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Hard to believe part 2 the answer
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<blockquote data-quote="longestrange" data-source="post: 2090325" data-attributes="member: 75265"><p>Had a single shot 22 rimfire as a kid. Went out shooting marmots, which is about the same as a fat pdog. Elevation was over 5000 feet above sea level, day was warm. Plenty of marmots around and my bro had a similar setup. We used to shoot .22 BB caps and CB caps and shorts and longs and long rifles, depending on our budgets at the moment. Don't remember what we had at the time. We were hiking and took the shots offhand. Iron sights only. Just a side note: shooting a longer cartridge after a box or so of shorter ones resulted in extraction problems. Seems there was a buildup of carbon or something just in front of the case mouth.</p><p>So the longest shot was around 24000 miles to the SW. Time to impact was around a day but since the international date line was in that direction you could hit the critters pretty much when you pulled the trigger. That also cancelled out the coriolis effect.</p><p>The strategy was to turn around and shoot them at about 10 yards to the NE, then brag about the 24K mile shots and hit percentages.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="longestrange, post: 2090325, member: 75265"] Had a single shot 22 rimfire as a kid. Went out shooting marmots, which is about the same as a fat pdog. Elevation was over 5000 feet above sea level, day was warm. Plenty of marmots around and my bro had a similar setup. We used to shoot .22 BB caps and CB caps and shorts and longs and long rifles, depending on our budgets at the moment. Don't remember what we had at the time. We were hiking and took the shots offhand. Iron sights only. Just a side note: shooting a longer cartridge after a box or so of shorter ones resulted in extraction problems. Seems there was a buildup of carbon or something just in front of the case mouth. So the longest shot was around 24000 miles to the SW. Time to impact was around a day but since the international date line was in that direction you could hit the critters pretty much when you pulled the trigger. That also cancelled out the coriolis effect. The strategy was to turn around and shoot them at about 10 yards to the NE, then brag about the 24K mile shots and hit percentages. [/QUOTE]
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