Long range rifle pictures!

[zammyman]

I realize some of these aren't going to be true long range rifles (including my own), but let's see pictures of your "long range" rifle(s)!!!! Also, what's the longest shot you've taken (or attempted), hunting, plinking, or otherwise.

(Hasn't been fired yet)...
Savage 10FP 308
Leupold VX-II 3-9x40 Scope
Leupold 2.5" Sun Shade
Warne Steel Bases
Weaver quad lock rings
Butler Creek flip caps
Harris 9-13" Bipod
Choate Ultimate Varmit stock

 

[jpwilly]

Isn't mine but I wish it was:

 

[longdayjake]

I took a picture of my friend hunting while I was standing about 300 yards away. Is that what you meant by long range rifle pictures?

 

[zammyman]

Nope I mean pictures of the rilfes, not the shot(s).

 

[.38 Special]

Zam, I think you are in for a rough ride. There is so much BS and juvenile fantasy foolishness regarding "long range" rifles that a lot of folks simply can't resist poking a bit of fun.

Moreover, long range riflery is 10% gun and 90% rifleman. In that sense, a "long range" rifle is whatever is in the hands of a competent "long range" marksman, perhaps barring such things as .30-30 lever guns. Simply slapping a heavy barrel and a kielbasa-sized scope onto a stock action doesn't really mean a whole lot.

Good luck with the thread, anyway...

 

[dmazur]

MRC 1999 .30-06
Accurate Innovations stock
Leupold VXIII 6.5-20X scope
Warne steel bases
Tactical Precision steel rings

I've been working up loads at 200 yds and occasionally try shooting at 300 yds.

 

[rrflyer]

700 PSS
Mueller Tactical Scope
15MOA rail
Rifle Basix trigger

 

[BornAgainBullseye]

Mauser 98 over a hundred years, and still copied today. .308 winchester. I don't feel like typing everything that I have into it, Ill just say I have more in it that I could ever get back. It gives me pleasure though. If I feed it quality handloads or premium factory ammo. It responds with a boom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . TANGGGGG

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[fletchbutt152]

7.7 Jap

This will have to do for now. I'm gonna see if my Dad can get a couple pictures of her with the jewelry on. This is the picture from the guy I bought it from off gunbroker. Now she wears an old 7x weaver my late Uncle gave to me. With the Norma ammo she shoots 1" groups at 200yrds. Not bad for an old junker. Newer picture to come.

 

[zammyman]

I was hoping to see a picture of a Savage 12 F 6.5 too...

 

[USSR]

Winchester Action
28" fluted Obermeyer AMU contour barrel
McMillan Prone Stock
Williams one-piece steel bottom metal
Jewell trigger
SpeedLock firing pin and spring
Badger 20MOA picatinny rail
TPS tactical rings
Sightron SII 6-24x42 scope
Caliber: 6.5x55
Gunsmith: Terry Cross of KMW
Use: 1,000 yard F Class Rifle



Winchester Action
26" fluted Krieger MTU contour barrel
McMillan A2 Stock
Williams one-piece steel bottom metal
Jewell trigger
SpeedLock firing pin and spring
Badger 20MOA picatinny rail
Badger tactical rings
Leupold 6.5-20x50LR M1 Mildot scope
Caliber: .30-06
Gunsmith: Jack Krieger of Krieger Barrels
Use: 1,000 yard F Class Rifle

FN SPR (Winchester) Action
26" chrome-lined FN SPR barrel
McMillan A5 Stock
Williams one-piece steel bottom metal
Trigger lightened to 3#
Badger 20MOA picatinny rail
Badger tactical rings
Leupold 3.5-10x40LR M3 Mildot scope with Premier Gen. 2 reticle
Caliber: .308
Gunsmith: George Gardner of G.A. Precision
Use: Tactical Rifle

Don

 

[oregonhunter]

Very nice rifles USSR, cant go wrong with a Winchester action.

 

[alemonkey]

Pedersoli 1874 Sharps, .45-70 with a vernier sight. I've only shot it out to 300 meters, but I hope to make it to some 500 meter silhouette matches this summer.

 

[zammyman]

bump- anybody else?

 

[crebralfix]

Shot great out to 1,000 yards at Long Range International's "Long Range Hunting" course

Savage 10FP in 308 Winchester
Harris Bipod
Pride-Fowler Rapid Reticle 3-9x scope (RR800-1)



My spotter's gun...great at 1,000 yards and has a 20 round magazine. PFI scope was removed for some 100 yard work.


Winchester Model 70 with PFI Rapid Reticle in 30-06...another 1,000 yard shooter


An Accuracy International rifle in the foreground


One of these guns is in 338 Lapua and shot an 11" group at 1 mile (at the target on the wall)


This was on the 100 yard range


Tikka T3...another great 1,000 yard shooter. Another PFI Rapid Reticle scope.

 

[JimmAr]

There are better calibers for long range app then the .308 cals.. regardless.. nice rifles gentlemen..

 

[browningguy]

Savage 12 FV in .243, Sharpshooter SUpply LVT stock, Weaver Grand Slam 6.5-20 scope.

 

[alpha6164]

Custom GA Precision .308 Accuracy International 1.5 with 26" Mike Rock 5R barrel, Badger muzzle brake, tune trigger, everything blueprinted and trued, Nightforce 5.5-22x50 NP-R1 scope, Harris swivel bipod

This is a 1/4MOA rifle.

 

[crebralfix]

There may be better calibers than 308 Winchester for long range, but it works.

You don't need an expensive gun and custom mods to play the long range game. My Savage 10FP cost under $600 and the scope was around $500. My gun, out of the box, has a 3 pound trigger and shoots 3/4" at 100 yards in my hands with Federal Gold Medal Match 168 grain 308 Winchester ammo. A better shooter could probably get 1/2 MOA.

I don't even want to know what these cost to get an 11" group at 1 mile:



I suspect the half the value on those tables is worth more than my 401K.

 

[taliv]

hey cerebralfix, nice toys

are those pics from the LongRangeInternational classes?

 

[crebralfix]

Yeah, this was from their Long Range Hunting course. Every one of those guns was able to get center hits on steel at 1,000 yards, assuming the spotter was doing his job. Considering we had FOUR USMC 8541's training us as spotters and shooters, EVERYONE made solid hits on steel from 100-1,000 yards.

In case you missed it, 18"w x 24"h steel looks like this at 1,000 yards:



The man shaped steel targets were at 200 and 300 yards.

 

[zammyman]

There are better calibers for long range app then the .308 cals.. regardless.. nice rifles gentlemen..

I'd agree to a point, but so much of long distance shooting is the shooters capability and experience with that particular gun. When my dad was in nam there were guys with kills at 1200 yards using a 308, not bad for .68 miles with a moving target...

I think a lot of the confusion on long range guns has been pushed into the categories of competition small target grouping versus "killing your target" groupings.

 

[paochow]

Haven't tried it past 300yds yet, but....

DPMS LRT-308 SASS with a Leupold MK4 3.5-10X:



I've shot 1.5" groups at 200yds with cheap Walmart Federal Soft points. Can't wait to get it to a longer range with some match ammo.

 

[dirtyjim]

this is just something i threw together for fun. fn columbian mauser action, finned 7mm-08 barrel from a madsen light machine gun & a home built stock. i still have to finish the stock & paint it then add a scope & mounts. the stock will be painted the same metallic blue as the action.

 

[yongxingfreesty]

200yds only =(