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The Basics, Starting Out
What made you interested in long range shooting?
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<blockquote data-quote="Quintus" data-source="post: 2405227" data-attributes="member: 67552"><p>I grew up with 'dyed in the wool' duck hunters which I still am. Started that when I was 8 with an old Mosberg bolt 20. By 10 I was wanting to shoot a giant buck like I had seen in the Sports Afield magazines at the barber shop. My dad said if I found a way to by a rifle he would take me deer hunting. At the end of my 11th summer, after mowing yards and tending brick layers I not only had enough for a rifle and scope, but a deer tag for Montana!. I bought the 788 in 243 with a Bushnell 4X and plenty of Winchester 100 grainers. </p><p>My buddy lived on the back side of an old granite quarry. His dad knew the owner of the property and we had free run of the long inactive 16 square miles. we would bring our rifles out to a long load-out field surrounded by mountains of piled granite. We would set targets and practice. The field is about 580 yards long and we would walk our rounds out from near to far. We had no idea how far we were actually shooting, but got pretty consistent center-punching rocks at all distances. We would have contests making bets on called rocks. It never got old and we would laugh and hoot every time we heard that bullet splat come back across the bowl. </p><p>I got my Hunter safety at 12 and went to Montana that fall, 1984. I saw my muley a long way off in the middle of an open pasture. Pops laughed when I laid my rifle on my hat over a rock and got ready to shoot. I pulled the trigger and he humped up and leaned forward and fell on his face. My dad nearly crapped his pants and looked at me like I had two heads. I remember that moment like it was yesterday. I still like to shoot far, but am not in the same rabbit hole alot of you are. 95% of my shooting/practice is 200 to 600 yards.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Quintus, post: 2405227, member: 67552"] I grew up with 'dyed in the wool' duck hunters which I still am. Started that when I was 8 with an old Mosberg bolt 20. By 10 I was wanting to shoot a giant buck like I had seen in the Sports Afield magazines at the barber shop. My dad said if I found a way to by a rifle he would take me deer hunting. At the end of my 11th summer, after mowing yards and tending brick layers I not only had enough for a rifle and scope, but a deer tag for Montana!. I bought the 788 in 243 with a Bushnell 4X and plenty of Winchester 100 grainers. My buddy lived on the back side of an old granite quarry. His dad knew the owner of the property and we had free run of the long inactive 16 square miles. we would bring our rifles out to a long load-out field surrounded by mountains of piled granite. We would set targets and practice. The field is about 580 yards long and we would walk our rounds out from near to far. We had no idea how far we were actually shooting, but got pretty consistent center-punching rocks at all distances. We would have contests making bets on called rocks. It never got old and we would laugh and hoot every time we heard that bullet splat come back across the bowl. I got my Hunter safety at 12 and went to Montana that fall, 1984. I saw my muley a long way off in the middle of an open pasture. Pops laughed when I laid my rifle on my hat over a rock and got ready to shoot. I pulled the trigger and he humped up and leaned forward and fell on his face. My dad nearly crapped his pants and looked at me like I had two heads. I remember that moment like it was yesterday. I still like to shoot far, but am not in the same rabbit hole alot of you are. 95% of my shooting/practice is 200 to 600 yards. [/QUOTE]
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