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At What Yardage Does Long Range Begin?
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<blockquote data-quote="Wachsmann" data-source="post: 1164422" data-attributes="member: 10429"><p>So here my 2 cents for what its worth. I'm going to say 400 yards because....</p><p>I started with a 30-06 hunting. A lot of people have or something close to this. I don't want to say caliber is not dependent but it is a little for what I'm getting at. Over all a vast majority of factory deer rifles and mangums have about 20 to 30 inches of drop at 400 yards. This can be a definite miss if you are shooting line of site or trying to use some backyard hold over (non calibrated) and yes I am guilty as anyone and have made some good shots like this with cheap equiptment. Maybe should say lucky shots. So like a 308 or a 30-06 zeroed for 200 yrds has about 6 to 10 inches of drop depending on the weight of the bullets. You can usually at 300yds place the cross hairs at the top of the back and pull the trigger and make the shot with ease or shoot for high shoulder and still make it in the boiler room on deer or antelope or such size game. Clean kill. Getting out to the 400 yards using factory ammo you really start to see significant drop and wind can be a factor. Really hard winds can be a factor at 300yrds. I gut shot a deer one time in about 20+ mile hour wind when I was a lot younger and for the life of me I could not figure out what had happen. My 06 was a good 300yrd gun when I was a teenager and in my 20's. I also thought I would never miss at 300 and took a few out to 400. This was before I ever thought about long range and all the factors that come into play. So my point being I think 400yrds where long range starts. This is based on factory equiptment, and factory loads. This can be changed greatly by practice, proofing your ammo(what it is doing at longer ranges), and better optics.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Wachsmann, post: 1164422, member: 10429"] So here my 2 cents for what its worth. I'm going to say 400 yards because.... I started with a 30-06 hunting. A lot of people have or something close to this. I don't want to say caliber is not dependent but it is a little for what I'm getting at. Over all a vast majority of factory deer rifles and mangums have about 20 to 30 inches of drop at 400 yards. This can be a definite miss if you are shooting line of site or trying to use some backyard hold over (non calibrated) and yes I am guilty as anyone and have made some good shots like this with cheap equiptment. Maybe should say lucky shots. So like a 308 or a 30-06 zeroed for 200 yrds has about 6 to 10 inches of drop depending on the weight of the bullets. You can usually at 300yds place the cross hairs at the top of the back and pull the trigger and make the shot with ease or shoot for high shoulder and still make it in the boiler room on deer or antelope or such size game. Clean kill. Getting out to the 400 yards using factory ammo you really start to see significant drop and wind can be a factor. Really hard winds can be a factor at 300yrds. I gut shot a deer one time in about 20+ mile hour wind when I was a lot younger and for the life of me I could not figure out what had happen. My 06 was a good 300yrd gun when I was a teenager and in my 20's. I also thought I would never miss at 300 and took a few out to 400. This was before I ever thought about long range and all the factors that come into play. So my point being I think 400yrds where long range starts. This is based on factory equiptment, and factory loads. This can be changed greatly by practice, proofing your ammo(what it is doing at longer ranges), and better optics. [/QUOTE]
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