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Factors in long distance shooting
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xfyrfiter
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A bow at 100 is doable, by most people, with a little practice fairly consistently. 1K with a rifle is also, but there a lot fewer people that can do it with any regularity.
LHRGunslinger
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Yes. She's my sister. Not my wife.
Steel Talon
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Another critical skill to have mastered is your respiration. They must sync up in unison; your heart beat,blood pressure,and breathing together so that you can send the projectile in between heart beats.
Rifle handling,body positioning, trigger control,and parallax control
Your rifle platform ( system) needs to be in harmony (matched perfectly) to all of it's parts
Did I mention math....
For hunting applications which I'm not a fan of 1000 yards shots you need to have an excellent cartridge choice and to me it's the 338 win mag. Its also best to have a couple of spotters skilled in distance shooting. Once you find an animal at 1000yards (very tiny to the eye) align all the planets make a kill shot. then you have to walk a mile or so depending on terrain canyons draws etc. It's very easy to loose the animal at the kill sight. So by keeping a spotter back at the perch with his glass locked on he can guide
Rifle handling,body positioning, trigger control,and parallax control
Your rifle platform ( system) needs to be in harmony (matched perfectly) to all of it's parts
Did I mention math....
For hunting applications which I'm not a fan of 1000 yards shots you need to have an excellent cartridge choice and to me it's the 338 win mag. Its also best to have a couple of spotters skilled in distance shooting. Once you find an animal at 1000yards (very tiny to the eye) align all the planets make a kill shot. then you have to walk a mile or so depending on terrain canyons draws etc. It's very easy to loose the animal at the kill sight. So by keeping a spotter back at the perch with his glass locked on he can guide
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bbuddtec
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+1 for the tanker who said cant ...cant happens 
there's a lot of calculations to throw a ball in a basket, and the brain does em in a millisecond... I just think that says something about just "knowing what to do"...
Murph will mess the most carefully laid shot, as easily as a hip shot, in my opinion.
there's a lot of calculations to throw a ball in a basket, and the brain does em in a millisecond... I just think that says something about just "knowing what to do"...
Murph will mess the most carefully laid shot, as easily as a hip shot, in my opinion.
ghostwriter
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in addition to the above important stuff... add to that...
consistency from round to round. All handloads, all chronographed, all perfect as can be made so all the results will be the same.
Bullet weight, case volume, case neck concnetricity, case neck length, powder charge weight, seating depth, C.O.A.L., and fit to the chamber.
consistency from round to round. All handloads, all chronographed, all perfect as can be made so all the results will be the same.
Bullet weight, case volume, case neck concnetricity, case neck length, powder charge weight, seating depth, C.O.A.L., and fit to the chamber.
Zak Smith
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In some sense, there are a gazillion factors. From another perspective, there are very few. Being a great long-range shooter is about managing your unknowns and knowing what things you can ignore and what you need to nail down.
If you've used up 150 seconds of your 5 minutes to locate, range, and shoot six targets hidden in the field-- or you see an elk that's going to disappear over a ridge at 380 yards in the space of a few breaths-- what separates the riflemen from everyone else is the ability to know what few things need to be done to make the shot, and not doing or worrying about anything else.
Obligatory link.. I discuss a lot of the stuff in this series
article | Practical Long-Range Rifle Shooting, Part I - Rifle & Equipment
If you've used up 150 seconds of your 5 minutes to locate, range, and shoot six targets hidden in the field-- or you see an elk that's going to disappear over a ridge at 380 yards in the space of a few breaths-- what separates the riflemen from everyone else is the ability to know what few things need to be done to make the shot, and not doing or worrying about anything else.
Obligatory link.. I discuss a lot of the stuff in this series
article | Practical Long-Range Rifle Shooting, Part I - Rifle & Equipment
LHRGunslinger
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I'm curious as to why you recommend attending 5 separate "Major" matches. What exacly would you call a "Major" match?
Zak Smith
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You misunderstand that paragraph.
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