1020 yards, at a 2 foot high by four foot wide steel gong, with a heavy barrel Ruger M77 in .308 with a 10 power scope.
I went to a metallic sillhouette match with a relative, just to watch, and got invited to shoot a round for fun. Well, I guess embarrassing myself like that in front of a bunch of real shooters was kind of fun. I did manage to hit at least one of each animal, so it could have been worse.
After, he cranked some more elevation into the scope, and let me take a crack at the thousand yard gong. Shooting with elbows on a bench, I missed the first two, hit with the next three in a row once we got the wind figured out. Pretty fun to be able to watch the bullet splat, then wait for the clang to come back. Ammo was handloads with 190 grain match hollow points, and it seemed like they took quite a bit of time to get out there.
I went to a metallic sillhouette match with a relative, just to watch, and got invited to shoot a round for fun. Well, I guess embarrassing myself like that in front of a bunch of real shooters was kind of fun. I did manage to hit at least one of each animal, so it could have been worse.
After, he cranked some more elevation into the scope, and let me take a crack at the thousand yard gong. Shooting with elbows on a bench, I missed the first two, hit with the next three in a row once we got the wind figured out. Pretty fun to be able to watch the bullet splat, then wait for the clang to come back. Ammo was handloads with 190 grain match hollow points, and it seemed like they took quite a bit of time to get out there.