New Long range Record Rifle shot

[Howland937]

If a person that runs a long range shooting school with years of practice and maybe 10's of thousands of rounds practicing took 69 shots to hit the target I have to wonder how long it would take a more average shooter to do it.

I don't see any reason to believe that it would absolutely take an average shooter more attempts, all else being equal. The more rounds fired, the higher probability of scoring a hit. One hit in 69 tries, but nothing dictates that hit can't happen on #4 or #37...or even #1. Beginners luck/fluke, whatever you wanna call it. It does happen. Doesn't mean it's likely, but doesn't mean it can't happen.

The biggest limiting factors here are the availability of (funds for)the equipment used and place where such a shot could be attempted 100% safely... Otherwise we'd see stuff like this every other week.

 

[Varminterror]

I don't see any reason to believe that it would absolutely take an average shooter more attempts, all else being equal.

Directly - the Average Shooter won’t be remotely close to the target on shots like this. It’s not quite as simple as shooting 1000yrds or shooting a mile - ELR shooters like these will have multiple profiles built (adjusted BC’s and velocities) to fit various portions of bullet flight. The average shooter struggles to hold 1moa even with a lot of luck at 1,000yrds, and even with proper coaches, when instructing new shooters or within courses myself, I’ve seen a LOT of guys cross boundaries where they simply can’t find a target any longer - typically driven by getting a few too many yards beyond their transonic transition. Worth mentioning here - ONE click in an optic at 7700 yards is over 2 feet of adjustment - and this target was only about 48” tall. So being wrong by one click would put half of your group high off or low off of the target. How well do you KNOW your trajectory for your load, in ANY environmental condition, to be within 1 click on your waterline at 4000 yards? At 7700 yards? How well do you expect the average shooter to be able to estimate wind over 7700 yards to within 0.2mils on target - OUTSIDE of the supersonic envelope?

In other words - MOST SHOOTERS, even beyond the standard of “the average shooter,” don’t have the skills or backgrounding to put their rain of fire anywhere near a target at 7,700+ yards, not even close enough to get lucky enough to drop one on the steel.

But there IS a world of ELR shooters on this planet, any of which that could, within a few months of planning and ammo acquisition, make a team which delivers upon extending this kind of exhibition record.