I had a my first dedicated ELR rifle built almost 10 years ago with the goal of breaking the 800 yard mark on a marmot. After a lot of shooting over the summer I climbed above timberline into a long valley above Aspen where I had been shooting for a number of years. First two shots took two marmots off the same rock pile at 750 yards. Next one I saw was looking over the top of a different boulder at 1107 yards. All I could see was his head and shoulders as he was facing me. At the shot he disappeared so I hiked over for a look. Bullet hit him center of chest and what was left was the front of a marmot with the rest of the hide empty and a mess on the rocks. Went on to make kills on marmots out to 1402 yards, elk over 1K with that rifle. Have a .300 Norma Improved build underway hoping to extend to a mile on marmots.
I also had this shot on steel one day I thought I'd stretch out the 28. It was a Fierce fury long range with hand loaded 180 vld at 3240 FPS.
One shot and hit the mark. I was just expecting to hit the steel at that distance and that was a big maybe !!
Was about 20 mph gusts that day so I shot at 1288 yards and new I hit but had to go to steel to see where and this is what I found !
I didn't take a second shot and ruin it haha.
But I did move to 1500 yards and I hit top right corner of the plate which was okay but not like the 1288 yard shot. I can't find the pic of 1500 yards.
A lot changes from 1000 to 1288 and even gets way more difficult an extra 110 yards past that.
Steel plate is 22"t x19" w I believe.
Oops sorry !! Thread says hunting shot.
Dang it !! I guess you could say I was hunting steel that day !! Can't delete or I would.
Sorry guys.
My longest distance kill is 377yds on a whitetail buck in 2011. Shooting a 7RM with 139gr Hornady IB's. Not too many long range opportunities down here in the southeast part of the country.
