apache sniper
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Exactly!!!! you don't need to spend $$$$$$$$$ to play the long range game. Even in competition you don't have to spend thousands.
First time shooting at 1k
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Hunter2678
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Nope, but you better have super consistent brass and bullets...hornady would not be my first choice in long range shooting. For 10-12$ more per 100 Ill take my berger 105 hybrids over the 105 amax. Ive weighed both and the bergers are head and shoulders better in BC, weight and concentricity. JMHO
apache sniper
Active Member
If you can afford em good on ya. I can't. However I can tell you this. I weighed their 190 match,190 grain hunting their 225 grain 338's and their 250 grain 338's and have found them to be very very accurate and consistent. However I don't shoot much that isn't 30 cal or bigger with the exception of my M-4 in 5.56 NATO and it shoots MOA just fine for shootin targets. You may be right about their lighter bullets I just have never had reason to weigh em cause I don't use em.
apache sniper
Active Member
As a matter of fact Hornadys 285 grain long range match 338 bullet has a GREAT BC .700 I will weigh them next week when I get time and keep you posted on em. Unless they dont meet my standards and I do have high standards when it comes to match bullets I intend to use em next year in the national match 1000 meter competition and to break the range record I need to be shooting 1/4 MOA to do that.
Apache Sniper
Apache Sniper
g0cherr
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I shot my 300 short mag at 1000 yards for the first time last summer, and to say it was an exhilarating experience would be an understatement. To watch several bullets fly true that would have killed any of the animals I hunt was too cool. I did learn that day how important form is.
Good shooting everyone.
Good shooting everyone.
apache sniper
Active Member
Long range, IE 600 to 3000 yards is the absolute pinnacle of a rifleman. How many men do you personally know that can hit a man sized target at 1000, 1500, 2000 3000 yards? If you load your own, shoot your own and achieve MOA at those ranges or less than MOA Then you are in the 1% of all riflemen. Thats what I strive for. Good Shooting and God Bless
Apache sniper
Apache sniper
JohnMill
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So, we're spending all this time and money so we can hit a man (oh yeah "sized target", right). Serve you right if it turned out to be a friend cause you could not possibly identify them at that distance.
I do shoot at man shaped targets. 4-10 yards with a hand gun where i could certainly identify the threat.
Long Range Hunting Magazine, not man killing back shooting crap. There are other sites for that.
Course Len can ban me for being impolite. I apologise to Len.
John
PS I can certainly elaborate on this subject philosophically but it prolly wouldn't matter
J
I do shoot at man shaped targets. 4-10 yards with a hand gun where i could certainly identify the threat.
Long Range Hunting Magazine, not man killing back shooting crap. There are other sites for that.
Course Len can ban me for being impolite. I apologise to Len.
John
PS I can certainly elaborate on this subject philosophically but it prolly wouldn't matter
J
tatersalad
Member
wow, nobody mentioned shooting a man at any range. Physically there isn't much difference in size between a 'man-sized target' and a 'deer sized target', one is portrait and one is landscape.
Not sure which button we pushed, no offense was intended. Some of us 'grew up' shooting at 'man-sized targets', under safety systems which make every civilian range I've shot on look down right chaotic. We continue to refer to a rifle as a weapon because that is the terminology we learned.
I'll apologize in advance for the next time I slip up and revert to using the terminology I learned in Basic Marksmanship training, I hope you'll forgive me.
Feel free to not pay any attention to my posts if it makes you feel better.
Not sure which button we pushed, no offense was intended. Some of us 'grew up' shooting at 'man-sized targets', under safety systems which make every civilian range I've shot on look down right chaotic. We continue to refer to a rifle as a weapon because that is the terminology we learned.
I'll apologize in advance for the next time I slip up and revert to using the terminology I learned in Basic Marksmanship training, I hope you'll forgive me.
Feel free to not pay any attention to my posts if it makes you feel better.
tatersalad
Member
apache sniper, I know exactly what you are talking about. Feel free to PM me if you want to continue the conversation.
apache sniper
Active Member
Give me one reason why I should dignify that little tirade. Yes Man sized targets are what snipers shoot at little boy they are the best long range shooters we have. Forgive the hell outa me I guess your witto feelers are made of glass and you are looking for a reason to bitch and fight. Grow UP
apache sniper
Active Member
Sorry tater, I guess I didn't know there were liberal whiners here must remember that lets see here guns are ONLY made to shoot paper right? gotcha. member that little one
Yes I will reply via PM's Tater
Yes I will reply via PM's Tater
tatersalad
Member
no problem apache, took me off guard as well.
later
later
apache sniper
Active Member
I guess that means that all snipers are murderers in his /it's opinion. I have never served with more dedicated men in my life. It's also obvious he doesn't even know what he is talking about due to the fact we can count a mans teeth at 3000 yards thats 19 70's technology. Aw well...... facts never get in the way where liberals and super sensitive children are involved
apache sniper
Active Member
I am also forced to wonder what this individual thinks of Military personnel who have actually killed folks in the line of duty? He admits he shoots at man targets with his pistol....... thats pretty incongruous considering what he said. Could it be small rifle envy?
