Long range shot placement

[Andy54Hawken]

Maybe he got lost while walking down range to check out his distant target...
Andy

 

[11Charlie]

Maybe he got lost while walking down range to check out his distant target...
Andy

If RSO didn't give the all clear

 

[tac]

I HATE zombie posts to death.

tac

 

[USMC-03]

Get thee to a range hosting an NRA long range and/or Palma match; the first step is observing how things work. Shooter, scorer and target puller work as basically a team. Then do the research (meaning lots of reading). Finally put together a rifle system together that will meet the requirements, test your loads very well and then go participate.

 

[Stomper]

Well... there goes 5 minutes I'll NEVER get back.... motherbubblegummer!!

 

[Certaindeaf]

What are your solutions are to the problem of spotting your rounds on target at long distances?

How do you identify your shot placement at long distances. Any distance, all distances; any/all targets.

My buddy could hit anything at any distance, offhand.. according to him. If you couldn't spot his rounds hitting a given target, it was your fault and you were just blind.

 

[bbbass]

Dang it! Sucked me in again!!!!

 

[308]

Well... there goes 5 minutes I'll NEVER get back.... motherbubblegummer!!

I multitask by reading necrothreads on my porcelain throne

 

[Andy54Hawken]

That's funny.
One of my favorite shooting sayings is "I shoot great one shot groups."
Maybe you could say this to your buddy...
Andy

My buddy could hit anything at any distance, offhand.. according to him. If you couldn't spot his rounds hitting a given target, it was your fault and you were just blind.

 

[bbbass]

I multitask by reading necrothreads on my porcelain throne

Stinkin up the laptop in more ways than one. Very fitting reading spot for this crap.

 

[Mark W.]

I hire a liberal to stand next to the target with a cell phone and call me with the results. Most of them are so dense its not hard to find one. The offer of a few food stamps or MAX train tickets to a Protest usually works.

If I can't find a Liberal I just use my spotting scope its 48 power If that won't work I guess I could use my little Meade ETX-90 UHTC telescope.

 

[tac]

Back when I was doing such things for a living, well, sometimes, I allowed myself the comfort of the knowledge that my lucky shot was somebody else's unlucky shot. I strove, therefore, to do the very best that I could with every shot I fired, in the hope that those circumstances would never be the other way around.

Even now, when shooting at very little, that thought is going through my head with every shot I fire.

As for this thread, well, shooting at long-range steel was something I did long ago and far away, except in my mind, and my abiding memory is that after running down from 1000 yards to 600 yards, in full kit, 60 pound Bergen rucks and wearing a respirator/MOB suit, of just how grateful I was to be able to lie down for a a few seconds before I started shooting - more often in the p*ssing rain.

tac

 

[bsa1917hunter]

Maybe he got lost while walking down range to check out his distant target...
Andy

Or he got bit by a rattler on the way down...



RIP.....

 

[ron]

Shoot at a range with a partner taking turns in the pit to call your shots.

Worth every penny of membership.

What he said. Hi Bill DRRC Rapid Fire Prone 300 yards

 

[Scarint]

No no, I'm still here. Apparently every time I'm on the site I'm not logged in...

I was intentionally vague, and your answers were (and are) exactly what I was hoping to hear.

You guys were right, I was building up to something, and I didn't say what, but I will say this: stay tuned. It's taken me much longer than I anticipated (all KINDS of stuff get in the way!). It'll be glorious.

 

[B3dlam]

No no, I'm still here. Apparently every time I'm on the site I'm not logged in...

I was intentionally vague, and your answers were (and are) exactly what I was hoping to hear.

You guys were right, I was building up to something, and I didn't say what, but I will say this: stay tuned. It's taken me much longer than I anticipated (all KINDS of stuff get in the way!). It'll be glorious.

As I'm sure you've seen being intentionally vague drives guys nuts. Ask a direct question and people are happy to answer. Asking something vague is likely to irritate people.

 

[Certaindeaf]

In the neck, Bob!

 

[Scarint]

As I'm sure you've seen being intentionally vague drives guys nuts. Ask a direct question and people are happy to answer. Asking something vague is likely to irritate people.

I do know this; my vague question (original post wasn't vague so much as it was quite broad, but I accept that some view that as too vague) served two purposes. One, to see how others would directly answer, and two, to see what they'd ask in regards to specifics.

And the original post really is as specific as the question can be. My question covers long range, short range, indoor, outdoor, rifles, pistols, known distance, moving, any target type, rimfire, centerfire, airsoft... Any more specific, and I'm asking how you like what I'm building, and I'm not ready for that yet.

 

[B3dlam]

There are currently a number of products available for long range shooters to spot shots. There are wireless and wired target cameras, There are vibration based indicators for steel targets (they flash a light when the target is hit) There are a number of other crazy technologies out there as well but between the two of those you can cover most situations that are outside what can be viewed through the rifle optics/spotting scope.

 

[Scarint]

I'd be interested to know what wireless and wired target cameras you're familiar with. The ones I know of start at about $350 and go up from there...TargetVision, Bullseye, Caldwell.