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The Basics, Starting Out
Things you wished you knew when you started?
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<blockquote data-quote="Greyfox" data-source="post: 1838970" data-attributes="member: 10291"><p>I started long range hunting well over a dozen years ago when the level of available knowledge, information, most importantly, the technology was quite limited compared to today. In addition to the many great points and practices described in this thread, many of which I adopted along the way surely resulted in the consistent mechanical performance of the rifle and cartridge. My LRH performance saw a noted improvement. Some key additions that effected my results were:</p><p>-Once my rifle load met my particular hunting criteria, [ <.5MOA, ES<20FPS, 1000 FPE, 1800FPS, at 1000 yards], I acquired sufficient components of the same lot to last the life if my barrel.</p><p>-I stopped playing musical chairs with my rifles and stuck with one rifle that I learned to shoot effectively under a variety of conditions/positions, and without conscious thought other then the target animal and environment conditions needed to place a killing shot.</p><p>-Given my shots at game could be taken from 150-1000+ yards, the terminal performance of the bullet over this range was crucial. Maxing out the velocity of the cartridge was not always advantageous. Too high a velocity could negatively effect the bullet performance on game at the closer ranges while having only minimal, if any improvement in killing power at the longer ranges. There seems to be a sweet spot in velocity for a given bullet. </p><p>-Wind is THE critical variable. Most all practice time was/is to continuously improving this skill.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Greyfox, post: 1838970, member: 10291"] I started long range hunting well over a dozen years ago when the level of available knowledge, information, most importantly, the technology was quite limited compared to today. In addition to the many great points and practices described in this thread, many of which I adopted along the way surely resulted in the consistent mechanical performance of the rifle and cartridge. My LRH performance saw a noted improvement. Some key additions that effected my results were: -Once my rifle load met my particular hunting criteria, [ <.5MOA, ES<20FPS, 1000 FPE, 1800FPS, at 1000 yards], I acquired sufficient components of the same lot to last the life if my barrel. -I stopped playing musical chairs with my rifles and stuck with one rifle that I learned to shoot effectively under a variety of conditions/positions, and without conscious thought other then the target animal and environment conditions needed to place a killing shot. -Given my shots at game could be taken from 150-1000+ yards, the terminal performance of the bullet over this range was crucial. Maxing out the velocity of the cartridge was not always advantageous. Too high a velocity could negatively effect the bullet performance on game at the closer ranges while having only minimal, if any improvement in killing power at the longer ranges. There seems to be a sweet spot in velocity for a given bullet. -Wind is THE critical variable. Most all practice time was/is to continuously improving this skill. [/QUOTE]
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