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long range hunting and shooting.....what the heck does that even mean?
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<blockquote data-quote="Alibiiv" data-source="post: 1525832" data-attributes="member: 69192"><p>I am about to send out my Ruger 77, tang safety to a smith in Montana for a build. I have been reading these postings for many months now and doing a lot of research on calibers. The longest shot that I plan to make in 500 yards on a white tail deer in Maine, either in a long pasture or a power line hunt. I have made a 450 yard kill on a small buck in farm land. If I win the lottery I will be taking this rifle mule deer/antelope hunt our west. There have been a number of opinions about the 77 action and the length of the magazine box being too short. Well this is my donor rifle, I have a safe full of Ruger 77 tang safety rifles and that is what I am going to be using. I am familiar with them, and I like the way they swing and handle for me. I have settled on the .280 Ackley Improved, with a Lilja barrel (haven't decide on 24 or 26 inch length yet), with a Timney trigger and pillar bedding. I already have a Leupold scope for the rifle. I will not have spent the college fund to have a rifle build that will make the kind of shots that I want to make on the game that I intend to hunt. With all that said, I live in Rhode Island so if I were shooting from the middle of the state and made a 1000+ yard shot I would have bullets landing in Connecticut, Massachusetts or the ocean! There is not a range in this state (that I know of) that has a range longer than 300 yards. So I understand what you have written about long range shooting to 200 yards. And before finding and reading this forum, I too thought that "300" yards was "long range shooting". I have found some ranges in Massachusetts and now plan to try the ranges out.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Alibiiv, post: 1525832, member: 69192"] I am about to send out my Ruger 77, tang safety to a smith in Montana for a build. I have been reading these postings for many months now and doing a lot of research on calibers. The longest shot that I plan to make in 500 yards on a white tail deer in Maine, either in a long pasture or a power line hunt. I have made a 450 yard kill on a small buck in farm land. If I win the lottery I will be taking this rifle mule deer/antelope hunt our west. There have been a number of opinions about the 77 action and the length of the magazine box being too short. Well this is my donor rifle, I have a safe full of Ruger 77 tang safety rifles and that is what I am going to be using. I am familiar with them, and I like the way they swing and handle for me. I have settled on the .280 Ackley Improved, with a Lilja barrel (haven't decide on 24 or 26 inch length yet), with a Timney trigger and pillar bedding. I already have a Leupold scope for the rifle. I will not have spent the college fund to have a rifle build that will make the kind of shots that I want to make on the game that I intend to hunt. With all that said, I live in Rhode Island so if I were shooting from the middle of the state and made a 1000+ yard shot I would have bullets landing in Connecticut, Massachusetts or the ocean! There is not a range in this state (that I know of) that has a range longer than 300 yards. So I understand what you have written about long range shooting to 200 yards. And before finding and reading this forum, I too thought that "300" yards was "long range shooting". I have found some ranges in Massachusetts and now plan to try the ranges out. [/QUOTE]
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