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New Rifle Recommendations -- Help me!!
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<blockquote data-quote="greenejc" data-source="post: 2306793" data-attributes="member: 60453"><p>I don't know why you think that. They were using the M1 Garand at Camp Perry and hitting at that distance pretty well before they went to Remington and Winchester bolt guns in 300WM around 1958 or so. The matches ranged from 100, 200 and 600 yard matches with open sights to around 800, 900 and 1000 yards for the long range matches with scoped rifles. For that matter, the Creedmoor matches of 1874 and on used tang peep sights and black powder Sharps and Remington Rolling blocks at 800 yards, 900 yards and 1000 yards. The bulls eyes on these targets were either 24" like Camp Perry or 36" I think, while the target was around maybe 10 feet wide and tall. Hathcock actually designed and machined a mount for the receiver on the Ma deuce just for a steady way to mount a 20 power Unertl scope on the .50 he used, and he selected the barrel he used for exceptional first shot accuracy. All this stuff is documented. The Camp Perry 1,000 yard matches have been around for about 120 years in one form or another, and hark back to the Creedmoor matches shot in New York beginning in 1874. Sharps and Remington made special rifles for the shooting team to compete against the Irish team for the first Creedmoor match.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="greenejc, post: 2306793, member: 60453"] I don't know why you think that. They were using the M1 Garand at Camp Perry and hitting at that distance pretty well before they went to Remington and Winchester bolt guns in 300WM around 1958 or so. The matches ranged from 100, 200 and 600 yard matches with open sights to around 800, 900 and 1000 yards for the long range matches with scoped rifles. For that matter, the Creedmoor matches of 1874 and on used tang peep sights and black powder Sharps and Remington Rolling blocks at 800 yards, 900 yards and 1000 yards. The bulls eyes on these targets were either 24" like Camp Perry or 36" I think, while the target was around maybe 10 feet wide and tall. Hathcock actually designed and machined a mount for the receiver on the Ma deuce just for a steady way to mount a 20 power Unertl scope on the .50 he used, and he selected the barrel he used for exceptional first shot accuracy. All this stuff is documented. The Camp Perry 1,000 yard matches have been around for about 120 years in one form or another, and hark back to the Creedmoor matches shot in New York beginning in 1874. Sharps and Remington made special rifles for the shooting team to compete against the Irish team for the first Creedmoor match. [/QUOTE]
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