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What made you interested in long range shooting?
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<blockquote data-quote="Allen Kitts" data-source="post: 2404869" data-attributes="member: 103317"><p>Well as most of you I have hunted since a was a small boy chasing squirrels with my dad in the hardwoods of Kentucky. After I got out of the Navy I moved to Montana and that's where things started to change for me. You can see game along way in Montana. The first year I was eligible to hunt I shot my first bull at approx. 400 yards with my 7 mag and it blew my mind. Mind you not because I wanted to but it was across a canyon and thew was no way to get any closer. I used Kentucky windage, no pun intended, as at that time there were no good over the counter range finders, and it wouldn't have mattered because I couldn't have afforded one anyway. That's when I started looking into larger faster calibers, more expensive optics etc. I went through quite a few different rifles/scope set-ups and then I read about a gun company in Wyoming that made rifles that were guaranteed to shoot to 1000 yards out of the box. I thought, no way could this be true, but after a couple of years of saving and through the good graces of a dear friend, I was lucky enough to come up with the money to get one of those rifles and the rest is history. The guarantee was true as I was hitting steel at 980 yards the very day I picked up the rifle. I have been fortunate enough to have taken a lot of beautiful animals with that rifle over the years. I shot a pig while hunting in California at 567 yards the first year I owned the rifle and none of my friends or the outfitter we were hunting with had ever seen anyone shoot that far with any success. What a great feeling and boy did that make me want more. Quite a few years and quite a few rifles later I am still enthralled with getting it right at 1000 yards. I just love the fact that you have to take your time, read the wind, read the animal, check your range multiple times and make sure that everything is just right in the world before you pull the trigger. Its an art to me and one I take very serious. I have never taken anything at 1000 yards plus but I am slowly approaching that milestone. I took a Blesbuck in South Africa last year at 851 yards and it was an incredible feeling. Someday maybe if all the stars align.</p><p>[ATTACH]330413[/ATTACH][ATTACH]330412[/ATTACH]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Allen Kitts, post: 2404869, member: 103317"] Well as most of you I have hunted since a was a small boy chasing squirrels with my dad in the hardwoods of Kentucky. After I got out of the Navy I moved to Montana and that's where things started to change for me. You can see game along way in Montana. The first year I was eligible to hunt I shot my first bull at approx. 400 yards with my 7 mag and it blew my mind. Mind you not because I wanted to but it was across a canyon and thew was no way to get any closer. I used Kentucky windage, no pun intended, as at that time there were no good over the counter range finders, and it wouldn't have mattered because I couldn't have afforded one anyway. That's when I started looking into larger faster calibers, more expensive optics etc. I went through quite a few different rifles/scope set-ups and then I read about a gun company in Wyoming that made rifles that were guaranteed to shoot to 1000 yards out of the box. I thought, no way could this be true, but after a couple of years of saving and through the good graces of a dear friend, I was lucky enough to come up with the money to get one of those rifles and the rest is history. The guarantee was true as I was hitting steel at 980 yards the very day I picked up the rifle. I have been fortunate enough to have taken a lot of beautiful animals with that rifle over the years. I shot a pig while hunting in California at 567 yards the first year I owned the rifle and none of my friends or the outfitter we were hunting with had ever seen anyone shoot that far with any success. What a great feeling and boy did that make me want more. Quite a few years and quite a few rifles later I am still enthralled with getting it right at 1000 yards. I just love the fact that you have to take your time, read the wind, read the animal, check your range multiple times and make sure that everything is just right in the world before you pull the trigger. Its an art to me and one I take very serious. I have never taken anything at 1000 yards plus but I am slowly approaching that milestone. I took a Blesbuck in South Africa last year at 851 yards and it was an incredible feeling. Someday maybe if all the stars align. [ATTACH alt="California Pig.JPG"]330413[/ATTACH][ATTACH alt="0a75b17a-28ed-4e92-9e4c-0e3bb1519ecf.jpg"]330412[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]
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