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Best caliber for shooting 500 to 2000 yds?
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<blockquote data-quote="Paladin300" data-source="post: 2118953" data-attributes="member: 115299"><p>So, question? I see the discussion about the amount of travel needed to get to 2000 yards.</p><p></p><p>Full disclosure that is the furthest we have been and only a couple of times. Trying to push it to 2200 (1.25 miles), but finding a place to do it here in Alabama and Tennessee is proving difficult. We have a place to shoot at 1250 and 1500 fairly regularly. 6-8 times a year and shoot to 600 probably once or twice a month. To practice we shoot 22LR at 300 yards.</p><p></p><p>Here's the question? What do you feel like you need to get to 2000 - 2200? ( I think practically speaking 2200 is about the limit for the weekend warrior with standard cartridges and ammo without stepping up to designer bullets and the ubermagnums.) So assuming the 338 Improved is the upper limit. What are we putting on top of it?</p><p></p><p>The goal here is not just to hit the target but to do it consistently. If it takes you more than 5 shot to make contact at that range were you really successful? Once you make contact is it repeatable? Can you do it again and again? One of the ranges we shoot 1250 at if you miss twice you have to go back to 600. Once you check your dope you can try one more time, if you miss your done, if you hit and miss twice your done for the day. Three strikes your out. That would also apply in real world applications or competition. Rarely will you ever get a second or even third shot much less a fourth or fifth. Can you do it cold bore? And what size target are we talking about? For that range 18-24 inches? Can't say that anything bigger would apply as success? Can you? At the end of the day everyone has to determine this for themselves. The same range that won't let you miss more than 3x requires you to hit a 12" plate in order to proceed to the next distance.</p><p>For me I am pretty comfortable to 1500, it is fairly easy with the 338 (I have done it cold bore on an 18" silhouette), 2000 not so much. That 500 yards extra makes a huge difference, like taking a 22 from 300 to 400 or 500.</p><p></p><p>Any how just some ravings of a ballistics nut with a few lose screws!<img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="🤣" title="Rolling on the floor laughing :rofl:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f923.png" data-shortname=":rofl:" /> But really I don't mean to hijack this thread but we've covered the caliber fairly well, something in 338 I think is the consensus. But there is so much more to it than that. Optic set up being one? And what success is being another?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Paladin300, post: 2118953, member: 115299"] So, question? I see the discussion about the amount of travel needed to get to 2000 yards. Full disclosure that is the furthest we have been and only a couple of times. Trying to push it to 2200 (1.25 miles), but finding a place to do it here in Alabama and Tennessee is proving difficult. We have a place to shoot at 1250 and 1500 fairly regularly. 6-8 times a year and shoot to 600 probably once or twice a month. To practice we shoot 22LR at 300 yards. Here’s the question? What do you feel like you need to get to 2000 - 2200? ( I think practically speaking 2200 is about the limit for the weekend warrior with standard cartridges and ammo without stepping up to designer bullets and the ubermagnums.) So assuming the 338 Improved is the upper limit. What are we putting on top of it? The goal here is not just to hit the target but to do it consistently. If it takes you more than 5 shot to make contact at that range were you really successful? Once you make contact is it repeatable? Can you do it again and again? One of the ranges we shoot 1250 at if you miss twice you have to go back to 600. Once you check your dope you can try one more time, if you miss your done, if you hit and miss twice your done for the day. Three strikes your out. That would also apply in real world applications or competition. Rarely will you ever get a second or even third shot much less a fourth or fifth. Can you do it cold bore? And what size target are we talking about? For that range 18-24 inches? Can’t say that anything bigger would apply as success? Can you? At the end of the day everyone has to determine this for themselves. The same range that won’t let you miss more than 3x requires you to hit a 12” plate in order to proceed to the next distance. For me I am pretty comfortable to 1500, it is fairly easy with the 338 (I have done it cold bore on an 18” silhouette), 2000 not so much. That 500 yards extra makes a huge difference, like taking a 22 from 300 to 400 or 500. Any how just some ravings of a ballistics nut with a few lose screws!🤣 But really I don’t mean to hijack this thread but we’ve covered the caliber fairly well, something in 338 I think is the consensus. But there is so much more to it than that. Optic set up being one? And what success is being another? [/QUOTE]
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