Longer range pistol shooting?

[Tilos]

People have been competing/shooting handgun metalic silhouettes for decades, out to 200 meters with revolvers and single shots(TC).

I quit when most of the day was spent waiting to shoot and they modified the targets to fall easier for sub-caliber guns.(7mmTCU)
It may have thinned out enough now to...go, shoot, go home.

 

[KBintheSLC]

My favorite handgun for long range shooting is my Glock 20... especially with the 6" LW barrel on there. The 180g FMJ's loaded to about 1300 fps shoot very flat. Torso-sized steel targets are easily tagged at 150 yards. Even at 200 yards, I can still manage to get around 20% of the shots on target using the proper hold over.

 

[Boberama]

Check out Ignatius Pizza. He'll teach you how to hit at 200 yards in just one week!


Bull.

 

[torrejon224]

I regularlly shoot my M&P 357sig at 100 and 150 yards. I carried a 45 for over thirty years as a LEO and after retirement. After I discovered the 357sig earlier this year my 1911s rarely get shot. Just gotta love the ballistics of the sig and the way it grabs attention when you pull the trigger!!

 

[possum]

i have shot at 50 and 100yds with my xd service model, just to see if one i could do it, and 2 if the gun could. and i have been pretty happy with the results.

 

[kenno]

In my youth, just after the dinosaurs died out, I had a Colt OM Match in 38 spl. I could hit a coke bottle @100 yards from a braced 'Elmer Keith' position, not every time of course but often.
I moved up to the 357 and latter the 44 mag in a Ruger BH 7.5 BBl. I lived near a dry lake bed and set-up various sized cans out to 200 yards then a 50 gallon drum at 300 yards, I actually found that easier to hit as it was a taller target, less hold over error. With the front sight raised I could not see the target but learned to shoot for the space the target occupied, sort of a mental image type thingy. I used different colored nail polish on the blade and I eventually filed the front blade down so it was much narrower as well as filing notches across the face of the blade for hold over marks like Elmer Keith did. I would shoot about 100 rounds a week. Needless to say I cast my own bullets and bought powder in bulk, I had a cheap single stage press that worked great.

 

[rDigital]

At 150 yards dinner plates are in danger I've been able to hit them consistently with a Glock 17/26/27, P229 and a Smith 686.

I'm glad to see that there are many other long distance handgunners here, but 300-500 yards!!! That's amazing!

The most fun I've had was arcing a Jennings .22 into a bowling pin at 100 yards (I have witnesses!). Worst gun ever.

 

[Desertscout]

We do quite a bit of long-range handgun shooting. As mentioned above, we teach a class a couple of time s a year where we have everyone shooting at 200 yards with service-style weapons. We have shot our Glocks out to 500 several times with a decent degree of success.
The quality of the first video below is awful but it pretty well gets the point across. The second video is cell phone video but it's pretty good and shows making hits from both rested and standing positions out to 200 yards with several different Glocks.
I will get another, much better video up after I get through a couple of demonstrations in Vancouver, WA and Grants Pass, OR next month.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGMlJYSX3YM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZ2yMAQ3r6o

 

[Mad Magyar]

Does anyone shoot at longer ranges?

No I do not...If I was a reloader, possibly...I'll leave my comment at that...

 

[gathert]

With my S&W K frame Combat Masterpiece in .38 special with a 4" barrel I can put rounds on target all day long at 100 yards with ease. The gun was made in 1981 and has a very good trigger still. Using reloads with regular lead wadcutters I get a drop of about 1 foot at 100 yards, but they arent loaded for super speed either. Unfortunately for me, the local DNR range officer wont allow pistols under 6" barrels on the 100 yard rifle range.