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What is your favorite rifle/ favorite drill

I love shooting my Savage 30-06 114 at clay pigeons at 250 yards.

Something about the way they shatter just gets me all excited

After that is playing connect the dots with my AR at 100 yards, shooting smiley faces
 
Groundhogs in a dry dusty soon to be crop field at 300-1000yds.Dust makes an excellent "spotter". Problem being.. early May-mid June is about the only opportunity around here.
 
My two current favorites are 5 clays glued to a 12x12" sheet of cardboard at ranges out to 800. Also like to take the free paint sticks you can get at local home improvement stores, glue a clay to them, and have a buddy "hide" them in the bushes behind my house (I have a private range).

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Eastern Oregon ground squrils at 100yd with 10/22. then when they get smart les baer .204 as far as I can hit them usuly out to 400 I am still learning the rifle. No recoil so its easy to spot my hits or misses.
 
les baer .204 as far as I can hit them usuly out to 400 I am still learning the rifle. No recoil so its easy to spot my hits or misses.
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i gotta ruger mkII in .204 that really seems to like the 40g, what are you feeding yours for 400yds on ground squirrel and where do you zero at? im thinking 300yd will be good, 2.5 high at 100 and 3 low at 350 yds is good hold on i think, pop can anyhow!
 
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Long range fun
What is your favorite rifle/ favorite drill

I love shooting my Savage 30-06 114 at clay pigeons at 250 yards.

Something about the way they shatter just gets me all excited
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just saw the skeet king^^^ lol no wonder your using clays!

i use them as targets for my 45 colt at about 20yds they're pretty fun
 
i like the steel plate targets for long range work, the ping and watching them fall is very rewarding, i like the ones shaped like woodchucks, if i hit the steel, ill hit the chuck, as i always use whatever setup ill be using in the feild.
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Prairie dogs.... are my number one favorite.
The only thing that is almost as much fun is hedge balls on a breezy day. Granted I can't do it with a gale force wind. I like to sit on the deck and shoot at a small batch of 6 hedge trees at the base of a little draw. The other side is a fairly fast climbing hill. The grove is ranged at 326 yards from the house. What makes it fun trying to time the wind gust with a 22-250. Find your target watch the wind blow it to the right or left depending on direction and try and time my shots for when the wind gust settles. The hedge ball slides back into the cross hairs. If everything goes right. It's one hell of a splatter.
 
Hmm....soda cans (full of course) at 100 with a .22, and after that, well, i have only shot barley past 200, and that was at soda cans with a .223.....
 
Formerly clays at the range with the Marlin 45-70 GG, now prairie dogs. First time I tried it was in Wyoming last Fall on a rancher's property...man was that fun! My buddy couldn't believe how they just stood there..."they're fearless!" he'd exclaim. A bit expensive and dramatic with the 7Mag though :eek:. My friends 17 HMR was more sensible and perfect for the task.
 
Im telling you, I get more excitement out of shooting old cucumbers with my VTR 22-250 at about 300 yards with varmint grenades than anything else!

The splats really are great, there is just something great about seeing a greenish mist erupt with varying sized chunks of cucumber flesh, seeds, and skin that gives me warm fuzzies :D
 
I switch it up, depending on mood.

I've been known to hit a golfball at 500 meters with a custom Mauser in 6.5-06, as printed in a certain precision shooting magazine.

That same rifle stays nicely inside 10" at 1000 yards, sometimes letting me group inside 8" if I lay off the coffee in the morning.

Lately, it's steel buffalo silhouettes at 800-1000 yards.

Then there are the 500 meter service rifle silhouette matches. That's a good time, seeing Springfields, Krags, Mausers, Schmidt-Rubins, Lee-Enfields, and so forth knocking over the steel way out there. :D
 
Can you guys do all of that standing on your feet, with only iron sights, and no trees/limbs, bridge or patio railings to lean against?

If you can shoot away from a range, hanging a white tropicana juice jug from a tree branch (in front of a deep river bank) is fun when the wind is almost calm.
Spray-painting a skillet orange will make an easy target and make a small 'clang' from at least 100 feet or so.

We could spread out a bag of white flour on a dark, dry surface, then drop a few bricks on it. Won't this always make a small visible 'puff', even if a Mini 30 or MN 44 misses the bricks?

fireman9731-yes, except that most of the safety labels are to protect the producers from liability, much more than to protect the consumer.
 
36" diameter steel gong at 1200 with my 338LM loaded with 300 grain sierras

Or my 300-338 Lapua Magnum loaded with 125 grain Noslers to 4375fps.

Very graphic on muts.
 
I shoot the 32 grain v-max factory load because its the most acurate load I can find in my .204. Right now I am 1'' high at 100 so zero at 200 and at 400 I use the first line down from the cross hair in the 4.5x14 lupold with the bnc reticle I don't know exactly how much drop i am getting I just know that at 400 with the scope on 14 the first line down is my aiming point and it works. The rats should be out in a month or so and I will be there to greet them. Pink mist for everyone.
 
Prairie dogs
Coyotes
Clay pigeons at 400 and 500 yards
Steel at 500 and 600 yards
Water jugs at any distance
 
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