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Lately I've been getting into shooting metallic silhouette with my Dan Wesson .44mag. I can knock down the rams at 200 yards pretty well. Then a few days ago I saw a Savage Striker chambered in .260 Rem at a shop. Rifling/chamber/crown looks good. I've heard that the triggers are pretty heavy and creepy, but that it's curable. I really like this handrifle and want to buy it and build up a rig that can blast rams at 600 yards. Is this a bad idea? I'd be handloading for it (any suggestions welcomed) and I'd of course throw a scope on it (again - any suggestions welcomed).

Anybody here have experience with long-range handgunning? I regularly shoot rifles (my .308 and my K-31) past 600 yards, but my limit with the Dan .44/2x Nikon scope is really about 250 yards and I don't know a whole lot about shooting pistols past that but I'm very intrigued by the concept.
 
If you shoot handguns at 600 yards please send pics, cause that would be a quite a feat. Id love to see it done :) im new to competion world so i find this stuff very interesting. how large are the steel rams?
 
If you're enjoying that style of shooting and reloading and if buying the gun won't take food out of your kid's or wife's mouth or clothes off their backs then go for it. Life is far too short to not indulge if you can do it without financial grief.

So says the hedonist with 4 motorcycles, 6 bicycles and over 30 firearms bought in less than two years since getting up enough intrest to get into the sport...... :D
 
I had a Browning Hi Power with tangent sight that allowed me to wang shots of a big flat rock at 420 yards. My sight was set at the 350 meter mark on the sight to do it. I have also shot .44 Magnums at 600 yards (the measure set by the famous Elmer Keith shots at deer) with some friends of mine when coming up dry (no animals seen in the basin we were in) when hunting elk in Colorado one season. My friend John used a Ruger Bisley Vaquero 5.5" in .45 Colt, and he was astounding with it at long range. I was shooting a .44 Mag Ruger Vaquero 4 5/8", but apparently didn't have the practice that John had (he lives out there). We both got hits on "deer sized" rocks or patches that we picked to shoot at. He just got more than I did. It was great fun, and perfect substitue for NOT getting any "hunting-shooting" in that day.
 
Bob Mundon(TV trick shooter) had a show where he used a 44mag with a 3" barrel or maybe 2" shot balloons at 600yds just to show it's possible and there's a few youtube videos of looong range pistol shooting. It's possible, not necessarily practicle, if I had the space, I'd try it.
 
Well a Savage striker is a fine firearm. The .260 rem is a great cartridge certainly capable of long range work. So i would say go for it if you can swing it and get a good deal i don't think you will be sorry. I use a T/C Encore handgun chambered in .308 win. I have never had a opportunity to shoot past 300 yards with mine. It will however hit a 4" clay pigeon at 200 yards and a canteloup at 250 yards. the gun is capable of more but I just do not devote the time into practice.
 
Does hitting a basketball-sized small boulder at 100 yards count?

I was doing it freehand, standing and once I got the range, was hitting it EVERY SHOT.

The gun I was using?
Ruger LCP .380 Auto with factory everything and my own loads shooting Meister 92g hard cast round-nose lead pills!
It does have a Crimson Trace on it, which I wasn't using.
 
Striker

Long range pistol shooting is always fun.The striker trigger would have to go, mine is worst trigger in handguns I have. I like the old Contenders with long barrels , very accurate . Cals. from .223 to .35 rem.
Cisco
 
Karl Hungus:

Look into T/C Arms. The T/C Arms' Contender stills holds the world record at 500 yards: 0.75" X 3.5" using iron sights.

Geno
 
We shoot beyond 600 yards quite a bit, but it is fun to start newbies from 400-500 yards on steel: First pic is just a tad beyond 600 yards. REm XP-100 chambered in 6.5-284
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This was at 500 yards-6x47 Lapua. MOA Maximum (Falling block action is pictured below.
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Elk at 666 yards:
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This is an article I have written on 1500 yards prairie dogs:
http://www.longrangehunting.com/articles/1500-yard-prairie-dogs-1.php

Recently 775 yards, Two first shot connections: 7mm SAUM XP-100
http://www.handgunhunt.com/forum/ub...69272/Board/8/page/7/fpart/all/gonew/1#UNREAD
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This should get the discussion started:D
 
My Savage Striker in 308 has a very good trigger at 2.5 Lbs... my T/C SSK Contender in 375JDJ has a 1.5 LB trigger and you have to be careful with that one..lol
 
Xphunter - those are rifle scopes on those pistols, right? Looks like an SB, Leopold and a Nightforce. So I should be looking at a higher magnification rifle scope instead of a long eye relief < 9x pistol scope?

Very impressive photos by the way. That's kind of what I was wondering with this thread - if it's stupid/pointless to try doing rifle-type stuff with a pistol. Your photos pretty much answered the question.
 
Referring to an cut down rifle as a "handgun" seems a bit of a stretch. Of course hitting a small steel plate at those ranges with any firearm deserves a lot of respect.
 
My dad has a Remington XP-100 in 7mm-08 for long range silhouette shooting which should do the job, but I hadn't heard of the Savage Stryker before, looks to be the same concept. They have a pretty in-depth article of a stryker long range build up on 6mmBR you may want to read if you haven't: http://www.6mmbr.com/gunweek083.html
 
Karl,
Yes, they are all riflescopes:
NF NXS 8-32, Leupold Mark 4 6.5-20 FFP, Leupold VX-3 8.5-25, and a S&B PM II 5-25.

Sometimes I even compete against rifle in 1K matches or even in tactical matches.
http://dlsports.com/npage7a.html (International Tactical Riflemans Championship)
http://dlsports.com/itrc_2009_video.html
Post I made that Dave Lauck put on his site http://dlsports.com/itrc_2009_article.html

The Rem XP-100 has always been a handgun action. Some of us just take it to a place that the boys at Remington never dreamed of.
Like a center-grip XP-100 in 338 Lapua Improved (338AX)... shooting a 300 grain SMK at over 2650 fps
http://www.longrangehunting.com/forums/f29/aps-big-boy-49233/
http://www.longrangehunting.com/forums/f29/aps-xp-100-338-ax-group-52896/

The point of this is, yes, you can shoot at the same distances that rifles do and be competitive with them.
These are large specialty handguns, but if you look at rifles that shoot LR tactical matches or 1,000 yard rifles you will quickly notice they are much heavier and have longer barrels than your typical hunting rifle.
It is the same way with specialty handguns set-up for LR shooting
 
Karl,
What goals do you have for your specialty pistol as far as distance and the type of shooting you will be doing with it.
Pretty much all of my SP's have riflescopes on them.
Primarily Leupold, but I also have NF, Sightron S-3, and a Huskemaw.
Will likely get a Vortex Razor HD in the future.
I typically run the 6.5-20/5-22/5-20/6-24 or the 8-32 or 8.5-25 as far as magnification goes.
I shoot a lot of distance and typically start newbies at 400-600 yards on steel, so most of my scope are 30mm tubes, side focus, that have a lot internal MOA in the turrets.
A good 4.5-14 will do most people everything they want.
If you are used to higher magnification when hunting or competing, then the X's a 6.5-20 is hard to beat.
 
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