We have gotten off track here. The topic is about Gritters saying that not only is accurate, consistant performance possible at 3000 yards, its possible and attainable at 3600-3700 yards as well.
I have tested only one round that I can honestly say was consistantly accurate at 3000 yards. May sound like I am tooting my own horn but it was the 338 Allen Magnum. BUT, only with the prototype 265 gr AT RBBT from Wildcat bullets loaded to 3550 fps. With their BC in the .960 range, I was able to sustain super sonic velocity past 3000 yards.
In actual paper shooting at 3008 yards, the rifle would hold 1 moa groups for three shot groups, yes, roughly 30".
The game is hard at 1000 yards, take it to 1500 yards and its 10 times as difficult, take it to 2000 yards and multiply the difficulty another 10 times. Anything much past that with conventional rifles is ****in in the wind.
Can you get a hit, certainly. Throw 30 rounds down range and eventually you will get a hit. But what I am referring to is precision accuracy at extreme range, 1 moa or better at +3000 yards.
I have tested pretty much every long range class of rifle that we have all talked about and NONE will sustain consistant accuracy out past 2500 yards and only the very most extreme will get you 2700-2800 yards. Have to get a .8 BC bullet in the 3400 fps range to do that.
Again, no offense about the 2006 long shot of the year, but that is irrelavent to this conversation, which was directed toward the comments made by Gitters in a couple articles in VH magazine.
I made a stink about it to the editor of VH and I see there was no article by Gritters in the last magazine. Not saying its because of me or my comments but it was good to see.
Had I entered my qualifying shot in the year it was taken, your 2006 shot would not have one the LSOY award but that was my fault. I got the 2007 award with a 2370 yard kill. In that case, there were 5 shots fired from start to finish and that was with a rifle that had never been fired past 400 yards, EVER. But staying super sonic to that range helps a great deal for accurate shot placement.
When I first read the specs of the rifle and load used in the 2006 LSOY I was also sceptical, still em. But now that I hear that 30 shots were fired to make the kill explains things alot. Obviously consistancy was lacking at that range with that combo, something that we all knew would be the case.
1.5 moa at 2200 yards is not all that bad but still, its not what I call true precision accuracy but that is I am sure due to the fact that the bullets were dropping out of super sonic velocity.