World Record Extreme Long Range Shot 4.4 Miles

[Member 34319]

Ok read the article, 69th shot! Nice

Crazy bubblegum set up!

 

[po18guy]

Is this repeatable, or another case of enough monkeys with enough long range rifles?

 

[DunRanull]

What, no customised .50 BMG? Make mine Ma Deuce!

 

[Camelfilter]

Merging...

...merged.

 

[OldguyZ]

Wow. Incredible.

 

[waltermitty]

I'm not as impressed with these types of headlines. After all, duffers can hit a hole in one and gang bangers can take a life of someone with a stray shot from a Glock 19 held sideways a 2000' away. The proof in the pudding is % of follow up shots with equal success. Absent that info, I just yawn and move on

 

[2506]

68 previous tries. I guess you can lob a bullet a long ways and get a hit eventually.

It's more like artillery at that range

 

[Dr Prepper]

not a major accomplishment in my view, shooting at something the size of a car if you are persistent enough you will hit it eventually. woopie!

Yeah I pretty much agree. And if you throw enough money at equipment I don't really think theres a lot of skill involved in the reloading either. Its not like there is some secret sauce they are using a bunch of other people aren't. Its just most folks can't afford $600 primer seaters, $2000 Prometheus scales and so on. Like Erik Cortina said he had his young daughter making his ammo after getting that equipment and its so good he shot a 3 shot string to verify velocity for quals and they all shot literally the exact same speed, the judges thought their equipment broke etc or something was fishy. The fact is. If you have that kinda cheese to spread we are at that point where the average Joe can get that kinda consistency fairly easily if your somewhat paying attention.
There's things that can have a lot more impact if you have the right equipment.

 

[Dr Prepper]

I'm not as impressed with these types of headlines. After all, duffers can hit a hole in one and gang bangers can take a life of someone with a stray shot from a Glock 19 held sideways a 2000' away. The proof in the pudding is % of follow up shots with equal success. Absent that info, I just yawn and move on

Yup.
What would be funny to know is how much $ those 69 shots of 416 cost them to accomplish this mostly odds based shot? Wasn't cheap!

 

[jbett98]

"Fire for Effect" is what I was thinking.

 

[tinhorn]

Darned show-off.

 

[Topaz454]

I was going to ignore this thread even if I was interested in the 4.4 mile hit.
That is the equivalent of shooting a parked car in a parking lot in Bellevue from Capitol hill in Seattle Washington.

To me, a record is doing something very, very difficult beyond what anyone else has done in the category. Number of attempt or not. Especially if the nearest attempt was 4 miles.

A catching a 3500# great white sharp is still a record even if you HAVE been trolling thousands of miles for all of your life.
One 250hp Mercruiser may be $16000 and a a new replacement of one of the two or three may be $28000.
Off shore boats used $80,000. New $100,000 and up.

So the amount they spent, most of which may have been a write off for the shop, doesn't approach the amounts spent by others on their hobby. Anyone race cars or boats, or fly for fun?

And at it was NOT shot from a machine rest. Even though it was a stable position with an incredible heavy gun, the alignment adjustments and trigger pull were still by a person.

Bushwacker out here.

 

[Dr Prepper]

Meh, I'm a fan of rocketry.. Now that's hard! Try hitting the moon or mars!

And also goes without saying even though true, "please don't feed the troll"

In closing just like rocketry, both are fairly Dependant on weather on somewhat luck. But also. Luck is what you make of it.

 

[jbett98]

This long article describing the incredible lengths to consistently shoot a projectile though the same bullseye target hole at 100 yds. is the exact opposite of what is being discussed with this thread.

Secrets of the Houston Warehouse

Secrets of the Houston Warehouse – Lessons In Extreme Rifle Accuracy

Back in 1993, Precision Shooting Magazine printed a landmark article about the findings of a group o...

precisionrifleblog.com

 

[DunRanull]

This video of a father and son shooting a vintage Schmit Rubin at a smaller target 1000 yds away with iron sights and getting hits using an old ironing board to rest on. This is more impressive to me then spending a ton of money to lay claim to a longest yards record.

1000 yds/meters with a surplus combat rifle is skill. 4.4 "miles" is a stunt.

 

[Certaindeaf]

1000 yds/meters with a surplus combat rifle is skill. 4.4 "miles" is a stunt.

It takes about 1.5 hrs to walk that far.

 

[NeoBlackdog]

It takes about 1.5 hrs to walk that far.

Well sure, if you're dilly-dallyin' along. If ya start steppin' out proper like I bet you could cover it in an hour and 25 minutes or so.

The whole thing is Bravo Sierra. Given enough rounds I could eventually accomplish the same thing with my 270 with the scope cranked all the way to 8. It's called 'accuracy through volume of fire'.

 

[Certaindeaf]

Well sure, if you're dilly-dallyin' along. If ya start steppin' out proper like I bet you could cover it in an hour and 25 minutes or so.

The whole thing is Bravo Sierra. Given enough rounds I could eventually accomplish the same thing with my 270 with the scope cranked all the way to 8. It's called 'accuracy through volume of fire'.

1.5 hours is 1 hour and 30 minutes..
not a whole heap different than 1 hour and 25 minutes.

 

[NeoBlackdog]

1.5 hours is 1 hour and 30 minutes..
not a whole heap different than 1 hour and 25 minutes.

Once again showing the need for a 'sarcasm' font...

 

[arakboss]

I don't think you're comprehending how far away 4.4 miles is and what it takes to hit something at that distance. I'd bet most couldn't do it with 1068 previous rounds.

You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.

And

You miss 99.999 percent of the shots you take at 4.4 miles.