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#1 best tip for new shooters trying to get into the long range game!
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<blockquote data-quote="shootski" data-source="post: 1751333" data-attributes="member: 106014"><p>Hi all, I have been reading LRH for at least a year or two and just now decided to post to a shooter who wants advice about getting into LR hunting. My Nickname is shootski and I'm not Polish so that can only mean I do two things that are crazy hard at the same time; Cross Country Ski and Shoot. I agree with most of you on most of the advice above but will add one thing to think about based on my experience over 55 years of shooting. The best way to learn the wind is to use a 10 meter World Class Air Rifle at 50 meters. Use the lightest pellet you can find on a natural range with lots of obstacles (terrain) and you can do it even on light wind days. So why the 10 meter air rifle? Because you will probably never shoot anything more accurate! The wind will move that light pellet around as if you were shooting to 1,000 meters and the TOF is about the same. You can use the typical peep and globe sight that they are normally equiped with or you can mount a scope if that's your bag.</p><p>OBTW, I believe I hunt long range with a .308 or .458 dead soft lead bullets between 110 and 510 grain Quackenbush Outlaw air rifles shooting to 200 meters at subsonic speeds. What do the readers think of/on that? </p><p>If not, I will no longer call myself a long-range shooter.</p><p></p><p>shootski</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="shootski, post: 1751333, member: 106014"] Hi all, I have been reading LRH for at least a year or two and just now decided to post to a shooter who wants advice about getting into LR hunting. My Nickname is shootski and I'm not Polish so that can only mean I do two things that are crazy hard at the same time; Cross Country Ski and Shoot. I agree with most of you on most of the advice above but will add one thing to think about based on my experience over 55 years of shooting. The best way to learn the wind is to use a 10 meter World Class Air Rifle at 50 meters. Use the lightest pellet you can find on a natural range with lots of obstacles (terrain) and you can do it even on light wind days. So why the 10 meter air rifle? Because you will probably never shoot anything more accurate! The wind will move that light pellet around as if you were shooting to 1,000 meters and the TOF is about the same. You can use the typical peep and globe sight that they are normally equiped with or you can mount a scope if that's your bag. OBTW, I believe I hunt long range with a .308 or .458 dead soft lead bullets between 110 and 510 grain Quackenbush Outlaw air rifles shooting to 200 meters at subsonic speeds. What do the readers think of/on that? If not, I will no longer call myself a long-range shooter. shootski [/QUOTE]
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