If you load it with a Berger 185 hunting VLD in a Lake City Case, using RL-17, you can get a muzzle velocity of 2600 fps, and that will get to 1,000 yds. Besides, it's a Savage, so you can get the gear to change your own barrel by calling Northland Shooters Supply, and you can change to any short-action caliber you want, with the same bolt face as a .308, or just get a honkin' big barrel for long-range. Either way, this gun will go to 1,000. Again, that's not my favorite thing, since you have to have a puller in the pit. At 500-600 yards, with Shoot N See patches, you can most likely make out your own impacts, which greatly facilitates learning the wind.