Easy on, there, friends and neighbors - -
One - - With careful handloading, a good handgun, decent sights, and LOTS of practice, some pretty amazing things ARE possible.
I've always liked long range handgunning, ever since reading some of Elmer Keith's early works. I myownself have done some shooting I'd NOT be offended to have non-witnesses doubt until they had some experience.
It hasn't been many years ago that it was almost
UNBELIEVEABLE that a one-inch group could be shot at 100 yards with a model 29 S&W. Nowadays, given the necessary dedication, it is not
TOO uncommon a feat. Do the math - - Fairly consistent hits on a gallon milk jug at 300 yards are not one bit less likely than a one-inch group at 100. The jug measures roughly six inches wide by around ten inches tall. Looks to me as if a
TWO minute-of-angle group would hit the jug with every shot.
Two - - We're not talking about great accomplishments requiring lots of upper body strength here. This is not hand to hand combat nor professional football - - No matter how it irks some guys to be bested by a woman at a game which was traditionally a male sport, it DOES HAPPEN. Golf, tennis, scattergunning, riflery, and handgunnery.
I'll step right up and freely admit that I, personally, can't do the gallon-jugs-at-300 deal often enough to claim the ability. But I have done a lot of shooting at 200+, at similar-size targets, to know there was a time I could have managed, given a LOT of practice. I'll further say that in the 1980s, I was personally acquainted with at least three women who could outshoot me at the long range handgun game.
SO -- Let's not be too quick to deny the possibility of such shooting. If you want to say a, uh, Lorcin .380 pistol is inherently incapable of doing it, okay. But with good-to-excellent guns, sights, ammo, and plenty of practice, it is certainly possible, and now we're talking about individual abilities.
By the same token, let's not be TOO quick to get our backs up if a bit of healthy skepticism is expressed by not witnesses, AND if it is done politely. I've done a bit of judicious editing of less-than-gracious comments above. I don't believe the on-topic sense of the thread has suffered at all.
As my grandmother used to say, "Y'all all play nice now, y'hear?"
Johnny