Whats the furthest you enjoy shooting with irons

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4-500 yds with my Rolling Block 43 Spanish, 300 with my Custom 38-55, 100 with 38 Special and 44 Special, 200 with 357,41 and 44 mag. I like shooting the big bores because you can see where you missed and correct. Can't do that with the small bores.
 
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At our competitions here in central Texas, rules require iron sights that must be open on top (no peep sights) with a blade front. We shoot at 200 yards at an 8" bullseye with a 3" 10 ring. Two divisions, centerfire and rimfire(22lr only) The guns are all accurate enough to shoot 10s all day, the sights keep ya honest. Centerfire division is usually won with a 10 shot score of 98 -100, rimfire 88-95. Lots of fun!!!!:cool::cool:
 
If you have good eyes and can't seem to enjoy shooting further than 100 yards with irons, make yourself a gong. If you haven't shot a gong with irons at long distances, you don't know what you're missing. A friend of mine hit an 18" disc blade at 700 yards on the 3rd or 4th shot with a mosin, nothing but goofy grins from all of us. Steel gongs make all the difference, with the reward of hitting the target being audible.

Besides, whats the point of shooting at it if you know you're going to hit it? ;)
 
200 Yds. 8 x 13 steel plate matches with the YUGO,Chinese SKS and Mosin M44 it's rather fun and pretty easy after you practice awhile and use some good ammo thats predictable.
 
Many years ago, I got my "leg" on the Distinguished badge shooting a .30-06 Garand with peep sights at 1,000 yards. Fun!

But I made it easy...I lined the top of the front post sight on the bottom of the target frame and the side of the front post with the right side of the target frame, and simply adjusted the sights so the bullets hit the center of the bullseye. For all other ranges, including 600 yd, I used the standard sight picture.

Wish I could still do it...but my old eyes are having trouble lining up those targets and iron sights at different distances clearly!

(But I can still handle a cross hair! I like to shoot my .22 LR Ruger Mk II pistol with 2X scope at 100-yds...get 3" groups.)
 
The range I go to stops at 125yds., That's where I put my bowling pins.

rifles and hand guns, I only own 3 scopes 2 on .22lr, one on a 30.06

the only guns I shoot at 25 yds. are the derringers and the .25acp
 
My range only goes out to 300 yards.We have steel at 100, 200, and 300. I love to hit a chest size gong at 300 with my hardware without legging out there to hang or paste targets. I still like trying to get a decent group on paper at 100 yards.
 
I shoot milsurp, so almost everything i have is open iron sights. I rarely shoot under 100 yards. But since i'm still learning, i have trouble at 200 (but i'm getting better).

Most recently, i put 17 out of 20 rounds on a 14 inch square target at 100 yards standing with a Hakim. It's not competition quality, but i'm really proud of myself:D.
 
I've become hooked on shooting the CAS long range pistol side matches.

Best scoring SA revolver is my 6 1/2 in. Ruger SA in .41 mag loaded down using cast bullets.
 
I haven't done long shooting, only Bullseye up to 50 yards. (I have done a couple of range outings only, shooting at 100 with rifle but it looks the same to me)

I don't get the question. Aren't we supposed to be looking at the front sight only? Don't we just keep the black blur of a target on the sights?

My eyes are pretty good, so I don't know what it is like to not see well. What happens to ours eyes as they get bad? I thought it was front sight only?
 
I don't know the answer to that question. I have never shot in competition past 1000 yards.
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Wisea$$! :D

For me shooting at paper beyond 200 yards (as far as my spotting scope lets me see the holes) is boring. But shooting at a steel target at any range over that is fun, and the further away it is the funner it gets; until I can't hit it any more. ;)
 
I've gotten pretty good with my SKS at 100 yards, iron sights, I can do 5" groups, which I'm fine with. That's about as far out as I want to go with open sights, its a good challenge.:)
 
cavman said:
Aren't we supposed to be looking at the front sight only? Don't we just keep the black blur of a target on the sights?
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If you have difficulty seeing the target at all, blurry or otherwise, you're going to have a hard time getting that front site centered on it.
 
600 yard NRA belly matches with my M1 (See my tagline) ;).

The 10 ring of the NRA MR target (600 yd.) is 12" across (2.0 MOA) and the X ring is 6" across (1.0 MOA).

My last 600 match(s) was at the Planet Matches on the weekend of August 2-3. On the Saturday event (Four 200 pt. Matches = 800 pts) I won the Expert Class and was the High Service Rifle shooter as well. Score 774-24X.

On Sunday I set a new personal best for a single 200 pt. Match.... 199-10X.... also with my M1. This means that all but one shot out of 20 was within 2.0 MOA and fully half were within 1.0 MOA. :D

Best to all,
Swampy

Garands forever
 
Honestly, past 50 yards, I do not do very well with irons. I'd say I "enjoy" shooting them at 25 yards but not much farther past that.

Depends upon the target size, though. I like shootning the silhouettes at longer ranges with irons, *IF* the wind noise and range noise is low enough to where I can hear whether or not I made a hit. Few things please me more than hitting the 200 yard 1/2 size ram with a CCW pistol like a Makarov or Kahr.
 
200 yards with my 03-A3 was a heck of alot of fun using just surplus M2 Ball.
hitting bowling pins at 200 yards is interesting, lots of grazing hits, but hits non-the-less.

Hitting the 8" gong a 200 yards with boring repeatability was nice to do.
I really love that Springfield 1903-A3 :D
 
I do better at the 600 yard High Power matches prone than I do offhand at 200 yards with irons. Says something (bad!) about my shooting abilities. :rolleyes:
 
find something to shoot at that you can easily tell when you hit...

my favorite is to take old laundry detergent jugs and plink them at 100-200 yards sitting on the far edge of a gravel pit. they jump all over hell and back when you hit them, and are sturdy enough that you can hit them with a 30-06 and they puncture but don't fall apart...
 
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