69th shot

I once shot a ground squirrel at 225 yds with a 22 rimfire. Only took me 10 shots to get it. Lol. Oh yeah. ..open sights. Unluckiest ground squirrel ever. These guys are amazing. 4.4 miles......how the heck?? Wow. What caliber, cartridge?
 
Pretty good write up. 416 barret.


I'm not a good spectator. That's why I can't go to airports or race tracks.
In my mind, I can do anything better than what im watching.
So upon reading this, I immediately started thinking of a spot I could see 4.5 miles ,,,,,and build a rifle that would do it in far less shots.
 
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Pretty good write up. 416 barret.
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I thought the article was pretty mediocre at best. There is no mention of the cartridge or the bullets in this particular piece except:

Featuring custom parts from around the world and fine details like hand-thrown bullets,
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What are 'hand thrown bullets' anyway?

A few hours later, it was the 69th shot that hit the mark. Austin and Humphries say that while their hit isn't scientifically consistently repeatable,
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You can say that again!

What a waste.

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These types of "records" don't carry much weight with me. Field artillery can hit anything if you give them enough ammo. Even indiscriminate fire with mortars... can eventually land on something.

This is a post I copied from I don't remember where a few days ago, posted by Derek Love:

Glenn Swaggart and I broke a World Record today. I pulled the trigger on my rifle built by Glenn chambered in a Wildcat concept I dreamed up a couple years ago, and Jesse Cook brought to life. Glenn, Steve Ream and I tweaked and perfected our version into what we call the .416STC by Magnolia Precision

During the Spearpoint Ranch ELR Series finale today target 1 was shot from cold bore (no sighters, no rounds down the barrel that day), on camera(shooter and target) and rounds 1-3 had to be shot within 3 minutes to qualify. We did it this morning at 09:10.

2585 Yards(1.468 miles) 36"x 36" target

4 Rounds in a row from Cold Bore Caliber: .416STC Projectile: Cutting Edge 500gr Lazer Gen2 Muzzle Velocity: 2957fps/4ES-1.7SD Elevation: 29.1Mils Time of flight: 4.387 seconds Inches of drop: 2752.04 inches (229.33ft) Remaining velocity at target: 1095fps Remaining Energy at target: 1331ft/lbs

On top of the World record I took 1st in the match and 5th on the season. Thanks Steve Wirth and your wife for the awesome venue and the World class events you guys host.
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Now that is an impressive feat, and a precision rifle record I can actually support.


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These types of "records" don't carry much weight with me. Field artillery can hit anything if you give them enough ammo. Even indiscriminate fire with mortars... can eventually land on something.

This is a post I copied from I don't remember where a few days ago, posted by Derek Love:



Now that is an impressive feat, and a precision rifle record I can actually support.


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It wasn't about 155 mm Howitzers . Why trash someone's hobby ? What does it matter how many shots it took ? Mortars 4.4 miles 🙄
 
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What a joke this is.

All it proves is they they found a bullet and cartridge capable of traveling that far.
 
I think what people are not understanding is how difficult the impact is to make at that range, let alone any elr. Look at a match and number of rounds fired to get any hit. Do the math. It's not impressive on paper but once you get behind the rifle and send a round into the atmosphere you better know your sheet to even get remotely close. It's not my thing, but these teams making this stuff happen are not some internet warriors poking holes in the sky.
 
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I think what people are not understanding is how difficult the impact is to make at that range, let alone any elr. Look at a match and number of rounds fired to get any hit. Do the math. It's not impressive on paper but once you get behind the rifle and send a round into the atmosphere you better know your sheet to even get remotely close. It's not my thing, but these teams making this stuff happen are not some internet warriors poking holes in the sky.
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So let's say I see a rabbit in the garden. I pick up a rock and throw at it... and miss.
I throw another rock, and yet another. Finally after 68 rocks and on the 69th throw I hit the rabbit.
Would you be impressed? (other than the rabbit having nerves of steel)

I don't get it. First shot, yup very impressive. Within 3-4 shots, yes... impressive. Repeat it and I'd call that very impressive.

Hail Mary enough projectiles downrange and something is going to hit eventually, whether it be skill or the wind blowing one into the target.
 
I do shoot ELR matches and stuff like this makes ELR seem laughable.

Hit multiple targets in a match on the clock with only the allowed 3 or 5 shots per target and it's impressive.

You want to see something impressive: Look at what Derek Love did last weekend to set the new cold bore world record by hitting a 36" plate at 2585 yards with his first shot of the day, and then proceeded to hit it 3 more times going 4 impacts in a row. (The record requires 3 impacts from a cold bore)

69 shots to hit something does not set any records in my opinion…it just makes public perception of real ELR matches seem like a joke.

Also FYI some of these matches have a staggering number of impacts. You should look again at score sheets…it ain't like it was 4 years ago…
 

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