RTAC I.R.I.S. system which is a lot more friendly for hit identification than trying to "see" hits. [Their are video-based systems available but my experience with them is that they are not very easily seen at the shooters location, especially in bright light, and they also seem to always off to the side such that the video image is significantly distorted.] </p><p> </p><p>Now that you probably have the large steel on order, too late to suggest much smaller targets. IMO, hitting a target roughly the size of the end of a barn does not bring much "excitement" to prospective shooters. In any case, making the commitment and actually doing what you are doing deserves a huge BRAVO! Best of luck.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ELR Researcher, post: 1222262, member: 19541"] EXPRESS E-mail sent re getting your range listed on my site. In re the DTA HTI in 460 Steyr, seems you like that cartridge a lot. What are you going to be doing for brass? I'd spend some time dialoging with Desert Tech to find smiths in Italy and the surrounding area that have experience in rebarreling an HTI. USRA (in California) has 3-4 shooters using that platform and at least one who has done a rebarrel, a non-trivial matter. While I am not familiar with any folks doing it with a lot of gusto, I'd seriously consider "preparing" the ground around your steel to show splash. That will, at minimum, involve removing vegetation and, possibly, adding "splash material" (possibly bringing over some of the earth from the shorter distance range, even sifting it out to make the splash more noticeable). In URSA we use the RTAC I.R.I.S. system which is a lot more friendly for hit identification than trying to "see" hits. [Their are video-based systems available but my experience with them is that they are not very easily seen at the shooters location, especially in bright light, and they also seem to always off to the side such that the video image is significantly distorted.] Now that you probably have the large steel on order, too late to suggest much smaller targets. IMO, hitting a target roughly the size of the end of a barn does not bring much "excitement" to prospective shooters. In any case, making the commitment and actually doing what you are doing deserves a huge BRAVO! Best of luck. [/QUOTE]
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