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Balljoint
05-10-2016, 07:45 PM
Myself was at Cumberland Riflemen (Millville Nj.) for a match was joking with some other members of our team that an offhand shoot at 600 yards would be hard to make, so money came out for bet and for some one in the pits to pull and mark targets.
Well I and two other men in a three way tie out of five all on the spotter in Xring SO we to split the pot.
Robinhood
05-10-2016, 11:58 PM
F/class or Service Rifle target?
Nor Cal Mikie
05-11-2016, 09:35 AM
No competition but I have rung steel out to and past 440 yards (on a good day) using my M1A offhand. Remember, I said "on a good day".
Not too long after that, I handed the rifle to a "much younger" shooter to see what he could do with it. Just about anybody should be better than me??
This kid, I say kid because my grand kids were older than he was and I was at least 3 times older than he, ran a 20 round clip thru the rifle to 440 + yards and rung steel with every shot. That told me there was NOTHING wrong with my rifle that a good set of younger eyes couldn't cure.
yobuck
05-11-2016, 10:26 AM
Sometimes we wobbles them in and sometimes we don't. lol
upSLIDEdown
05-11-2016, 11:54 AM
We had some guy trolling a precision rifle group on Facebook not long ago claiming he could "pop tops" (head shots, evidently) at 800 yards, standing with a sling. Lolol.
Balljoint
05-11-2016, 05:24 PM
The rifle was my 03 Springfield Match rifle in 30/06 with 168 Sierra HPBT bullets
LongRange
05-11-2016, 09:37 PM
We had some guy trolling a precision rifle group on Facebook not long ago claiming he could "pop tops" (head shots, evidently) at 800 yards, standing with a sling. Lolol.

It's possible...I seen a guy at out matches put 5 in the head of an IPSC back to back with a sling and a 16.5-17lb 243 standing and I watched schny112 about a month ago put a few in a 3" square at 650yds kneeling with no sling.
gbflyer
05-11-2016, 11:12 PM
Shot offhand at least a half mile. Hit the canyon wall on the other side, and not just once. Does that count?[emoji1]
yobuck
05-12-2016, 08:01 AM
Shot offhand at least a half mile. Hit the canyon wall on the other side, and not just once. Does that count?[emoji1]

Nothing beats being honest.
Many years ago, in the early 50s I watched thru a spotter as a young Arthur Cook shot a perfect score in a 4 position indoor smallbore match.
But that was Arthur Cook, and the reason he had gone to the Olympics.
So I in fact had the privelage of being in the same building at the same time as a great shooter.
Nor Cal Mikie
05-12-2016, 09:26 AM
(Sometimes we wobbles them in and sometimes we don't. lol)

What ever it takes to get the job done!!
acemisser
05-12-2016, 11:24 AM
Shot offhand at least a half mile. Hit the canyon wall on the other side, and not just once. Does that count?[emoji1]

That's darn good shootin...
GrumpyGuns
05-12-2016, 02:44 PM
My farthest was with an issue M16 A2 with a sling at a 500 yard B mod target. Was proving to a young Marine that there was nothing wrong with his rifle and he just needed to do what I was telling him. He started listening after that :cool:
LoneWolf
05-12-2016, 04:22 PM
My farthest was with an issue M16 A2 with a sling at a 500 yard B mod target. Was proving to a young Marine that there was nothing wrong with his rifle and he just needed to do what I was telling him. He started listening after that :cool:

Done that one before!
mike21
05-12-2016, 05:28 PM
Well you're all better than me. Doubt I could shoulder my 13 pounder long enough to get on target.....well I could probably hit the opposing canyon wall.

Thread did remind me of this one if anyone wants to try a 9mm, S&W 929 @ 1000 yds.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJ3XwizTqDw
GrumpyGuns
05-12-2016, 05:30 PM
Done that one before!

Funny how we range coaches have to keep teaching that lesson lol
LoneWolf
05-12-2016, 05:34 PM
It amazed me at the last match I shot that guys were missing a full size silhouette by 10, 20, even 30yds standing at 200yds! This is a long range steel match where everyone is shooting something reasonably accurate with a high power optic!
devildogandboy
05-15-2016, 05:54 PM
here's Ryan Cleckner hitting target at 1000yds, offhand with 50bmg! wish i could do that.
http://bulletin.accurateshooter.com/2013/05/50-bmg-barrett-m107-off-hand-first-shot-hit-at-1000-yards/

Bruce
yew plucker
05-24-2016, 08:07 PM
Billy Dixon at Adobe Walls. It was a mile.
LoneWolf
05-24-2016, 08:17 PM
Over the weekend I was hitting a 36" plate at 250yds with the Colt Python 44Mag about 50% of the time.
kleeber
05-24-2016, 10:15 PM
Over the weekend I was hitting a 36" plate at 250yds with the Colt Python 44Mag about 50% of the time.

Ananconda?

I've taken to bringing a plate to set out at 100yds to plink at with a revolver while I'm waiting for the rifle barrels to cool. Lets me get in a lot more shooting in a range session. I love going up to the Whittington center in Raton to shoot at their pistol silhouette range. Nothing like toppling a ram @ 200 yds. You can see it start to fall before you hear the sound of the hit.