I wish I had a place close by to shoot 1000 yards safely but I really don't. Actually I probably could get on top of a big hill and shoot straight down the Ohio River and keep bullets from getting away from me. I know a spot that's just about perfect but that "just about" part is enough to keep me from trying it. I'd have to carry my rifle and ammo through thick woods to get to that place too. It's overlooking a cliff that was cut out when they put a highway in. It's about a 400 foot drop from that cliff to the road below so there's not much going to run in front of me if I shot from there. And the Ohio is pretty wide where I live - about half a mile or more - so putting a round right in the middle of the river pointed straight down the river with no houses on either side of the river for a few miles would almost be good enough but you just never know when some kid might be walking the river bank. I did it myself way back when. I guess I still do sometimes. So I've never done it. It's be so hard to tell where you were hitting it woudn't be practical anyway.
I don't believe it would be nearly as hard as some are making it out to be though. It took me about a dozen trips to the gun range to learn to shoot 500 yards. I didn't think that was bad at all. I know more problems crop up at longer distances but I figure I could learn them. As for hitting moving targets all i can say is we learned to shoot by shooting moving targets. They were called rabbits and squirrels. Plus we shot bats at times when they became a problem by nesting around the house. Shooting a moving target isn't that hard. You don't need to learn to spot right at the moment you're trying to kill something. You do that when your "practicing". That's a word all shooters need to be on a first name basis with. You can't be a good hunter without practicing. I grew up shooting clays too. That's totally about shooting moving targets from a pretty good distance. I haven't done much of that for a long time so I doubt I could do it well but I sure see plenty of people who can at the gun range. They do real well at it in fact. We have several world champion shooters from my area here. Shooting sports are big here and trap shooting is probably the biggest one. Moving targets aren't so hard they can't be hit.
I don't believe it would be nearly as hard as some are making it out to be though. It took me about a dozen trips to the gun range to learn to shoot 500 yards. I didn't think that was bad at all. I know more problems crop up at longer distances but I figure I could learn them. As for hitting moving targets all i can say is we learned to shoot by shooting moving targets. They were called rabbits and squirrels. Plus we shot bats at times when they became a problem by nesting around the house. Shooting a moving target isn't that hard. You don't need to learn to spot right at the moment you're trying to kill something. You do that when your "practicing". That's a word all shooters need to be on a first name basis with. You can't be a good hunter without practicing. I grew up shooting clays too. That's totally about shooting moving targets from a pretty good distance. I haven't done much of that for a long time so I doubt I could do it well but I sure see plenty of people who can at the gun range. They do real well at it in fact. We have several world champion shooters from my area here. Shooting sports are big here and trap shooting is probably the biggest one. Moving targets aren't so hard they can't be hit.
I was spotting for a guy at the 1,000 yard line once, who foolishly was shooting 168SMK's which were going transonic on him. Many times, after he would shoot, the guys in the pits would not lower his target to mark his bullet hole. Reason? No sound so they never knew that he had fired at the target.
