500 yards with any rifle ?

[PORSCHE928S4]

For the record there has been a few rifles that would not even do 100 yards well but they are gone and wont name names !

 

[Cavedweller]

Bonus point for hitting the 2" plate with an SKS using Wolf ammo

Russian SKS, maybe, with luck. Chinese SKS, no F'n way.

ETA: Not all SKSs are created equal.

 

[2Wheels4Ever]

I can hit my 12in plate at 350 all day long with any of my scoped center-fire rifles. 2in at 500? I'd love to see that done consistently, with multiple rifles. That's some world record shooting. A few mph of wind in any given direction for the entirety of the 500m is going to knock you off trajectory by more than 2in. Just seeing/identifying a 2in target at 500m is a feat I couldn't replicate; not with my gear at least.

 

[saxon]

I limited myself to 200m using pistols with iron sights (in my IHMSA days ). Shooting the 50m chickens at 200m during shootoffs was not so easy...

a friend and i were at a range and someone left a microwave out at a good distance
we started shooting at it with hand guns and hit it a few times but were also within a foot of it, pace it out and it was at 200 yards

 

[DunRanull]

A 2" plate at 500 meters? Shoot, Natty Bumpo could do that with a Pennsylvania Long Rifle, standing on his head while escaping murderous INDIANS...
That said, I can hit chest-size targets with my Serbian AK using Yugo surplus ammo, open sights, at 300 meters pretty consistently, free hand standing, while breathing is at rest. That's about it for me with the AK tho...

 

[OrPackrat]

I have a rifle I have yet to shoot that is supposed to be zeroed at 500yds.

If I had a range that went to 500, I'd love to shoot at that range...

 

[Mono1]

free hand standing

Not bad, Dun!

 

[Flopsweat]

What brand of ammo are we talking about here? Black Hills, Winchester, Remington? Is it match grade?

 

[DunRanull]

Not bad, Dun!

The "Like" is for your Aaron Zelman quote re: armed Jews v Nazis. I have long believed that if every Jew had taken out just one goose-stepper the history of the world would have been much different. There is much to be said about an armed and DETERMINED group WILLing to use force to further it's ends, be they political or group survival. A thing I learned from reading V.I. Lenin back in my collegiate days...
No I am not a bolshie, I despise them and pretty much everything they did. Which is not to say that we can't learn from them...

 

[Heyjoe]

Since this is true, perhaps you mean a 2' plate?

The Deef is giving you an out holmes

 

[Mono1]

The Deef is giving you an out holmes

Ya I'm thinking a decimal point mighta been slipped.

 

[Xmark1]

Possible.

In a temperature-controlled vacuum with no wind.
No temperature or wind changes during flight.
Custom hand loaded ammo that matches your rifle twist & harmonics. Neck tension, propellent charge, trim length, meplat trimmed and a dozen other factors that produce less than 10 fps standard deviation.
Precision rifle balanced & blueprinted with a $450 trigger, On a benchrest in a vice.
Let us not forget proper use of a scope with full knowledge of parallax error and proper doping for air density, etc.
Too name but a few of the variables....

I do this all the time with my 10/22.

 

[Mono1]

I do this all the time with my 10/22.

Ya Me Too!

 

[PORSCHE928S4]

What brand of ammo are we talking about here? Black Hills, Winchester, Remington? Is it match grade?

I was using Winchester 6.5c 125 deer xp not match grade

 

[Camelfilter]

Who is shooting all of their rigs out to 500 yards on the regular ? I am not talking about 22 lr but center fire ? I play a game with off the shelf ammo not even match and have all of my rifles hitting a 2in plate at 500 yards and under . I am asking is that the norm ? I was at the range and a guy had a "Precision Rifle " with hand loads and was having issues at the 500 yard mark . I have been shooting for about 50 years is it a either you have it or you don't or some other special formula ?

2in plate, off the shelf ammunition, 500 yards with all center fire rifles?

No, that is not the norm.

You know it's not the norm.

 

[Heyjoe]

Ya I'm thinking a decimal point mighta been slipped.

Baah! Pesky details.

 

[msgriff]

You can look up the F-Class Open National Championship scores. A 2" plate @ 500 yards is roughly equivalent to "X" ring hits, and you can determine the percentage of those hits from the top shooters in the world.
It reminds me of the old paper target joke, "That's some mighty fine shooting. What caliber are those holes, Dixon or Ticonderoga?"

 

[Flopsweat]

I was using Winchester 6.5c 125 deer xp not match grade

And what rifles?

 

[Member 53328]

You can look up the F-Class Open National Championship scores. A 2" plate @ 500 yards is roughly equivalent to "X" ring hits, and you can determine the percentage of those hits from the top shooters in the world.
It reminds me of the old paper target joke, "That's some mighty fine shooting. What caliber are those holes, Dixon or Ticonderoga?"

The good ol' pencil punch. It's called pit love. Haha.

 

[PORSCHE928S4]

And what rifles?

Browning hells canyon speed in 6.5c
Dnz rings
Zeiss conques v4 4-15x50

Browning hells canyon McMillan 6.5c
Rail with vortex rings
Meopta optika 5 4-20x 50

Sako A7 308 win
Bell and Carlson stock
Contessa steel rail vortex rings
Meopta optika 6 2-15x44