what is the longest distance you have hit a target at?

[markw76]

BOOM!



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Pang!


I love big, slow slugs. Nearest thing to artillery.

 

[RVTECH]

Nothing special but a few months ago I was amusing fellow campers hitting eggs resting on a fence post at 50 + yards with my 1861 Springfield .58 Zouave (great splatter!). I can regularly hit cans at 150 - 175 yards with it benchrested. I hit a 16 oz propane cylinder at a measured 100 yards with my 1851 Navy .36 a while back (#6 of five previous tries!). Also several years ago I owned a .44 mag Super Blackhawk with the 8 3/8" barrel and with good handloads and practice I could hold an 8" group at 300 yards.

 

[Larry Gibson]

With a rifle 2 rock chucks with 3 shots at 800 yards (was paced so it could be +/- a couple yards) and (non .50 BMG) a blow up Easter Bunny at 1600 yards. With a .50 BMG rifle 2100 meters. With direct fire using an 81mm mortor; 1650 meters. I'm also a long range high power shooter and love 800,900 and 1000 yard matches. Also a lot of rocks way out yonder.......

Larry Gibson

 

[markw76]

Welcome aboard, Larry.

 

[jakk586]

man, you guys are studs. other than the 100yd targets at the range, farthest shot i ever made was at 80 yds. hit a pinecone sitting on a stump with a 4" 586 shooting 158gr jfn.

 

[Larry Gibson]

man, you guys are studs. other than the 100yd targets at the range, farthest shot i ever made was at 80 yds. hit a pinecone sitting on a stump with a 4" 586 shooting 158gr jfn.

Jake

With a 4" barreled handgun that"s pretty "studly" too!

Question for all of us; Can we repeat those shots?

Larry Gibson

 

[markw76]

Question for all of us; Can we repeat those shots?

With a free afternoon and enough ammunition, sure. Kidding!

 

[sweetbeard]

Jake

Question for all of us; Can we repeat those shots?

Give me a mile + and I can beat it!

I need a 1,500 yrd range.. not likely to find one

 

[markw76]

Give me a mile + and I can beat it!

I need a 1,500 yrd range.. not likely to find one

Not without a farmer friend with 20 fallow acres against a hill somewhere...

 

[Larry Gibson]

Guess I'm lucky to out where there is lots of National Forest and BLM land. I also be long to a local club that has a 600 yard range (for matches) with the main range being 200 yards and open every day. When I lived in NE Oregon the varmint hunting club I was a member of had a place in the NF only 11 miles from town. That was where we had campouts and shoots (family affairs). The shoots were multiple events and encompased .22s, handguns, shotguns and rifles. The events were fun shoots and were geared around varmint shooting. A side match one year was the 1600+ yard Easter Bunny shoot. We drew cards for the shooting order and then paid 50 cents to the pot for 1 shot. That continued until someone hit the bunny. Lots of fun and hoorawing each other as you tried to shoot and of course when you missed. Lots of spotting scopes set up watching and the bunny was away on a hillside so the puffs of dirt could be seen from bullet strikes (misses). First year I won about halfway through the third go around and won about $12 or so. I was shooting my long rang rock chuck rifle then, a 6.5-280. The next year I won shooting a .50 cal rifle a couple friends and I built (50 BMG, only thing factory was the trigger assembly and the new M2 barrel). As reigning "bunny" champian I was just shooting for fun. I actually hit the bunny with a 6 moa at 500 yards capable tracer!. The tracer shot fairly straight to 800-1000 yards then started looping around and curved right into the bunny! I felt bad about hitting the bunny but everyone was laughing so hard at the shot and the bunny's bad luck nobody cared! It was a great time back in the late '70s.

Larry Gibson

 

[Joe Link]

Easter Bunny shoot! Man that sounds like a great time

 

[markw76]

Sounds like you shot a "strike"! What was used for the bunny? Big rock? Shooting incendiary tracers would be fun at that distance as long as there was no vegetation to catch fire.

 

[Larry Gibson]

... Shooting incendiary tracers would be fun at that distance as long as there was no vegetation to catch fire....

Obviously there wasn't.

Larry Gibson

 

[sweetbeard]

I may shoot some traces tomorrow!

Larry glad to hear it.. I have heard alot of fools light stuff on fire with their incendiary rounds..

gives the rest of us a bad name!

 

[Weathermaker]

I shoot 300/600 yard local competitions. Last time out =

147-4x (300 yard) 145-6x (600 yard) for total of 292 out of possible 300.

X ring at 600 = 6 inches. 10 ring at 600 = 12 inches.

 

[Oohrah]

Not too shabby !!!

 

[stitchclimber]

I tapped paper plates at 300 meters with my Savage 110 .308

I've not ventured out that far in a while though.

 

[Capn Jack]

I hit the open hatch cover on an old tank hull with a 75mm recoiless at 500 yards Trouble is, I was aiming at the tank and would have missed it com pletely if the hatch hadn't been open.

 

[markw76]

Is it true those old tanks ring when you hit them?

 

[Capn Jack]

Couldn't say. That was in the Macho Days when no one wore ear protection. The only things ringing were my ears. That + 4 yrs as a jet mech.= 30% hearing loss. Someone was saying something about setting fires shooting tracer. We set quite a few with .30 cal.AP. The fire dept. would come out to the range and watch them burn....No way were they going to drive out into those old impact areas.