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The Basics, Starting Out
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<blockquote data-quote="WildRose" data-source="post: 906483" data-attributes="member: 30902"><p>Well in his defense, if he was Army the "sniper" "back in the day" was the guy who shot the best in the unit and was given a scoped rifle. There wasn't even such a thing as a US Army Sniper School for decades.</p><p></p><p>Installing pillars and bedding the rifle are not all that difficult to do yourself if you are a handy kind of guy. Spend some time on youtube looking around and you'll find a number of pretty good videos on how to do it.</p><p></p><p>As a rule if the rifle will group well at 100yds it will group well out to 1000yds as well with high BC bullets and consistent loads. The biggest problem you get into is what is called "extreme spread" in velocity. If your loads vary by greater than 50fps consistency at long range is going to get progressively more difficult which is why most of us choose to hand load and get very picky about every little detail.</p><p></p><p>Now, out to 600yds, there's a lot more tolerance for error but once you move beyond 600, life starts to get pretty complicated, and if you try to push out farther than that it gets very complicated and the accumulation of tolerances can bite you in the *** in a hurry.</p><p></p><p>Things you'll need to plan on for the future are a good ballistics calculator or app, good reloading set up, and taking and keeping of notes every time you shoot.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="WildRose, post: 906483, member: 30902"] Well in his defense, if he was Army the "sniper" "back in the day" was the guy who shot the best in the unit and was given a scoped rifle. There wasn't even such a thing as a US Army Sniper School for decades. Installing pillars and bedding the rifle are not all that difficult to do yourself if you are a handy kind of guy. Spend some time on youtube looking around and you'll find a number of pretty good videos on how to do it. As a rule if the rifle will group well at 100yds it will group well out to 1000yds as well with high BC bullets and consistent loads. The biggest problem you get into is what is called "extreme spread" in velocity. If your loads vary by greater than 50fps consistency at long range is going to get progressively more difficult which is why most of us choose to hand load and get very picky about every little detail. Now, out to 600yds, there's a lot more tolerance for error but once you move beyond 600, life starts to get pretty complicated, and if you try to push out farther than that it gets very complicated and the accumulation of tolerances can bite you in the *** in a hurry. Things you'll need to plan on for the future are a good ballistics calculator or app, good reloading set up, and taking and keeping of notes every time you shoot. [/QUOTE]
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