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The Basics, Starting Out
Just how accurate does a long range hunting rifle need to be?
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<blockquote data-quote="Long Time Long Ranger" data-source="post: 490736" data-attributes="member: 505"><p>The rifle has got to hit the kill area of the game you are hunting at the range you intend to shoot it every shot. I shoot my rifles out to the max range I can consistently hit the kill zone and that is where I call it with that rifle. 100 yards really doesn't mean much. Typically I start shooting targets at a quarter mile and go out from there. Rarely do I shoot closer, everything inside there is a gimme anyway. I just want to know I am on at long range then I know I can get the gimme stuff.</p><p> </p><p>Remember the 100 yard groups don't mean much other than you know if it is in the ballpark. One of my best long range shooters does good to hit .75" at 100 yards but will shoot 5" groups at a half mile. Bullets stabi;ize as you go further down range so you may be 1 moa at 100 and .5 moa at 800. That is bad terminology but what is usually said. Actually the bullet is stable but flies on a circular or eliptical path along an axis. In other words looking at your group the rifle did not sling one bullet left and another right or one high and one low. They are traveling in that circular path and where they impact the target along that path is your group. As the bullet travels downrange the bullet path around this imaginary axis shortens so your groups tighten as you go downrange. I do better describing this like Gus on lonesome dove talking with my hands (great actor). Hard to come up with the words to explain. But the army paid us a lot of money to test this at white sands quite a few years back.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Long Time Long Ranger, post: 490736, member: 505"] The rifle has got to hit the kill area of the game you are hunting at the range you intend to shoot it every shot. I shoot my rifles out to the max range I can consistently hit the kill zone and that is where I call it with that rifle. 100 yards really doesn't mean much. Typically I start shooting targets at a quarter mile and go out from there. Rarely do I shoot closer, everything inside there is a gimme anyway. I just want to know I am on at long range then I know I can get the gimme stuff. Remember the 100 yard groups don't mean much other than you know if it is in the ballpark. One of my best long range shooters does good to hit .75" at 100 yards but will shoot 5" groups at a half mile. Bullets stabi;ize as you go further down range so you may be 1 moa at 100 and .5 moa at 800. That is bad terminology but what is usually said. Actually the bullet is stable but flies on a circular or eliptical path along an axis. In other words looking at your group the rifle did not sling one bullet left and another right or one high and one low. They are traveling in that circular path and where they impact the target along that path is your group. As the bullet travels downrange the bullet path around this imaginary axis shortens so your groups tighten as you go downrange. I do better describing this like Gus on lonesome dove talking with my hands (great actor). Hard to come up with the words to explain. But the army paid us a lot of money to test this at white sands quite a few years back. [/QUOTE]
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