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Longest shot +1500 yard hunting?
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<blockquote data-quote="Darryl Cassel" data-source="post: 668113" data-attributes="member: 34"><p>To Augustus or anyone else in doubt of long shots.</p><p>I'm not here to argue about shooting at targets or animals or the distance the kills have been made. I'm just stating facts as to what my hunting buddies and I have done in past years. If you cant comprehend the consept of how we do it, I simply don't know what to tell you</p><p></p><p>First of all to familarize you with our equipment and the shots in question.</p><p>The elk kill I made was at 2100 yards not 2980. The 2980 kill was actually 2690 and done by a friend of mine at Williamsport 1000 yd benchrest club. I was not with them at that time.</p><p></p><p>My equipment/rifle is a 338/416 Rigby Improved with a 36 1/2" barrel that sends a 300 gr bullet out the end of the barrel at 3310 FPS. It has a heavy walnut laminated stock and is bench mounted when fired and weighs 60 lbs. It has a custom "Hall" G action topped off with a Bausch and Lomb Balvar 24 scope with Kuharsky rear base giving me 500 1/4MOA clicks. Plenty of clicks to reach 3000 yards if someone can spot the shot at that distance. As you may have guessed, we are prety much stationary all day as our setup is quite heavy.</p><p>My rangefinder is a miltary Russian that reads to 10 miles give or take 5 meters. My hunting partners all have excellent optices to spot the shot before the kill is made. My drops are all figured by the Oehler Ballistics program and I find it to be very accurate</p><p>The energy of the 300 gr bullet retains plenty of energy to kill at distances most people cant comprehend if they never reached out that far or used this type of equipment.. </p><p></p><p>In Colorado and out of a least a dozen elk the "average" distance for the kills was 1350 Yards. The longest being 2100 the shortest being 500 yards with a 7mm sporter on that one.</p><p>In Colorado I did kill a buck in his bed at 1500 yards, one at 1340 yards and two at 1050 yards. </p><p>I was able to kill two woodchucks at 1500 yards on the same day in PA and I was told I got one at 2200 yards in Virginia hunting with an ex military sniper named Vern Harrison. He called a hit but it was late in the evening and we didn't go and check to see if the chuck was at his hole.</p><p>With all the ballistic program information and with plenty of trigger time and good spotters watching your shots and seeing the vapor trail of the bullet going to the target, extreme longrange shots can be made even if you don't think it can be done. There was also a 1700 yard deer kill in Mansfield PA.</p><p>At 72 My eyesight is starting to fail but I'm still shooting 1000 yard silluette matches and having a great time doing so. I have excellent spotters there too.</p><p>Check and see what the military sniper teams are doing with their equipment and the long shots they are making on humans. Keep in mind also that that human target is a 6' tall target and not a 24" kill zone of an elk.</p><p>Thanks for your interest in LR hunting.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Darryl Cassel, post: 668113, member: 34"] To Augustus or anyone else in doubt of long shots. I'm not here to argue about shooting at targets or animals or the distance the kills have been made. I'm just stating facts as to what my hunting buddies and I have done in past years. If you cant comprehend the consept of how we do it, I simply don't know what to tell you First of all to familarize you with our equipment and the shots in question. The elk kill I made was at 2100 yards not 2980. The 2980 kill was actually 2690 and done by a friend of mine at Williamsport 1000 yd benchrest club. I was not with them at that time. My equipment/rifle is a 338/416 Rigby Improved with a 36 1/2" barrel that sends a 300 gr bullet out the end of the barrel at 3310 FPS. It has a heavy walnut laminated stock and is bench mounted when fired and weighs 60 lbs. It has a custom "Hall" G action topped off with a Bausch and Lomb Balvar 24 scope with Kuharsky rear base giving me 500 1/4MOA clicks. Plenty of clicks to reach 3000 yards if someone can spot the shot at that distance. As you may have guessed, we are prety much stationary all day as our setup is quite heavy. My rangefinder is a miltary Russian that reads to 10 miles give or take 5 meters. My hunting partners all have excellent optices to spot the shot before the kill is made. My drops are all figured by the Oehler Ballistics program and I find it to be very accurate The energy of the 300 gr bullet retains plenty of energy to kill at distances most people cant comprehend if they never reached out that far or used this type of equipment.. In Colorado and out of a least a dozen elk the "average" distance for the kills was 1350 Yards. The longest being 2100 the shortest being 500 yards with a 7mm sporter on that one. In Colorado I did kill a buck in his bed at 1500 yards, one at 1340 yards and two at 1050 yards. I was able to kill two woodchucks at 1500 yards on the same day in PA and I was told I got one at 2200 yards in Virginia hunting with an ex military sniper named Vern Harrison. He called a hit but it was late in the evening and we didn't go and check to see if the chuck was at his hole. With all the ballistic program information and with plenty of trigger time and good spotters watching your shots and seeing the vapor trail of the bullet going to the target, extreme longrange shots can be made even if you don't think it can be done. There was also a 1700 yard deer kill in Mansfield PA. At 72 My eyesight is starting to fail but I'm still shooting 1000 yard silluette matches and having a great time doing so. I have excellent spotters there too. Check and see what the military sniper teams are doing with their equipment and the long shots they are making on humans. Keep in mind also that that human target is a 6' tall target and not a 24" kill zone of an elk. Thanks for your interest in LR hunting. [/QUOTE]
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